Description: Google Search reportedly returned fewer abortion clinics for searches from poorer and rural areas, particularly ones with Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed women in need of abortion services and women having unexpected or crisis pregnancies.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
400
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-02-23
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
arxiv.org · 2022
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Among the myriad barriers to abortion access, crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) pose an additional difficulty by targeting women with unexpected or "crisis" pregnancies in order to dissuade them from the procedure. Web search engines may prov…
Variants
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