Meta platforms censored a video by pro-Life activist Lila Rose when she called out a content creator celebrating the atrocities of abortion.
Live Action founder and president Lila Rose shared a video on her social media channels reacting to a video of a woman celebrating her plan to have an abortion. The video also included an animation of an abortion and graphic images of aborted fetal remains. Meta hid the video, labeling it “sensitive content” but censored it inconsistently across Facebook and Instagram.
“Big Tech companies, like much of society today, disfavor traditional, natural law principles. It’s that simple,” said MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris. “Meta claims that it wants ‘people to be able to talk openly about the issues that matter’ and that its platforms will allow ‘newsworthy’ content to remain visible if it ‘is in the public interest.’ That the killing of an unborn human through abortion would not meet this bar of acceptability for newsworthiness is beyond the pale.”
Rose played a video of a woman showing off her pregnant belly with a text overlay that read, “abortion is tomorrow at 1:40.”
Rose then reacted to the video, condemning the culture of death that it promotes. “The fact that you can be pregnant with a baby and dance around on TikTok bragging about how you are going to murder the baby the next day, and that this can literally be entertainment online for other people,” she said. “This is why we need to make abortion illegal. Period. This is the society that we are living in, and it’s a place that we can change if we’re willing to stand up and say enough is enough. Ban abortion now.”
During her commentary, Rose’s video featured an animation of a second-trimester abortion on the screen, followed by images of the remains of five aborted babies that were found dumped outside an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. in 2022. Images of these babies have been repeatedly censored in the past by other platforms.
Rose’s video was published on both Facebook and Instagram and was censored by both platforms. The video was covered with a sensitive content interstitial on Instagram Reels and on Facebook Stories. However, the same video on Rose’s Facebook page was not censored.
Big Tech platforms continue to censor content that exposes the atrocities of the abortion industry, a pattern that predates the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the legality of abortion back to the states.
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