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Meta has clarified its policy on discussing the sale of abortion pills on Facebook after the platform removed posts and banned the responsible users.
The Big Tech company explained that it would ban content regarding selling or sharing pills but not information about medication abortions, a clarification that comes after Facebook removed posts discussing the distribution of abortion pills, according to Motherboard. Some users also reported that their accounts had been temporarily banned. This surge in posts arose after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, gift, request or donate pharmaceuticals is not allowed. Content that discusses the affordability and accessibility of prescription medication is allowed,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone said in a Monday tweet. “We’ve discovered some instances of incorrect enforcement and are correcting these.”
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Facebook’s current policies prohibit “attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs.” The only exception to this policy is if the said seller is a “legitimate healthcare e-commerce business.” Meta adopted this policy amid the pandemic as telehealth saw a surge of interest and has changed over time, according to Protocol.
Facebook’s parent company has struggled to deal with the Roe v. Wade ruling on Friday, particularly with how to manage employees’ relationships with the post-Roe America. Meta leadership announced on Friday that employees were not allowed to discuss the abortion ruling, noting that the company had policies that placed “strong guardrails around social, political and sensitive communications.”
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They also pointed to a May 12 memo that, according to a copy acquired by the New York Times, stated that “discussing abortion openly at work has a heightened risk of creating a hostile work environment” and that the company had taken “the position that we would not allow open discussion.”
Meta is also considering its approach to providing employees assistance with getting abortions. The company stated on Friday that it is still considering its policy on the matter due to the “legal complexities involved.”
