Earlier today, shocking video was released that shows Planned Parenthood’s medical director bragging about the harvest and sale of aborted baby organs and body parts. The news took social media by storm, as people began furiously tweeting about and sharing the horrifying story online.
It appears, however, that social media giant Facebook is not a fan of the viral spread of the story. According to Russell Moore, a top official with the Southern Baptist Convention, Facebook is preventing his organization from sharing the story via Facebook:
Dear @Facebook, what is "abusive" about protesting Planned Parenthood's human trafficking? pic.twitter.com/8mX7R5IQzi
Russell Moore (@drmoore) July 14, 2015
Moore was not the only individual prevented from sharing news of Planned Parenthood’s atrocities:
For the first time ever I have been censored by @facebook. I shared @drmoore's post about Planned Parenthood. https://t.co/dPvUv2PtfB
Matthew Hawkins ن (@mthawk) July 14, 2015
Facebook is blocking content that shows Planned Parenthood trafficking in body parts. http://t.co/7bxu92WgpT
Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 14, 2015
Facebook’s censorship of Moore’s post is especially curious, since the only “offensive” aspect of Moore’s post is the very procedure he’s describing: the deliberate murder of a healthy unborn baby in order to harvest its body parts and sell them for profit. There is no profanity. There is no graphic imagery. Yet for some reason Facebook decided that the information was not fit to be posted or shared.
This isn’t the first time Facebook has marked completely above-board content as “offensive” and blocked it from distribution. In fact, the same thing happened to The Federalist earlier this year. An article by a combat veteran about the absurdity of “trigger warnings” was blocked by Facebook because it was…triggering:
This, via @Jose_Galvan, is kind of hilarious. A story on triggers is labeled triggering, therefore blocked. pic.twitter.com/p3FXaUk3V6
Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) March 26, 2015
In one sense, Facebook is absolutely correct: there is nothing unoffensive about an organization that chops up babies and sells their parts for cash. That practice offends anyone with a conscience. The solution, however, is not to prevent people from sharing information about that abhorrent practice.
The solution is to prevent the practice itself.
UPDATE: According to Moore, Facebook has removed its block and is now allowing access to his organization’s post about Planned Parenthood’s unborn baby organ harvesting scheme
Facebook is now allowing the article to post. Thank you @facebook.
Russell Moore (@drmoore) July 14, 2015
