Google Employees Demand Privacy for Abortion Research, Want to Stop Ads for Anti-Abortion “Clinics”

We speak with one of more than 650 workers calling on Google's parent company, Alphabet, to protect the location and browsing history of people searching for information about abortion. A petition led by Alphabet's workers' union also calls on the company to block ads that deceptively direct users to crisis pregnancy centers, a tactic used by anti-abortion activists to encourage patients to discourage them from resorting to abortion. /"Systems like Google, which know everything about you, can now be used against you," says Alejandra Beatty, technical program manager at Verily, Alphabet's healthcare subsidiary, and head of the Southwest section of the Alphabet workers union. She says organizers are also asking Google to expand its abortion benefits — including relocation assistance for employees hoping to move to states where abortion is not criminalized, as well as fees of travel and health care for any out-of-state abortion procedure — to contractors who make up about half of the company's workforce.

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