Remember the porn google bombing experiment?

And yeah it’s still working – I get more hits on those pages than anything else. Thousands every day. Pathetic, really…

But I only mention this as a segue into my real topic here, which is one of much more concern and hopefully not as controversial even to those who do not identify as radical feminists who might come across this.

For personal health reasons I won’t go into I was looking up some information of a female reproductive nature on the web the past few days, to see if I’m having some sort of hypochondriac concern or if I ought to drag myself to the doctor (something I loathe doing for a number of reasons). I am, of course, reasonably well-educated about my specifically female parts, and about the lying rhetoric put out by anti-abortionists meant to confuse those who don’t have the luck of having a nurse for a mother who at least had actual, factual medical books in the home where I grew up telling me how said parts work.

So imagine my ever-increasing disgust when the first entire page of results I got were to useless trash like “yahoo answers” in which other people are invited to share their misinformation with someone asking questions, and… very, very cleverly disguised anti-abortion sites.

Sites that say nothing about God or Jesus when you look at them, sites that look very professionally done, sites that take a sympathetic and calming tone and list a lot of factual information in and about utter bullshit lines such as “ectopic pregnancy risk factors include having one or more induced abortions” and “some women may not wish to risk the abortion causing effects of the pill and the IUD”.

Scare sites about the more unpopular choices women make about their own personal reproductive health are in the top of search engines now. How do the top two links on google when you type in “pregnancy symptoms” just happen to be well crafted anti-abortion websites?

I’m afraid they’ve learned how to use the internet. It was bound to filter down to their pointy little brains eventually.

Fortunately, there is nothing they can do on the web that we can’t do as well. So I’m asking for your help.

Not right at the moment, but in the next few days, I’m going to put together a post of actual, scientific medical information about some basic female reproductive system things and link extensively to sites that discuss WITHOUT ANTI-ABORTION BIAS regarding women’s options for birth control (including abortion, which *is* birth control, no matter how politicians wish to create some sort of rhetorical wall between it and other forms of birth control). I invite you all to copy this post or link to it or create your own similar posts, and link to each other.

Let’s try to push the misinformation at least a little further down the page of results, right?

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