Posted on 12/06/2011 12:57:06 PM PST by adorno
A week ago, bloggers brought to light that Apple’s voice-controlled mobile assistant Siri was delivering distressful omissions when asked about certain kinds of emergency healthcare situations.
Specifically, situations that relate to female sexual emergencies. American bloggers in different locations were asking Siri to help them find abortion clinics, the morning after pill, and rape crisis resources. When Siri was delivering results at all, they were often the offensive opposite.
If you missed the controversy, Siri was branded across news headlines as being “pro-life” (the questionable self-name for anti-abortion crusaders, widely known for their violence, aggression and fanaticism).
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
That looks like an extraneous attack against the pro-life movement, which I took umbrage with.
Don’t sweat it. If you were Violet Blue and were getting passed around from guy to guy like a free crack pipe at an Occupy protest, you’d probably think anyone who wanted your baby to live was ‘well known for violence’ too.
Maybe you just need to ask Siri “Find a place to kill my unborn child.”
Sounds like you know and understand the “lady”.
See, that’s what caused the whole problem to begin with.
All these “women’s health facilities” are trying to cover up what they actually do by using euphemisms like “women’s health centers”, etc,
so there is no way a common search engine can find an “abortion clinic”.
Apparently the writer hasn’t heard the latest in the SIRI saga: the reason that SIRI search engines can’t find “abortion clinics” is because abortion clinics don’t advertise themselves as such. A search engine cannot find a word if it doesn’t appear in the web site.
Disclaimer: I have the information from my daughter who keeps up with pro-life information.
I think people are expecting way to much from a hand held computer.
The BOLD portion above is a bald-faced lie. Prior to Roe v. wade in 1973 abortion laws were a STATE issue and they differed from state to state. Some allowed it, some did not. Violet blue is a liar.
If 'Violet Blue', or anyone else, does not like the way Apple does business, they should refrain from purchasing Apple products.
Violet Blue is a blogger at ZDNet, a CBS affiliate, and will take the opportunity to advance the liberal agenda, in this case, the issue of abortions.
Four states allowed abortion on demand pre-Roe: NY, WA, HI and AK. In 30 states it was illegal under any circumstances. The remaining states (many of them in the south, interestingly) allowed it under certain circumstances: rape, incest, health of the mother, etc.
These are “smart phones” so that means they also have a browser and google - they can find the local abortion clinic.
Maybe, but probably not. She’s just lazy minded. A product of higher education or as I like to call them: manufactured blithering idiots. They are brainwashed.
There was probably a college professor who told her this. There may even have been a whole class that revolved around this ‘fact’.
These days, it takes years to get the stupid out of the head of people who have been to almost any college. Unless they went in there with a body of knowledge and moral underpinnings, they come out drooling morons who spout the party line.
I cant believe I read an article written by some dingbat goth chick.
People like that are obsessed with aborting kids.
Thanks.
My intent was not to enumerate which states did and which did not allow abortions, but to simply disprove the statement “abortion wasn’t an option in the United States until it was legalized in 1973”.
You make a good point.
Now getting an abortion is a “sexual emergency,” eh?
Your statement just made me wonder what the exact situation was in 1973, so I went and looked it up. It was an interesting map, especially, as I said, in that the southern states were more tolerant of abortion than many states we’d consider more socially liberal.
It certainly wasn't a legal option in the 1950s. No state legalized abortion until 1970.
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