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YouTube Bashed Again for Removing Another Pro-Life Video Exposing Abortion
Life News ^ | 7/11/08 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 07/12/2008 10:41:50 AM PDT by wagglebee

Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- The popular video sharing web site YouTube is the subject of criticism again for removing a pro-life video exposing abortion. In this new case, YouTube took down a video from Citizens for a Pro-Life Society showing an abortion center that was investigated for illegally dumping medical waste.

The video also showed the remains of babies who were victimized by abortion and thrown by staff at the Women's Advisory abortion business into the dumpster behind the facility.

The pro-life group obtained the bodies of the babies and gave them a proper burial in a special religious ceremony two weeks ago.

Monica Migliorino Miller, the director of the Detroit-area pro-life group, talked with LifeNews.com about the YouTube problems.

"Today I received notice from YouTube that our video of the Women's Advisory abortion clinic bio-hazard waste and the remains of the aborted babies found in their trash dumpster has been removed," she said.

"This was a movie that CPLS took on the evening of April 12 as we searched through the trash dumpster of the Women's Advisory abortion clinic located in Livonia, Michigan," she added.

Miller told LifeNews.com that YouTube informed her it removed the video because it violated their "community guidelines" and gave no other explanation for taking it down.

"I emailed YouTube and requested an explanation -- my hunch is that the video was removed because it shows the actual remains of the aborted babies just as we took them out of the trash dumpster bags," she said.

Miller also suspects abortion advocates of complaining to YouTube about the content.

The news of the YouTube censorship in this Michigan case follows the restoration of a video from the Population Research Institute exposing a pro-abortion documentary after a wave of complaints from pro-life advocates. http://www.lifenews.com/int813.html

The video shows Carlos Polo, a pro-life advocate in Latin America affiliated with the Population Research Institute, in conversation with pro-abortion activist Eve Reinhardt.

Reinhardt had obtained an interview with Polo, who is based in Peru, by assuring him that she was impartial and balanced.

Polo, however, discovered that she was affiliated very closely with a pro-abortion documentary project called The Decency Gap. He brought his own cameraman to the interview and confronted Reinhardt, accusing her of deliberately misleading him.

Shortly after posting the video, the web site for The Decency Gap vanished, and YouTube removed the video citing vague "terms of use violations" as their reason for the censorship.



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Miller told LifeNews.com that YouTube informed her it removed the video because it violated their "community guidelines" and gave no other explanation for taking it down.

In other words, it violated their agenda.

1 posted on 07/12/2008 10:41:51 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 07/12/2008 10:42:41 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 07/12/2008 10:43:24 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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I’m rabidly anti-abortion, but it sounds like this video was gory, to say the least. I don’t condemn any site for refusing to host graphically offensive material.


4 posted on 07/12/2008 10:57:19 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: wagglebee

Choose your parents carefully, or you too may become medical waste!


5 posted on 07/12/2008 11:01:46 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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6 posted on 07/12/2008 11:04:00 AM PDT by don-o (Have you donated to FR? If not, why not?)
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To: Jedidah

YouTube has many videos of living babies with horrible deformities, gruesome beyond imagining.

There are places in the world where the hospitals don’t have our privacy restrictions, and the suffering of those poor babies has become public domain, a sideshow, and there’s plenty of appetite for it here in the US.

YouTube isn’t pulling those videos as soon as they hear of them.


7 posted on 07/12/2008 11:06:25 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: Jedidah

YouTube has many videos of living babies with horrible deformities, gruesome beyond imagining.

There are places in the world where the hospitals don’t have our privacy restrictions, and the suffering of those poor babies has become public domain, a sideshow, and there’s plenty of appetite for it here in the US.

YouTube isn’t pulling those videos as soon as they hear of them.


8 posted on 07/12/2008 11:06:26 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: Jedidah

YouTube has many videos of living babies with horrible deformities, gruesome beyond imagining.

There are places in the world where the hospitals don’t have our privacy restrictions, and the suffering of those poor babies has become public domain, a sideshow, and there’s plenty of appetite for it here in the US.

YouTube isn’t pulling those videos as soon as they hear of them.


9 posted on 07/12/2008 11:06:27 AM PDT by heartwood
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Finger stutter.


10 posted on 07/12/2008 11:06:57 AM PDT by heartwood
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Well, I look at it this way: abortion is murder.

I don’t think murder victims or corpses are appropriate material for public videos.

And I can’t really understand people who do.


11 posted on 07/12/2008 11:09:37 AM PDT by Jedidah
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. . .my hunch is that the video was removed because it shows the actual remains of the aborted babies just as we took them out of the trash dumpster bags,"

The harsh realities of the abortion industry---a big business, money-making enterprise---are grim and would be unpalatable to probably 98% of the human race if brought face to face visually with the facts. Any pro-abortion advocate knows that the truth must be hidden, for it is their worst enemy.

12 posted on 07/12/2008 11:29:14 AM PDT by Faith
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What i don’t get, is the courts will convict a person for killing a mother, who is pregnant, thus losing the child, for a double murder/homicide. But a fetus, killed during an abortion, is of no consequence. What is wrong with this picture?


13 posted on 07/12/2008 11:32:17 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead, then kill 'em again!)
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I’m rabidly anti-abortion, but it sounds like this video was gory, to say the least. I don’t condemn any site for refusing to host graphically offensive material.

In which case they should clearly state that ALL gore will be removed. Otherwise, there is nothing to stop them from posting a warning that the content of the video is gory.

The reality is that more than 3500 babies are slaughtered EVERY DAY in the United States. These videos ARE NOT showing gore for gratuitous reasons, they are showing what has REALLY HAPPENED to OVER 50 MILLION AMERICANS in the past 35 years.

14 posted on 07/12/2008 11:33:02 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Jedidah

Inappropriate for entertainment, appropriate for education.

I don’t think people will look at the videos of aborted babies for entertainment.

It’s certain from the comments that most of the people who are looking at the pictures of the deformed babies are not earnest medical and nursing students.


15 posted on 07/12/2008 11:37:53 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: Jedidah

Did they ever have videos of graphic islamic violence on our troops?


16 posted on 07/12/2008 11:39:29 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Jedidah
>”I don’t think murder victims or corpses are appropriate material for public videos.”<

-youtube shows all kinds of atrocities. Just do a search for “roadside bombs in Iraq”. They have THOUSANDS of videos posted, showing people getting blown up, with commentary by Muslim jihadist posters screaming “Death to America!”, etc, and applauding the death of our soldiers, whose gruesome deaths are shown, over and over, on youtube videos.

-So, that's not the reason they removed this video.

17 posted on 07/12/2008 11:42:06 AM PDT by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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In other words, it ain't the murder that was offensive but the autopsy.


18 posted on 07/12/2008 12:52:37 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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19 posted on 07/12/2008 1:42:30 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available FREE at KnightsForLife.org)
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I simply cannot relate to people who choose to kill an unborn baby and then toss them out like garbage. obama goes even further of tossing out babies who survived the abortion murder.

Considering these same "people" will hug a tree to keep from cutting it down. Unbelievable.

These are sick people.

20 posted on 07/12/2008 1:52:04 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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