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.
In other words, it violated their agenda.
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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.
Choose your parents carefully, or you too may become medical waste!
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Did they ever have videos of graphic islamic violence on our troops?
-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.
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Considering these same "people" will hug a tree to keep from cutting it down. Unbelievable.
These are sick people.
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