{"id":27927,"date":"2024-07-20T00:59:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T00:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=27927"},"modified":"2024-07-20T00:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T00:59:55","slug":"google-ads-policy-yet-another-barrier-for-people-seeking-abortion-and-contraception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/google-ads-policy-yet-another-barrier-for-people-seeking-abortion-and-contraception\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOGLE ADS POLICY YET ANOTHER BARRIER FOR PEOPLE SEEKING ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/adspolicy\/answer\/14776727?hl=en-AU\"><u>updated health and medicines policy<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;threatens to limit or stop Australian healthcare providers from advertising their abortion and contraception services unless they are certified by a US based, for-profit company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greens Leader in the Senate and spokesperson for women, Senator Larissa Waters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGoogle has a bad habit of overstepping when it comes to Australia\u2019s healthcare regulations. Unlike in the US, abortion and contraception is legal, telehealth is a vital part of our healthcare system, and people don\u2019t need more barriers to information about either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAccess to safe, legal abortion remains a postcode lottery in Australia, with different rules, costs and availability depending on where you live. The last thing we need in Australia is a US based company regulating our access to information about reproductive healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMSI Australia suggests the cost to their organisation would be more than $4700 in registration and annual fees. That money would be much better spent supporting people to access essential reproductive healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAbortion and contraception are legal, basic healthcare services. They should be safe, accessible and freely available everywhere in Australia, including on Google.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s&nbsp;updated health and medicines policy&nbsp;threatens to limit or stop Australian healthcare providers from advertising their abortion and contraception services unless they are certified by a US based, for-profit company.&nbsp; Greens Leader in the Senate and spokesperson for women, Senator Larissa Waters \u201cGoogle has a bad habit of overstepping when it comes to Australia\u2019s healthcare regulations. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/20\/google-ads-policy-yet-another-barrier-for-people-seeking-abortion-and-contraception\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOOGLE ADS POLICY YET ANOTHER BARRIER FOR PEOPLE SEEKING ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27928,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27927\/revisions\/27928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}