16 AGs slam YouTube for adding 'objectively untruthful' context disclaimer on abortion video

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A group of Republican attorneys general are demanding that YouTube remove a "misleading" context disclaimer on a video posted by a pro-life group warning about chemical abortions.

In a letter sent Monday to Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube, which is owned by Google, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird along with 15 of her GOP colleagues criticized the platform for adding "objectively untruthful" context notes to certain videos, and demanded the company immediately remove or correct a misleading "information panel" attached to a video posted by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

That video referenced is of a woman "describing her excruciating experience of inducing a chemical abortion at home alone, without a doctor or nurse present."

"Your bias against pro-life and pro-woman messages is un-American; inconsistent with the liberties protected by the First Amendment; and, in this case, illegal. It must stop," the letter says.

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The "context" note posted by YouTube states that "abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It uses medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus. The procedure is done by a licensed healthcare professional."

The AGs say that the last sentence of the notice is "both false and misleading."

"It