Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills

The drug misoprostol sits on a gynecological table at Casa Fusa, a health center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure. — AP

WASHINGTON: Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a US Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure.

Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect on Friday. That’s when the high court overruled Roe v. Wade, its 1973 decision that declared access to abortion a constitutional right.