The abortion industry’s newest addition is Charley, an AI chatbot created by former Planned Parenthood executives, and designed to increase access to abortion following the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Planned Parenthood’s former president Cecile Richards teamed up with abortion activist groups to create Charley in order to sell abortion to women through a chatbot – which is incapable of offering true support to a woman or girl who is may be in distress, may have suffered a sexual assault, or may simply be in need of compassion and guidance.
Live Action’s Sami Parker decided to try out Charley to see what advice it gives to vulnerable women and girls facing a difficult situation while pregnant. She discovered that Charley will not actually offer any support, but will help women and girls access illegal abortion drugs, lie to their doctor about having taken illegal abortion pills when they experience complications, find funding to travel out of state for abortions, and avoid parental notification laws.
In a video for Live Action, Parker explained: “It’s supposed to be the ChatGPT of abortion. On it, you can find the closest abortion facility to you as well as how to commit the crime of obtaining illegal abortion pills. It also tells children – minors – how to get a judicial bypass so their parents don’t know about the abortion that they’re trying to get.”
Charley asks for the user’s location and informs them that even if they live in a pro-life state, they can access abortion pills, albeit illegally, which, said Parker, “is an irresponsible and dangerous thing to tell women that you supposedly care so much about.”
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Research has shown that six percent of women who took the abortion pill required a visit to urgent care or an emergency room for complications. In fact, the abortion pill has been found to be four times more dangerous for women than a first trimester surgical abortion. In addition, if a woman is experiencing an ectopic pregnancy that has not been diagnosed and takes the abortion pill, which she accessed without seeing a doctor, she is at risk of major complications including hemorrhage and death. If she is further along in her pregnancy than she realizes, she is also at a greater risk of incomplete abortion which can cause infection and death.
“And again, this app tells minors how to obtain this dangerous drug and their parents will have no idea that they’re taking it,” said Parker.
Charley also provides no counseling to women, fails to ask the user’s birthdate or age, and offers no alternatives to abortion. It even goes as far as to put up a warning box, telling women and girls to stay away from pro-life pregnancy centers, which exist to help women and girls confidently choose life for their babies by counseling them, helping them advance their education, helping them access health care, providing them with material baby goods, and even securing safe housing, childcare, and transportation.
The only choice this chatbot cares to share with women, it seems, is abortion.
The abortion industry claims to care about women, but is now handing off some of its major responsibilities – like reporting suspected child rape – and putting women into the hands of a chatbot. Charley is incapable of compassion, introspective thought, reasoning, or offering counsel. It knows only what it is programmed to do: sell abortion.
