Fri Sep 29, 2023 – 3:22 pm EDT
AUSTIN (LifeSiteNews) – Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday that he is bringing a lawsuit against business review platform Yelp for adding “inaccurate and misleading language” about pro-life crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in violation of the Lone Star State’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
The openly pro-abortion platform has “appended language to all pregnancy resource center Yelp pages, indicating that those pages ‘typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite,’” according to a press release from Paxton’s office. “That disclaimer is misleading and often untrue because pregnancy resource centers frequently do provide medical services with licensed medical professionals onsite. Moreover, when informed by pregnancy resource centers that this statement was untrue, Yelp left up the misleading disclaimer on those centers’ Yelp pages until reproached by Attorney General Paxton earlier this year.”
“Yelp cannot mislead and deceive the public simply because the company disagrees with our state’s abortion laws,” said Paxton. “Major companies cannot abuse their platforms and influence to control consumers’ behavior, especially on sensitive health issues like pregnancy and abortion.”
A Yelp spokesperson gave a response to Fox News summarizing the
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