Anne,I don't know if your post refers to my comment.
If this is the case I would say your choice was justified of course.I wish you well.

Piero, Savona, Italy

I don't agree with it, but it is a personal view as I had to have an abortion for serious medical reasons and I have children to think about, if I had not had the abortion they would be motherless right now. When you have no other choice, it is hard enough to carry on without PL's in your face.

Anne, Nottingham,

Leila.
I'm against abortion excepting a few special cases because it's a death penalty against an innocent baby.At the same time I'm pro death penalty against culprits of horrendous crimes.
NRA?I like to shoot at shooting-range and I could fire against a threat,never against an innocent.So logical

Piero, Savona, Italy

It's a very weird thing that these people who call themselves 'pro-life' are often sport hunters and are usually 'pro-war' as well. They are seriously deranged in their thought process. Palin, who rides in a helicopter shooting wolves in Alaska for sport, claims to respect life. Disgusting people!

K.K. Morris, Seattle, USA

Riddle me this: how can a "pro-lifer" like Sarah Palin be an enthusiastic fan of killing creatures?

Anyhoo, hurray for Firefox and Adblock. I don't have to suffer pro-life ads or pro-choice ads anyway!

M. R., Stockport, UK

My biggest problem with the pro-life stance is the premise that a choice is worth more than a life.

Pro-life - Put your life first
Pro-choice - put the innocent party first

Jamie, Worthing, UK

Leila, there is no apparent irony. Pro-choicers do not insist that all pregnant women abort. They do insist that women should have the right to choose.

Pro-lifers, on the other hand, would seek to remove or seriously curtail that right, denying hte woman in question the same scope of choice.

Cameron, London,

Gwilym I wonder if you are celibate or are managing difficult meds over years and years.Women have to manage fertility for 20 to 30 years with imperfect methods available to them.If you have ever had sex with a woman you have created risk for her.If every pregnancy went to term we'd be overrun

Petra, Bristol, UK

excellent...google cannot discrinate against pro-lifers.

Chris, London,

Dan is right. Nature aborts 1 in 4 pregnancies anyway. Very early pregnancies are just a few cells which is what a pill would remove.The pill would abort before one would even know if nature would anyway.Such civilization killing anti everyone sentimentality from the science refusing pro lifers.

Jules, Aberdeen, UK

'Get on with your lives, and let others do the same.' (L.Long). Precisely. And that, my friend, is exactly what abortion does not permit.

Gwilym Davies, London, United Kingdom

I find it irronic that pro-aborts always call themselves pro-choice but hate people who are pro-life, if you were pro-choice why do you hate pro-lifers choice of life?

The truth will always conquer.

Diana, St. Charles, United Sates

I find it ironic that the same party that promotes pro-life also promotes less financial assistance to unwed mothers, no national healthcare plan, pro death penalty, pro NRA and less tax breaks to the people who need them.

Leila, Orlando, USA

I don't think its up to anyone but the parents of a "pre-born" child/embryo/clutchion of cells to decide on whether it should be kept.
Likewise a company should be able to decide on which clients it can refuse.

HG, Bristol, UK

Pro lifers talkin about equality?Well the right to choose gives real equality.Never mind ya crusade to distress women comsidering termination.Banning abortion.Banning choice.Thats the agenda.God/Tooth Fairy belivers-i happy u have found a coping mechanism but please keep yer chants to yourselves x

headley, oxford, uk

To Dan in London: You were once a "clutchion of cells" your self. You were allowed the opportunity to continue to grow, be born, and live. Unborn babies can't fight for their own lives, we have to protect them.

John, Dallas, USA

If they don't want to run certain ads, who is the government to make them? IF you own a business you should be able to advertise for who you want and hire/fire who you want to. Otherwise, why start a business?

Phil Hubbard, Northfield, NH, USA

This article isn't about abortion, it's about equality of advertising opportunity, let's keep to the topic shall we?

In any topic, it is quite right that both sides have the opportunity to advertise on a "neutral" plane such as Google.

The ruling is therefore good and correct.

Laura Roberts, London, UK

Can the people of God-fearing-mid-state-town USA understand one thing, in most cases the 'pre-born baby' you talk about is a clutchion of cells (you loose more cells pricking your finger).

Maybe you should forcus your energys on the 'born babies' of America who live in near poverty.

Dan, London, England

Meh, I think any company should have the right to refuse the rental of ITS ad space.
Additionally these aren't really 'advertisements' they are more like 'propaganda'...designed to guilt, as they sell nothing...except perhaps feelings of shock and shame, a practice perfected by the church ages ago.

Dick William, Hazard County, US of A

I'm not Anti-Abortion
I'm Pro-Life

See how easy it is? Shorter too.

Folsom George, Folsom, USA

George Orwell sure had things figured out; should've listened to him.

David, Wake Forest, NC, USA

This is such an emotional issue, as it should be. Concerning Google, this is a free market issue. BUT, why would an ad giant like Google risk even the appearance of trying to stifle the choice of someone wanting to advertise unless..... it was the product of some political motivation!

Rob, Charlotte, USA

It is choice that is the issue. Do I have to spell it out for you zealots? Religion doesn't offer a choice. You should ask yourselfs why you feel so strongly about choice. Is it because you never had one? Indoctrinated from childhood perhaps. Thinking is so important!

Johan, Stockholm, Sweden

Let me ask one question from each side of this:
1.Why does the headling refer to pro-life groups as anti-abortion? Do they ever refer to pro-choice groups as anti-life?
2.Although I am anti-abortion, I recognize Google as a private enterprise. It should be able to reject any advertisers it wants.

Kurtiss, Concord, USA

My stance is based on nothing but pure moral grounds as a human being blessed with reason and intelligence. I am not a religious nutter, Im a fully paid up member of Darwins theory. But 47 million abortions in the US since 1972 . I could never condone such huge scale mass genocide.

robert, Aberden, UK

"unbelievable...people think it's okay for Google to allow advertising on one side...and not another"

Google isn't the govt. so by definition cannot censor. It's a private company & should have the right to reject anyone it wants. I am pro-life but also pro-capitalism. Advertise elsewhere.

Kurtiss, Concord, USA

There's little point arguing... because one hand of the argument believes that life's worth comes from the brain and the other side believes that life's worth comes from the soul.
Never the twain shall meet and never the twain shall understand. Which is a real shame.

Ed, London,

"a free speech issue."? Ok, I happen to believe and would like to communicate that Religion as a whole is a waste of time and the God Botherers of the world should let people make their own minds up about issues such as Abortion. Hmmm wonder if I will be able to put that on Google?

Craig T, London, UK

Allowing abortion has sent a message that it's ok to kill babies. This is why so many more babies are being thrown in the trash and left to die. No one has the right to kill. How can you say that the death penalty is inhuman yet killing an innocent baby is ok. Hypocrate!

Andi, Huntington Beach, USA

The usual blend of idealogues repeating their doctrine. Nobody likes abortion, but it's here and it's legal. You don't like it? DON'T HAVE ONE! Thankfully, we live in a world that adjusts to the pragmatic, and abortion is a product of that process. Get on with your lives, and let others do the same.

L.Long, London,

Young mum's, unplanned pregnancies etc are still frowned upon and abortions are easily carried out.Adoption should be much more widely advertised as a solution to unwanted pregnancy instead of being a last resort for pregnancies too far gone.ADOPTION is what should be promoted, not religious opinion

Lucy, Midlands, England

Wake up please, if there was no legal abortions availiable it would simply mean more back street abortions. Do we want to go back to that? I don´t neccesarily agree with abortion, but it is better done in the right environment. That is the end of the argument.

dave, london, uk

Every 5 years is not often compared to how many unloved children are brought into this world. Pro-life campaigners never stop telling other people how to run other peoples lives. Google is a business that makes business decisions. If you dont like it, vote with your feet.

Pete, london, UK

to Suzy, UK
Before abortion, men DID have to take responisibility for their actions. Thanks to all the pro-abortion "feminists", however, those men now get to say -"Hey, your body, your choice. See ya."

John, Conventry, USA

Well that's me changing my search engine - which is a shame as google really is very good.

It doesn't matter how AVOIDABLE abortions are, and I certaintly never want to have one. The point is that I object to religious nutters and other do-gooders telling me what to do. Mind your own business

Spike, High Wycombe, Bucks

How sanctimonious some of you are, telling people to take responsibility for their actions. What you actually mean is that women must take responsibility for both parties actions - don't lecture us until there is a law in place that makes MEN take responsibilty for their part.

Suzy, UK - thankfully,

To Johan from Sweden: Anit-abortion folks find the issue of choice threatening since it results in the intentional murder of a human life. Do you support my choice to terminate your life? Any child's life is part of my worldly responsibiliby. Pro-life folks don't equate with the pro-death squads.

Joe, Helena MT, USA

Google also has the right to free speech. Supreme Court ruled that the right to speak includes the right not to be forced to speak against your beliefs. (NH cannot require "Live Free or Die" on your plates.) Google should not be forced to accept this advertising. I am pro life but pro business too.

Kurtiss, Concord, USA

How completely ridiculous. These people should keep their opinions to themselves. Who on earth would make their potentially life-changing decision to keep their baby, rather than get an abortion, based on a stupid advert on google? I think that mistakes happen and its a "womans right to choose."

Samantha , London, England

Any of you peope ever stop to think that every 5 years God tries to create a future doctor who could cure cancer, HIV, or any of many other diseases which kill your loved ones every day but that fetus is aborted opver and over again?

Eric, new york, usa

The religious right should do more to take care of these unwanted babies that they want so badly to be born. What about cases of rape, incest? Let's just have 'em all!

Jeff, Sacramento / CA, USA

The basic premises is, Is this a human life? If it is then it is sure murder. Biologically it is a living organism of the Homo sapiens sapiens family. So unless you want to quantify some type of soul or existential awakening to being human, it is murder.

Mike, NJ, USA

Why do religious groups feel they have the greater authority to tell women what to do with their bodies? It's no one's choice but the woman's, and ignorant, idealistic, Catholic men should have no say in the matter.

Simon, London,

To all you zealots. Is the reason you find a choice so threatening that you never had one. How could a random womans body be any of your business. BTW the slavery argument is fallacious since it is all based in your warped concept of life. Funny however that pro life also is pro death sentence.

Johan, Stockholm, Sweden

After carrying a baby, watching scans, heartbeat at 11 wks, others' heartbreak at miscarriage, pro-choice is pretty callous. Add freely available contraception 90+% reliable - even for teenagers - morning after pill, the majority of abortions for personal economics are AVOIDABLE.

isabella, london,

Please do a follow-up article and let us know which search engines have not censored searches on the terms "abortion" and "abortion help". We who can identify infanticide in spite of the euphemisms used by abortion promoters would like to avoid Google.

Alan Myers, Houston, United States

Does Google allow pro-sanity adverts ?
I dont want anyone elses imaginary friend making moral judgements on my decisions.

Michael, London, UK

Not everything legal are right and not everything that is right are legal. Abortion is legal but its not necessarily right. Killing is right only in self defense. How can a baby be a threat to anyone? One can not mistaken between right and responsibility. People, wake up before it too late.

AsianDude, New Orleans,

Let's call a spade a spade, You say 'Pro Life" proponents should be called 'Anti Choice"? Then let's call the so-called "Pro Choice" proponents "Anti Life" / 'Pro Death". A woman does have the right to choose--the right to choose to have sex without contraception. The baby has the right to live

April, Centreville, USA

yes, we women prefer an act that transforms us into the equivalent of a rental car. Just use us, vacuum us out, and use us again..... Sandra, atlanta, usa

Yes some of us prefer not to be turned into an incubator against our wishes. Against abortion? Don't have one. But that's your choice not mine

Emma, Brussels,

Against murder? Then don't commit one.

But, keep your idealistic views away from the rest who don't foloow [sic] or care to follow your beliefs.

Practice what YOU preach and let others get on with their lives. Murder (of fetuses) is legal, and that is all that matters.

S.Short, London,

Anything political should probably be banned. I'm disappointed that anti-abortists are getting their way but it is isn't because I think what they stand for is wrong, it's the worrying way in which they claim to be right when they publicise bad science and incorrect, emotive info to vunerable girls.

rebecca, kettering, uk

I promise that GOD will have the final say into the abortion issue being legal or not legal, and I promise that GOD's law will show that it is basically MURDER!

John, London, UK

Umm, hey S. Long...I'm going to use your own words...

Against peopele who are against abortion. Then don't be one.

But keep your idealistic view away from the rest who don't follow or care to follow your beliefs.

It's funny how intolerant you people who espouse tolerance really are.

Randall C Bray, Copley, USA

"Practice what YOU preach and let others get on with their lives. Abortion is legal, and that is all that matters.

S.Long, London, "

Exactly! Stay within the law.... Marijuana use? Send them to prison. It is illegal, and that is all that matters.

CC

CapedConservative, Cape Coral, FL, USA

"Abortion is legal, and that is all that matters" - S Long, London

So was slavery at one stage - look what christian 'fundamentalism' did to that. This is a welcome change in policy which will encourage a greater understanding of the issues in this controversial subject.

Simon, Birmingham, Britain

For the person saying 'Aganist Abortion? Then don't have one' -you could replace that with 'Against slavery? Then don't have one' as it, too, was legal and questioned the humanness of an entire group of people, just as abortion does. Killing a child in utero is not a choice - it's murder.

Artgal, Tucson, USA

"The women are HUMAN BEINGS with all the same rights as OTHER human beings"
This sums it all up."Proabortionists" call themselves "pro-choice" and don't like to be called "pro-abortion".Life is life.You get pregnant, there are consequences.You can dice it anyway you want, it's still murder.

DaveR, Indianapolis, USA

Against abortion? Then don't have one.

But, keep your idealistic views away from the rest who don't foloow or care to follow your beliefs.

Practice what YOU preach and let others get on with their lives. Abortion is legal, and that is all that matters.

S.Long, London,

"But on Google's Web site--that is, on Google's property--whose rights are more important? The owner's, or the guest's?"

If you're paying for an advert, then you're a customer: not a guest.

h, Oxford, UK

In reply to Groose, Chicago - Abortion is not a human rights issue as a person is not classed as a human being until they are born - Human Rights Act 1998

Morgan, Croydon, Uk

Scott from the UK - It is a bridge too far to assume that everybody who is doing a web search on abortion is vulnerable, 15 years old, and pregnant.

Would it be right for a web search for "religion" to be met with advertisements from churches?

Bill, Boston, MA, USA

Wow! A mention of abortion and the Americans pour in!

Thank God you are here to give your views.

Google should be allowed to deal with who ever they wish. If they find it hard to reconcile there corporate values with pro-life groups they should be allowed to take action accordingly.

Dan, Bristol, UK

Sure, having an abortion is a tough decision to make. With that said, its a shame the baby has no say in the matter. I saw a lady on the news last night who survived her mother's attempt to abort her in a 3rd tri-abortion. Sometimes we forget there are humans on both sides of the situation

Bill, Atlanta, US

Every morning I get up, make coffee and check out the google news page. If there's a pro-Obama story in the news, it's plastered all over their home page. If there's a pro-McCain story, I have to type it in their search box to find it it. It's a lousy way to start the day.

Kathy, Elburn, USA

Google has never stopped 'pro-life' sites appearing when searching for abortion, just ads that are pro-life that could be upsetting or distressing for someone making a very difficult decision.
Anyone who believes abortion is "easy" is naive in the extreme, yes facts are needed, but just facts,

AK, Pig Hill,

... and not any moralising.
Personally I could never abort but I know people who have, it wasn't easy or fun and it was something they thought long and hard about. All this hysteria and accusations of "killing an innocent human" dont help. Christianity is about tolerance and love so show some!

AK, Pig Hill ,

I switched to http://www.goodsearch.com/ a penny goes to a charity for every search.

Sean, MD, USA

Fine - as long as advertising standards are strictly upheld - these advertisers should expect to be fined if they present false informations just the same as snake oil vendors would be.

carly, Leeds, UK

Protecting the lives of unborn children is in no way "intolerant" or "fanatical." It is noble and important. But on Google's Web site--that is, on Google's property--whose rights are more important? The owner's, or the guest's? Forced adverts are not freedom. I'm grateful to be an American.

Gary S., Virginia, USA

And so, denying a preborn baby his right to life without due process is okay in the mind of proabotionists, but protecting the rights of the preborn is considered intolerant?

Bob, Medford, Oregon, USA

No one has dominion over their own bodies! Drugs are illegal, euthiasia is illegal, drunkenness is illegal in public, etc. Wake up. What grows in the womb of a preganant woman? Answer that. What is a fetus but another word for an early stage of HUMAN? Tumors don't have their own blood type.

doug, fl, us

I'm an anti-theist who considers abortion to be plain old murder; a human who has committed no capital crime is killed during an abortion. Committing or supporting murder is evil, and Google's avowed policy is "Do No Evil". It's simple logic, really.

Mark L. Fergerson, Auburn, USA

You raise a good point my friend. But a right to life means that regardless of humanitarian intentions, it is still not up to you to decide when another 's life may be extinguished. It should never be up to any one person.

Ed, Austin, Texas

Google is becoming a threat to us all. They are the new thought police. They have our files, our search histories, our IP numbers. They know what we think and where we live. The are George Orwell's worst nightmare.

kevin, cedar falls, iowa, usq

We are HIV Campground Project and have campouts for people with HIV. Google won't let us have an Adword account citing we are deemed unacceptable! I think businesses need to adapt to the changing world and what was once a taboo might not be anymore!

www.hiv-campground-project.com

Jeff, Chicago, USA

this is a bizzare tactic. If they really wanted to advocate for other "options", why not encourage adoption agencies to by ad space? Abortion clinics are actually advertising a service- the Christian institute is just advertising a value. like allowing PETA to advertise when someone googles "meat".

ph, ny,

To my mind this isn't about abortion per se, but about people having the right to choose who they do business with.

Suppose you run a printing business and someone asks you to print a leaflet you find offensive or expresses views you disagree with. Should you be forced to print it anyway?

Ed Bullen, Melbourne, Australia

If Google has chosen to remain a private company, they would have had a leg to stand on. But since they went public, they have no choice because obviously pro-life investors hold Google stock in their portfolios, and have should have a say how the company sells advertising.

Scott Hicks, Northfield, NJ, United States

It is ironic that Google, who pride itself on it's business practice and search technology on mass input and hierarchal search decided to manually stop a single message.
The question is not should Google be sue to take in a advertiser. The real question is can Google discriminate.

John, New York, USA

If you used Firefox and AdBlock, you wouldn't have to worry about that mess. I don't even know what Google Ads look like.

Allie, Texas, USA

If you're "pro-choice", you resent that some you call "anti-choice" would deny you a ONE PARTICULAR choice. Yet if you exercise that choice and choose abortion, all future choices have thus been denied to that child. The only consistent choice that isn't a contradiction is to choose NOT to abort.

Jack, Springfield, VA,

"Pro-choice.?" Give me a break, As one who does a lot of peaceful sidewalk counseling in front of abortion clinics, those so-called "pro-choicers" are nothing about Pro-choice. Pro-choicer's are some of the most intolerant anti-choice persons I've ever had the displeasure of meeting.

g, Temecula, USa

They are PRO_ LIFE people!

John, Baraboo, wi

A level playing field is a good idea, how about abortion clinics put up advertisements in the church group department.

Funny so many men whining about women not choosing life when they themselves don't can't get pregnant. Until they can they should have no say in it.

Clarese Portofino, albany, usa

Well Channe, it's not really YOUR body. Only 50% of your DNA is present in the baby's body,so you're only half the story. Beyond that, the baby's body is "walled off" from your body by the womb,a membrane that separates your body from the baby's body- otherwise your body would reject it.

Mike, Vancouver,

This is a truly shocking and revealing story. I will never support google again. How? I was thinking about buying the Android phone. I will no longer consider it. and... I will never do a click through from google again. That way they make no money from me.

Patrick, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

If a woman has another body growing inside her body and looks up abortion, she should definitely be presented with the truth. Abortion advocates present the truth as they see it, pro- life advocates should be able to do the same.

Kris, Macon, USA

Google lost their ability of free speech when they folded to china's demands.

josh, ohio, usa

abortion is murder

al, Hankinson,

the only option other than to keep or terminate is adoption.... and how many kids have no home stuck in orphanages, care homes etc where they are just a number? Stuck in limbo until a family takes them in.. how many reach 18 before this happens? sometimes that can cause more hurt and pain

steph , birmingham, uk

Well, Nate, you seem to forget that this is not happening in the US, but in the UK. They have a whole different set of standards over there. Not that I don't applaud Google's action. This decision furthers public debate and actually helps further the cause of free speech.

Will, Tucson, USA

that's good news !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A7tftOfLdg

rich, pittsburgh, usa

To Groose, Chicago, Yes, this is a HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE. But you forget the most important thing.......Babies are humans, and abortion is one of the worst crimes against humanity.

JM, Virginia, USA

" abortion treatment clinics"? - Orwell could not have put it better.

James, Illinois, usa

"Btw-- note how most of the Christian pro-lifers are men with no chance of getting pregnant."

yes, we women prefer an act that transforms us into the equivalent of a rental car. Just use us, vacuum us out, and use us again..... We are so...so... liberated!!!

Sandra, atlanta, usa

Mr. Paul Downes,
How easily you speak of taking another human life, and not wanting to be bothered by the sanctimony of those who find it morally reprehensible. This is how slavery survived for so long. Exactly the same justifications and moral relativism as that which support killing a child.

Doug E, Jacksonville,FL, USA

Matt, Atlanta
This is not about freedom of speech but a product/service is being denied based on a customer's particular moral, political,racial or religious persuasion while welcoming opposing views. If you think private entities are not *obligated* to serve everyone fairly, go study law.

DJ, Auckland, New Zealand

If someone is "pro-choice", then that implies that there are options available. Otherwise, what exactly would you be "choosing?"

Isn't it wise, if you are indeed "pro-choice", to give someone information on the options available from which they can choose?

Steve, Chicago, US

It's good that Google is allowing these ads. If one claims to be pro "choice," doesn't he/she at least want this to be an educated "choice?"

Don, New York, USA

Hmmmm.... I wonder if they'll open up to publishing the mountains of published scientific papers written over the past several decades that conclusive show solar activity, not humans, are responsible for what little beneficial climate warming we've experienced over this last century? Naw.

John A. Jauregui, Garden Valley, USA

Even if you support choice, I say people need to be making an educated decision. Here's the reality, kids get pregnant, kids get scared and do what youth do...run, avoid and take the "easy way out" and get it done a week later. This is not an educated process and it IS what happens to us..and me

Stevie, Portland,

Stop preventing the education process and stop acting like abortion is no big deal. No matter what you believe there are very real consequences to it. You get pregnant, your fun-loving-party life as a 21yo flashes before your eyes and you make a VERY knee jerk, hidden choice out of fear.

Stevie, Portland,

Just an agnostic pointing out that you don't have to be religious to think that one human being does not have the right to choose to kill another, as that would undermine any concept of human rights. The anti-abortion cause is essentially left wing. It's to the left's shame that they won't see that.

P Williams, London, UK

anyone who says they are on the "right" and "prolife" or "anti abortion" and in the same breath says that google shouldn't be made to run both ads is either lying or not at all reflective of the facts. do you really want a one perspective internet? i sure don't... thumbs up to the C. Institute.

Christy, Chicago, USA

Glad I've got a programme that blocks all ads on a page, to stop these sanctimonious idiots getting through.

Paul Downes, Milton Keynes, UK

It's about time. Some people evidently were afraid of free speech.

Once that egg is fertilized, it's a human being. It's that simple. To be pro-abortion is to be anti human rights.

John Karpiscak, Fredericksburg, USA/ Virginia

it's unbelievable that people think it's okay for Google to allow advertising on one side of an issue and not another.... It's "freedom of speech for me, not for thee", as Nat Hentoff wrote in his excellent book of that name. It's scary that Americans believe in suppressing other viewpoints.

bruce, LA, CA

Abortion is NOT a religious issue. It is a HUMAN RIGHTS issue. The women are HUMAN BEINGS with all the same rights as OTHER human beings. Those who DENY any human being the right to FREEDOM are guilty of a crime against humanity. It's as simple as that. Religion doesn't enter into it!

Groose, Chicago,

What is an "abortion treatment clinic"? Since when is a baby a disease?
Thank the Founding Fathers for having the wisdom of insisting on a Bill of Rights in our constitution. That First Amendment thing comes in handy sometimes. Oh, I meant the "Framers"..... wouldn't want to offend anyone.

Michael, Concord, United States

Btw-- note how most of the Christian pro-lifers are men with no chance of getting pregnant.

Groose, Chicago,

I applaud Google's decision, but the courts should not be able to decide on this issue

Google is a private business, not a public service

Free speech means government can't stop you from expressing an opinion vocally or in print; not that private entities are obligated to do business with you

matt, Atlanta,

Erin from Canada, There are families across this globe who go all the way to China and Russia to adopt children so you make a pointless argument.

Mark, Hometown, USA

So Google is not above the law..... Finally some accountability.

Brock, Dallas, US

Google capitulated to the demands of intolerant and fanatical religious groups not because they 'care' about free speach. Google cares about the bottom line. I just wish that protecting the rights of women all over the world to have dominion over their own bodies would have been more important.

Channe, Sherman Oaks, USA

Erin, I'm not able to take in unwanted kids, but my wife's sister is in Foster Care in Tennessee and regularly receives unwanted children into her home. She and her husband have adopted five beautiful children into their lives in addition to their three natural daughters. OK? Enough for you?

Bob, Hiram, The United States of America

It seems to me that Christians and other religious groups crying guilt and "SHAME" as one poster so eloquently put it is no different than the Global Warmers doing the exact same thing. If Google has to bow to the laws of China and sacrifice dissidents, they should bow to the law of Free Speech...

Michael, Atlanta,

Furthermore, advertisements on your "property" (I guess he meant his computer) are no different than advertisements on your radio and television. This ain't about pro or anti choice...it's about free speech, equality and fairness. Both sides deserve to be heard, whether you agree with them or not.

Michael, Atlanta,

I am anti-abortion and I applaud Google’s decision to “level the playing field.”

However, I do not think that Google should be legally required to run "balanced" ads. That seems like a violation of the First Amendment.

Eric, Manhattan, US

What's the obsession with killing the unborn? What ever happened to personal responsibility, and minding your own business? If you don't want kids then stop the selfish sexual practices, and respect those who don't believe in killing for convenience. What a corrupted society we have become.

james, st. pete, fl, USA

I am of the right and am pro-life. This isn't about free speech. One does not have a right to use my property as a stage for his politcal speech. Google has the right to choose how to hun its business. Nazis and Bolsheviks used the courts to force private biz and citizens to obey their will.

Jack, Oklahoma, USA

I'm surprised the secularists don't find their hair raised by this sort of thing. When corporate policy decides free speech, what becomes next - African Americans, Irish people, Muslims, or even smokers/non-smokers or people who protest inhuman acts in other countries? Look at this logically.

Jack, Portland, United States

-Makes you wonder how many women have "googled" a search for abortion services. Sad, how shallow we a've become instead of searching out wise counsel from faith, friends and family, one would look to google for an answer. --

Mike L, Federal Way WA, USA

The people who are opposed to this use of Google ads apparently have no clue how they actually work - at least that's how it appears, based on the arguments presented. Those ads will certainly waste no more time than the marketing ads which try to fool you into thinking they are 'informative'.

Beez, Woodbridge, US

Scott (UK),
So, you are troubled only the abortionist side you agree with will no longer be the only search that comes up on Google, petrified that anyone making such a momentous decision will be informed of the options?
Interesting that you consider the options something to feel guilty about.

Scott (US), New Castle, IN, U.S.

Well, Erin, we adopted two of the "unwanted" from state foster care here in WA state. -And you, Erin in Canada, what have you done? Plus, we are raising our three natural children to not farm themselves out in the fields of passion and to make wise choices! That OK for you?

Mike L, Federal Way WA, USA

"So when people go looking for help, instead they'll be faced with adverts from religious people trying to take advantage of their vulnerable time to guilt them to adhere to their will."

So when someone looks for help the only otion they should be allowed to see is abortion?

Harry, Oshkosh, USA

I am surprised that the fact that a corporation is regulating free speech is so unimportant to some people, even those who choose to support abortion. The fact is, that whenever a corporation decides what is free speech, and what is "offensive", any group is fair game if people let it happen.

Jack, Portland, United States

Scott, UK - What is it about any group, religious or not, offering to "help" someone who is unsure about killing their baby to find an alternative that is so offensive to you? Are abortion supporters that offended when a child can be spared and adopted to a loving family instead of being killed?

Mark, Hometown, USA

it is not ads they want to buy, it is an 'adblock' from which to judge and point and scream 'SHAME'
there is no product for purchase, only faulty judgment.
pitiful

Dick William, seattle, US of A

So as a free speech issue, hasn't the Christian group impugned Google's right to free speech in choosing before to not run the advertisements? Should not Google have the right to say no to any ideological group they feel might upset their clients or hurt their business if they so choose?

Nate, Baton Rouge,

You know what you have the right to choose as a woman and a man at all times ( except for rape which could include incest). to have sex or not. if you engage in it without protection you should face the risks. drunk driving, stealing drug use. that was your free choice. live with the consequence

Mark t. Davies, Ft. Worth, Texas

I must have been asleep during this whole ordeal.. I had no idea that Google had done this.. Oh well, guess I'll just have to boycot them now

Mary P, Savannah, USA

This is not what is intended with the push to re-establish the Fairness Doctrine in the US, which is an attempt by liberals to sqelch conservative free speech.

Ironic that the tables are turned and the lessons of free speech are brought home to liberals.

regis, Savannah, Ga USA,

All I have to ask theses people is "Who is PRO-ABORTION" and what will you and your "ANTI_CHOICERS" do to help all the children that are un-wanted and not being taken care of

Erin, Fort McMurray, Canada

But that's what religious groups have always done Scott, taking advantage of people when they're vulnerable.That's what they do :o)

Google say "Don't be evil". Evil isn't destroying "a group of cells". It's bringing a child into a world where it can't be nurtured and loved.

Ian, Sheffield, England

If only Ann Dunham had an abortion, she wouldn't have ruined her life.

After all what did her only son do?

Just go to Law School, graduate, unlike algore, Get elected to the U.S. Senate, and now is running for President.

How many would honestly say, that she ruined her life?

Dave Jones, Orangevale, CA, U.S.A.

Abortion is NOT a religious issue. It is a HUMAN RIGHTS issue. The unborn are HUMAN BEINGS with all the same rights as OTHER human beings. Those who DENY any human being the right to LIVE are guilty of a crime against humanity. It's as simple as that. Religion doesn't enter into it.

Sean, Orlando , Florida

Scott, uk - go ahead an put up pro-abortion adds under church group searches. It would unite the church groups into more vigilant action, and perhaps help them think about the issue more holistically. Not a bad idea.

Scott, Seattle,

That's right Scott. We evil religious people are always wanting people to take responsibility for their actions. Oooh what a mean concept. Shame on us.

Roger, Oklahoma City, usa

I wasn't aware anti-abortion groups weren't allowed to do this.

I'm disappointed that Google doesn't believe in free speech

mark, Laguna Niguel, USA

It must distress Google greatly to be told they must allow alternative viewpoints to be heard. How will we ever become a totalitarian society if all voices are permitted.

Professor Whit, Philadelphia PA, USA

It's a question of balance. Abortion isn't the only option for an unplanned pregnancy.

Derek, Taunton, UK

Google have jumped the couch.

Alex Amith, Lancaster, UK

If I search "abortion" and only get abortion web postings, why can't I also get pro-life web postings? I am sure that Google owners lean politically left which again proves that people on the left are the ones who want to stop free speech and equal freedom for all. See what happened in the UK!

ylem, Missoula, USA

The only one vulnerable is the baby that is being murdered. The culture of death especially in the US and UK shows the shallowness of the common culture.

johnny, Glockshire,

At least the veil of "choice" is removed when it can be clearly seen that "pro-choice" people only want one choice to be available - abortion. Bravo for the Christian Institute keeping free speech "free".

Martin Bennett, Midlothian, USA

Oh yes, terrible Christians manipulating people through guilt! Curious that I never seem to hear of the guilt that so, so many women feel after they have abortions— that follows them for the rest of their lives.

Horrible religions. Atheism is so much better.

Gregory Scott, Houston, Texas

Thank you Google...I do not see why a "mistaken" pregancy should result in the killing of a developing child...no one can predict how influential that child might become...jim g

jimgalt, Indianapolis, United States

Liberals are all for free speech - as long as it is THEIR free speech!

Bob, Hiram, The United States of America

We should purge ourselves of the "Free speech is OK as long as you agree with me" mentality. Talking or shouting down those we disagree with only hides peoples true feelings about a subject. We should applaud Google for lifting this hateful practice.

Larry, St. Louis, MO, USA

What would Jesus do?

John, North Haven, USA

This illustrates the problems that will arise if google is successful in establishing a near-monopoly. They have had a far-left bias since their inception, demonstrated many times. We would not tolerate a single newspaper or TV network, why should we allow a single search engine/internet ad agency?

Kevin Finnerty, Atlanta, USA

Talk about 'Taboos'. The day the BBC/ITV broadcast live the entire graphic process of having an abortion - including the guilt that goes with (having killed someone or killed off a 'group of cells' as some people call it) will be the day the legal limit argument is irrelevent.

Simon, York, England

So when people go looking for help, instead they'll be faced with adverts from religious people trying to take advantage of their vulnerable time to guilt them to adhere to their will.

I'm sure church groups would protest if abortion clinics put adverts up when people searched for church groups.

Scott, uk,