TikTok bans pro-life Students for Life same day it begged court to overturn its pending U.S. ban

Students for Life of America said TikTok banned the pro-life group Monday night, hours after the Chinese-owned platform begged a federal appeals court to overturn a law that forces ByteDance to sell the company or face a U.S. ban.

"Couldn't find this account," is all SFLA's TikTok page says as of 10:30 p.m. Monday. The last archive Just the News could find is Aug. 22, which said the page had 94,000 followers.

SFLA announced the ban on Facebook, saying it was prompted by social media staffer Lydia Taylor Davis calling a late-term abortion facility, which confirmed to her it does third-trimester abortions. The group asked followers to file reports with TikTok to reinstate the account.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris said during her debate with GOP nominee Donald Trump: "Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion." 

A fact-check by the Washington Examiner said abortion is legal after viability in 11 states after a subjective judgment by the abortion provider or physician that it's needed to save the life or undefined "health" of the mother, and seven states have no gestational limits.

Davis said the TikTok notification claimed her post violated "community guidelines." Instagram hid an earlier SFLA post that the platform called false, in which an abortion clinic told President Kristan Hawkins over the phone that it would give her an abortion on a fetus with Down Syndrome at 34 weeks.

TikTok did not respond to Just the News queries to its media relations team or through the report link shared by SFLA Monday night.