Firebombed anti-abortion group asks attorneys general to keep vow to protect them from censorship

The New York-based anti-abortion group whose office was firebombed this summer compared their struggles to the Holocaust while urging attorneys general on Wednesday to follow through on their promise to protect such organizations from online censorship.

Following a series of attacks on anti-abortion groups after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, 17 state attorneys general sent a letter threatening to open an anti-trust investigation into Google if the platform were to censor searches for anti-abortion pregnancy centers.

CompassCare, whose Buffalo, New York, medical office was firebombed in June, said that starting last month, Google and Yelp began "defaming and censoring pro-life pregnancy centers through misleading consumer warnings as well as wiping them off the map."

At the same time, Google gave free advertising to Planned Parenthood by making it the top search result for any key word relating to abortion, the group said.

CompassCare is urging the attorneys general to carry out an antitrust investigation as threatened.

The public statement from the group Wednesday concluded with a quote from its CEO, the Rev. Jim Harden, comparing the treatment of anti-abortion groups to Kristallnacht, one of the first major events in the Holocaust in which the Nazi party and German civilians killed Jews and destroyed Jewish homes and businesses.

"Big tech conspiring with the political elite to silence any who differ with their ideology is a classic fascist move," Harden said. "If a benevolent goal like that is a threat to those in power, what kind of mania is driving them? This is truly the pro-abortion Kristallnacht."