Google urged to stop using gendered language on abortion

Google staffers are calling for the tech giant to offer abortion benefits to contractors, halt donations to anti-abortion politicians and expand travel benefits.

Over 650 employees at Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, signed a petition circulated by the Alphabet Workers Union.

The petition asks Google and Alphabet Inc. to stop using gendered language when providing abortion resources and acknowledge that Roe vs. Wade's overturning affects all genders. The Alphabet Workers Union has made demands on protecting employees from corporate influence. Anti-abortion politicians, the Alphabet Workers Union, are responsible for appointing the Supreme Court Justices who have overturned Roe vs. Wade and continue to infringe on other human rights issues related to voting access and gun control. After the June decision, Google wrote a letter to employees saying that their benefits package allows employees to travel out of state for abortions that may be unavailable to them and that they can apply for permanent relocation without justification. But union leaders say that leaves out contractors and temporary workers who are not given the same benefits.

Petitioners demand that Google protects users from having their data used against them, and address the misleading information, including removing fake results for abortion clinics and boosting privacy controls.

Google will continue to fight police requests for user information that it considers excessive.

In July, Google promised that they would delete the location for users after they visit sensitive locations, like abortion clinics.

Alphabet Workers Union said Alphabet and Google should consider protecting reproductive rights as an existential battle, like COVID -- 19, and convene a task force to oversee changes.