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People Are Offended By the Darndest Things... Adoptions

So there's this Amazon Recommends Adoption Over Abortion scandle slowly making its way through the blogosphere (slowly, because it's pretty stupid). Basically, Amazon's search algorithms were recomending "Did you mean adoption?" when people were searching on "abortion". The fact that consumers who search for information on "abortion" also sometimes search for information on "adoption" - plus the similiarities in spelling - was enough to trigger the suggestion. And thus the makings of a pseudo-scandal because some religious official found advocating adoptions instead of abortions "offensive".
Regardless of your views on abortion rights (but not on Roe... no one really thinks that that decision makes sense, right?)... anyway, regardless of your views on abortion rights, if someone is doing research on the abortion debate - is it really "offensive" to point out that adoption is part of that debate? Or even if someone is doing research about acquiring an abortion for themselves or a loved one, is it really offensive to point out the overwhelmingly well-known and obvious fact that adoption is on the spectrum of options that they have?
We only ask because in the last 48-72 hours we've been told that it's "censorship" to point out that accusing a small cabal of Jews of brainwashing Christian evangelicals and undermining US security is potentially offensive.

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