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Pro-life tech leaders court Texas Right to Life after GoDaddy drops domain hosting for whistleblower site

Texas Right to Life was working with pro-life business leaders to transfer its whistleblower site to a new host Saturday, a day after GoDaddy shut it down amid alleged violations of its policy.

The web hosting giant cut service for the whistleblower site, not Texas Right to Life’s main domain, on Friday, alleging that it violated a policy on gathering information without the subject’s consent.

Texas Right to Life set up Prolifewhistleblower.com to help users report violations of Texas’ new heartbeat law, which took effect Wednesday and allows anyone to sue if an abortion is conducted after cardiac activity can be detected. 

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These companies are pushing back against the Texas abortion law

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business

GoDaddy took down a website that allowed people to post tips about possible Texas abortions, in the latest example of businesses pushing back against the state’s new law.

A Texas law that bans abortion providers from carrying out terminations after fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is typically about six weeks into a pregnancy, went into effect this week after the Supreme Court opted not to intervene.

The web hosting service took down the site at about 8 pm Friday, according to Texas Right to Life, the organization that launched the website. GoDaddy did not respond to requests for comment, but said in a tweet Friday that it “informed the website owner yesterday that they have violated GoDaddy’s terms of service and have 24…


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These companies are pushing back against the Texas abortion law

A Texas law that bans abortion providers from carrying out terminations after fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is typically about six weeks into a pregnancy, went into effect this week after the Supreme Court opted not to intervene.
The web hosting service took down the site at about 8 pm Friday, according to Texas Right to Life, the organization that launched the website. GoDaddy did not respond to requests for comment, but said in a tweet Friday that it “informed the website owner yesterday that they have violated GoDaddy’s terms of service and have 24 hours to move to a different provider.”
Explainer: What is the Texas abortion ban and why does it matter?

“We will not be silenced,” Kimberlyn Schwartz, the director of media and communication for Texas Right to Life said in a statement sent to CNN. “If anti-Lifers want to take our website…


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Web host GoDaddy boots Texas Right to Life’s abortion tip site

The website, which was set up to allow people to submit anonymous tips about Texas abortions, was flooded with fake tips before it was taken down.

AUSTIN, Texas — Web hosting company GoDaddy has removed a site set up by Texas Right to Life for users to submit anonymous tips about when the new Texas abortion law is being violated.

The website, prolifewhistleblower.com, aimed to “help enforce the Texas Heartbeat Act,” a law that allows citizens to sue anyone performing or facilitating an abortion after around six weeks into the pregnancy.

According to a release from Texas Right to Life, GoDaddy…


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Texas’ anti-choice whistleblower site is getting bounced from its web-hosting service

AUSTIN, TX - MAY 29: A protester dressed as a handmaiden holds up a sign at a protest outside the Texas state capitol on May 29, 2021 in Austin, Texas. Thousands of protesters came out in response to a new bill outlawing abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected signed on Wednesday by Texas Governor Greg Abbot. (Photo by Sergio Flores/Getty Images)

In case you wanted to prank Texas’ new snitch site for people who don’t care for other people’s private health care decisions, you may want to get in line. As Daily Kos reported on Sept. 2, people across the country are flooding prolifewhistleblower.com with a cornucopia of fake tips and assorted web flotsam. That’s likely why the site’s “rat out your neighbor” function appears to be glitching (as of this writing, anyway).

It’s a shame, because I’d planned to write up a thorough, double-spaced report on every last sperm I’ve squandered over the years — complete with a grainy “last known photo” for each luckless gamete. But, no. TikTokkers and other righteous rapscallions have beat me to it.

As The New York Times reported:

The fictional…


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