iPhone users beware: in a Siri-aided world you better not find yourself with an unwanted pregnancy as Siri won’t help you find a clinic to help you get rid of it. According to a story  by Megan Carpentier posted on rawstory.com, “it’s an experience that’s being replicated by women around the country: despite plentiful online information about actual places to get an abortion, Siri doesn’t seem to provide it.” Instead, Siri will anti-abortion help and crisis centers, if she/it provides any information at all.

In one of my classes this term we’ve discussed (at least twice and in no actual detail) the ideologies behind technologies that are sometimes manifested through use but otherwise go unregarded. We all seem to think that technology is an ideologically-free zone when in fact, under even minimal scrutiny and use, it reveals blatant ideas as to how and what end-users should be reading/thinking/doing, living our lives.

And yet, while Siri may not be able to help you get an abortion, she/it will help you find all sorts of things, including:

• hospitals to go to if you’ve had an erection lasting more than five hours;
• where to score marijuana;
• who to contact if you have a hamster stuck in your rectum;
• where to get an allegedly-free blow job (same place where you get help with the hamster)

You can read Carpentier’s full story here: “Then things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion”