Android App Iris Says Abortion is Wrong, Quotes the Bible
Submitted by Michael Allen on Feb 8, 2012
A few months ago, iPhone users discovered that the voice-activated assistant Siri app was giving only pro-life information to women about emergency contraception and abortion services.
Now, another app 'Iris', for Verizon’s Android, is also giving pro-life info and quoting the bible (see below).
Iris, which is 'Siri' spelled backwards, has been downloaded over 1 million times and is powered by ChaCha, which bills itself as the Internet’s “leading answers service with more than a billion questions answered."
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I downloaded Iris... actually cool to have this.
I have an update for this article:
Apparently Iris is now much less ideological than when this story was posted.
Q: Are you pro choice? A: I value human life wholeheartedly, I believe all people are unique, special, and deserve a chance to live and to be happy. I also believe though that if a baby is being brought into the world into a very detrimental and negative circumstance then why make a baby suffer at your faults? This is highly debatable.
Q: Is abortion wrong? A: Some people believe abortion is wrong because all human life is sacred. Others argue that it is wrong to bring an unwanted child into a harsh world, or that 'life' doesn't begin at conception, or that that other considerations are also important. There is no one simple answer.
I like the update.