*UPDATE* Abor­tion-Fight­ing Group Abo­li­tion­ists Ris­ing Gets Banned from Tik­Tok — Account Rein­stat­ed!

Ear­ly Mon­day Jan­u­ary 8th, Chris­t­ian abor­tion abo­li­tion group Abo­li­tion­ists Ris­ing (AR) report­ed on X that they have been banned from the Tik­Tok plat­form. The ban is alleged­ly in response to “mul­ti­ple pol­i­cy vio­la­tions” that AR com­mit­ted. What those vio­la­tions are remains a mys­tery, as the group has got­ten lit­tle in the way of answers to that ques­tion.

AR has explod­ed in pop­u­lar­i­ty recent­ly, going from rel­a­tive obscu­ri­ty a year ago to sur­pass­ing 200,000 sub­scribers on YouTube. Their uncom­pro­mis­ing mes­sage of abol­ish­ing, crim­i­nal­iz­ing, and stig­ma­tiz­ing abor­tion has been a bea­con of light in the midst of a world filled with those who would mur­der our unborn neigh­bors, as well as the apa­thet­ic major­i­ty who dis­like abor­tion to some extent, but would do noth­ing to stop it from hap­pen­ing.

Despite the increased sup­port AR has expe­ri­enced as of late, they have been can­celled by Tik­Tok, sad­ly but unsur­pris­ing­ly, as Tik­Tok has been noto­ri­ous for cen­sor­ing con­tent that goes against its val­ues. Yet we are still left with the burn­ing ques­tion: which of AR’s videos caused TikTok’s ban­ning? AR’s fol­low-up Tweet gives us some insight:

Thus, we know one of the rea­sons AR got banned was for point­ing out the fact that most slave abo­li­tion­ists, like most abor­tion abo­li­tion­ists today, were Bible-believ­ing, uncom­pro­mis­ing Chris­tians who believed that African slaves (much like the unborn) are equal to all oth­er men as image-bear­ers of God, deserv­ing of equal pro­tec­tion under the law. In a world that has for­got­ten the mean­ing of jus­tice, we at EWTC News are thank­ful for AR’s faith­ful­ness to Jesus Christ and the gospel.

If you would like to con­test the ban­ning of Abo­li­tion­ists Ris­ing on Tik­Tok, here are the instruc­tions for how to do so.

Update: On 1/17/24 Tik­Tok rein­stat­ed their account!