WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers have urged Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Google’s leading search engine, to provide accurate results to people seeking abortion instead of sometimes sending them to “crisis pregnancy centers,” which distance the woman from the procedures.

The request came in a letter, whose top signatories were Senator Mark Warner and Representative Elissa Slotkin, sent to Google on Friday and first reported by Reuters.

The letter was prompted by a study released last week by the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate. The study found that 11% of results for a search for an “abortion clinic near me” or “abortion pill” in some states were for anti-abortion centers.

The research was conducted in 13 states with laws prohibiting abortion if, as expected, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark in 1973 Roe v. Wade decided to make it legal nationwide as soon as this month.

Google declined to comment on the letter to Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai, but said about the report: “We’re always looking for ways to improve our results to help people find what they’re looking for, or understand what they may not get what they are looking for. “

The letter was signed by 14 senators and seven members of the U.S. House of Representatives. All are Democrats.

The pregnancy crisis centers, which have existed in one form or another for many years, are highlighting disagreements in the United States about the right to terminate a pregnancy. Some of the centers have been accused of giving women inaccurate information about their pregnancy, which could jeopardize their access to abortion.

“Google should not display fake anti -abortion clinics or crisis pregnancy centers,” lawmakers wrote. “If Google should continue to display these deceptive results … the results should, at a minimum, be appropriately labeled,” they wrote.

Google deals with other health concerns differently. Searches about suicide or sexual assault top the curated list of resources and trusted sources.

The research team also found that in the states it studied 28% of Google Ads were for anti-abortion centers, as well as 37% of results on Google Maps. The letter said some of the centers had disclaimers but not all.

Reporting by Diane Bartz; Edited by Jonathan Oatis and Daniel Wallis

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