According to Apple, Siri on the iPhone 4S can help you get things done. But in reality, the digital assistant will only you help you get things done that she deems morally sound. And oddly enough, pursuit of marijuana and dumping a dead body are endeavors that she permits, though getting an abortion is not.

When a sophomore asked for Siri’s help in locating an abortion clinic, “She directed me to abortion [alternatives] in St. Louis but stated that it was a clinic, when in fact it was Birthright St. Louis, a clinic that helps women find positive solutions to avoid abortions.”

The program’s response to why Siri is against abortion is, “I just am.” If you ask Siri where you can obtain emergency contraception, she will give you a definition—though it seems unlikely that you would ask for emergency contraception without knowing what it is.

There is no lack of abortion resources in St. Louis—one of the three St. Louis Planned Parenthood clinics is less than five miles away in the nearby Central West End. Siri gives similar unaccommodating instructions to iPhone users in New York and Washington D.C., and in other cities around the country.

These anti-choice organizations, or “crisis pregnancy centers,” are created to look like health clinics, but in fact will not provide women with the services they requested, and can ultimately be harmful to the women’s decision-making process.

Junior Sally Cohen, who worked at NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri in St. Louis this past summer, believes “everyone should have access to comprehensive information about their reproductive health. It’s outrageous that a program with the very purpose of serving as a personal assistant falls short in that area.”

Women’s reproductive health is disregarded and compromised too often. The Department of Health and Human Services only recently decided to recommend that health insurance plans cover birth control under preventive care. Plans beginning on or after August 1, 2012 will cover birth control and other preventive services. More than half of Viagra prescriptions, however, received health insurance within weeks of hitting the U.S. market in 1998.

A spokeswoman for Apple told the New York Times that Siri’s values were unintentional and were not meant to offend anyone; she promised that changes will be made to the final product. According to an MSNBC survey, one in 10 of the 30,000 U.S.-based cellphone users has an iPhone, which means that Siri is imposing her conservative moral compass on a large number of people.

College students rely on the convenience of their cell phones to provide accurate information instantly. The fact that Siri appears to be a venue for reliable assistance and inquiry while harboring judgmental opinions about women’s autonomy for choice is troubling. It is also troubling that after spending $200, the device that you carry in your pocket may conflict with your personal political views.

Granted, Siri is just a search engine, and Washington University students are intelligent enough to find information through other avenues. Though senior Carrie Kinkaid, who worked as a political intern at Planned Parenthood this summer, has a point: “It is unreasonable that Siri will provide locations of escort services, but will not provide information on abortion clinics, a legal service in most states. It is not Siri’s place, or Apple’s place, to provide subtle commentary about reproductive health issues.”