Pro-life news brief 11-18-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Mollie Hemingway writes about Planned Parenthood’s abortion theater:
So the question is obvious. If 97% of Planned Parenthood’s services aren’t abortion, why in the world would an abortion regulation cause a dozen Planned Parenthood clinics to close?Closing clinics make for great headlines and more dramatic court briefs. But a media mildly more skeptical of savvy public relations campaigns and well-scripted legal wrangling might serve the public a bit more.
- The Toronto Star reports on declassified information from abortion debates within Prime Minister Mulroney’s cabinet in the late 80’s/early 90’s.
- The UK’s Daily Mail has a story about a Chinese man who begged his girlfriend not to have an abortion:
A Chinese man sunk to his knees in an abortion clinic and made a tearful plea to his girlfriend’s mother not to force her to have an abortion, it was reported in local media.The mother, Liu Rong, had deemed the man, called Zhang, as being unworthy of her daughter as his social standing was too low.
Because Zhang worked in IT and was not from the civil servant class – the new ruling elite of China – she allegedly declared him to be ‘beneath’ her daughter’s status.
- Slate’s L.V. Anderson thinks horrific abortion stories appearing in pro-choice media outlets are good for the pro-choice movement:
It helps no one when women feel that their feelings about their own personal experiences with abortion and contraception are somehow “not okay.” Which is why it’s wonderful that New York and Elle are reclaiming these stories from religious conservatives.Some women are pressured into getting abortions, and not every abortion provider is skilled and compassionate. Some women get depressed when they take the pill, and some experience agony during their medication abortions. Abortion and contraception can be good or bad for the patient, depending on her biology, her socioeconomic circumstances, her provider. To acknowledge these realities is to treat reproductive healthcare like any other kind of medical care — and isn’t that what feminists have been fighting for all along?
I doubt that NARAL and Planned Parenthood will be sharing horrific abortion stories (unless they are pre-legalization ones) anytime soon.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Mollie Hemingway writes about Planned Parenthood’s abortion theater: So the question is obvious. If 97% of Planned Parenthood’s services aren’t abortion, why in the world would an abortion regulation cause a dozen Planned Parenthood clinics to close?
So, are we to assume that Jill corroborated the reports about PP Keystone just as thoroughly as she corroborated this story about the dozen Texas Planned Parenthoods?
The Keystone ‘expose’ did generate a rather extensive narrative by employees and others didn’t it. Very illuminating. I found it so anyway.
Er… perhaps I could gently ask if you (LisaC) have analysed your own “corroboration”, and amended your own story accordingly, as per the following?
https://www.jillstanek.com/2013/11/pro-life-blog-buzz-11-5-13/#comment-469607
You really do seem to have a strong “prove anti-abortion people wrong by any means, coherent or incoherent” impulse… and that simply won’t do.
I am totally a fan of Mollie Hemingway!!!! This “interview” needs to be broadcast everywhere. Only pro-aborts don’t realize how it discredits their arguments but everyone else does. The pro-abort loving media is doing us a favor in presenting this as a “case” for abortion.
Er… perhaps I could gently ask if you (LisaC) have analysed your own “corroboration”, and amended your own story accordingly, as per the following?
May I gently suggest that you go to a dictionary and look up the definition of “corroborate”? The point of journalism–and Jill does, amusingly, claim to be a journalist–is to accurately represent what is happening, not merely to repeat whatever story you prefer to believe. A clip on a local news website shows an anchor saying that a dozen Planned Parenthood clinics are closing. The story on the website says that they are not closing. “The clinics are closing” and “The clinics are not closing” are not two equally true stories. One is right, and one is wrong. The journalistically responsible thing to do is to investigate further and report the story that can be corroborated (supported or verified by evidence).
My comments on the earlier thread need no emendation beyond the updated information that I posted immediately after finding it.