{"id":129028,"date":"2016-11-08T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=129028"},"modified":"2016-11-08T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:19:29","slug":"correcting-media-narrative-late-term-abortion-a-must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/correcting-media-narrative-late-term-abortion-a-must\/","title":{"rendered":"Correcting the media’s false narrative on late-term abortion is a must"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0final presidential debate<\/a> featured a back-and-forth on abortion, including on the not so rare and misunderstood late-term <\/a>abortion<\/a> procedure<\/a>\u00a0as well as the partial-birth abortion procedure<\/a>,\u00a0which resulted in annually 5,000 abortions<\/a>, mostly on healthy babies,\u00a0before a federal ban was passed. As Live Action News’ Kristi Burton Brown pointed out<\/a>, despite a federal ban, partial-birth abortion is still legal in certain states and certain situations.<\/p>\n

So if you’re anything like me, you may have felt discouraged to see your social media feed full of articles claiming that late-term abortions are only performed for dire medical reasons — or worse, the blatant lie that 9 month abortions don’t even occur.<\/p>\n

As Live Action News has already covered<\/a>, The Washington Post erred in their “fact-check” about 9 month abortions. Other media outlets doing inaccurate “fact-checks” included USA Today<\/a>\u00a0and CNN<\/a>, which rated claims about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s support for abortions in the 9th month “true, but misleading.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps the\u00a0question we should be asking ourselves is, “Why the denial? Why is the pro-abortion media so determined to pretend that third trimester\u00a0abortions don’t\u00a0happen?”<\/p>\n

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