{"id":15620,"date":"2012-04-30T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=15620"},"modified":"2013-04-03T00:58:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T04:58:39","slug":"tuning-out-truth-with-ipods-pro-choice-double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tuning-out-truth-with-ipods-pro-choice-double-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning out truth with iPods: pro-choice double standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_15623\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15623\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15623\" title=\"iPod\" src=\"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/338087600_28c77d1b0e_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/338087600_28c77d1b0e_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/338087600_28c77d1b0e_n.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drowning out the truth with music. Photo credit: @cdharrison on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">A Texas woman\u2019s novel way of dodging abortion regulations may be music to the ears of pro-choice advocates, but it highlights the abortion movement\u2019s selective desire to conceal truth.<\/p>\n<p>In many states, pro-life groups have successfully enacted laws requiring women to receive an ultrasound before an abortion procedure. Texas law goes one step farther, requiring women seeking abortion to hear their children\u2019s heartbeats and a medical explanation of the sonogram. Denise Paolucci, 35, has decided to combat the new law by providing iPods to women seeking abortion &#8211; enabling them to tune out the required information. Irin Carmon\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/19\/drowning_out_abortion_laws\/singleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>\u00a0for <em>Salon<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Paolucci] contacted several Planned Parenthood branches to check that they would be up for her plan, and heard back from a few of them. Last night, she posted about the idea on her blog at Dreamwidth, the site she co-owns and helps run. \u201cIt took about nine hours, overnight, to reach the goal,\u201d initially set at $1,060, she says. If there\u2019s more interest, she\u2019s looking for help in finding independent abortion providers in Texas who\u2019d be up for it, and has encouraged her readers to donate directly to Planned Parenthood or to the National Network of Abortion Funds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This recent action, as well as the entire debate over ultrasound laws, has blatantly highlighted the pro-choice movement\u2019s obsession with drowning out truth. Rather than providing women with honest medical information, pro-choice advocates opt to conceal the facts. They wish to silence massacre with melody, blood with ballads, slaughter with song. The beat of a child\u2019s heart is muffled by the beat of its mother\u2019s favorite music.<\/p>\n<p>But why the opposition in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Is it because the sound of the heartbeat makes a woman sad? If so, the follow-up question is, <em>why\u00a0<\/em>do these sounds cause emotion? Is it because the knowledge of a beating heart makes a woman uncomfortable? Then\u00a0<em>why\u00a0<\/em>does this make her uneasy?<\/p>\n<p>Every argument that the pro-choice movement makes against these laws reveals reasons why a genuine advocate of choice should support them. True choice requires knowledge of what the choice entails. An uninformed choice is no choice at all. But don\u2019t just take my word for this &#8211; pro-choice advocates inadvertently agree.<\/p>\n<p>How? Let\u2019s step back a moment. If we examine the rhetoric surrounding the ultrasound law debate, it is very similar to the rhetoric surrounding another abortion-related issue: crisis pregnancy center regulations. Abortion supporters have led the charge to restrict crisis pregnancy centers in many states, demanding transparency and truth.<\/p>\n<p>NARAL\u2019s Nancy Keenan, a staunch opponent of the Texas ultrasound law, said in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/media\/press-releases\/2011\/pr07152011_cpcbill.html\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>\u00a0on CPC regulation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even though we may have differences of opinion on abortion, Americans value honesty in advertising. We should all agree that a woman should not be misled or manipulated when she\u2019s facing an unintended pregnancy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And later Keenan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.latinovations.com\/2011\/11\/18\/guest-blogger-series-nancy-keenan-exposing-the-deceptive-practices-of-anti-choice-%E2%80%9Ccrisis-pregnancy-centers%E2%80%9D\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However we feel about the issue of abortion, we can all agree that women never should be lied to when they need information to a [sic] make a decision about an unintended pregnancy. &#8230; Being honest to a woman facing an unintended pregnancy should not be too much to ask for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can anyone say \u201cdouble standard\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Women should know what they\u2019re getting when they walk into a crisis pregnancy center, abortion advocates cry. But when it comes to a life-altering medical procedure, the calls for clear information disappear and are even condemned when they come from the other side. It seems as though the values of truth and honest information matter only when they are encouraging abortion.<\/p>\n<p>But Nancy Keenan is only one example. This quotation comes from a 2011\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5774392\/nyc-to-vote-on-preventing-crisis-pregnancy-centers-from-misleading-women\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jezebel<\/em> article<\/a>\u00a0by Irin Carmon (author of the iPod article quoted above) on CPC regulation in New York City:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a press conference held just now, [city council Speaker Christine] Quinn said, &#8220;If you hide what you do, you must believe you can only do what you do through deception.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Ultrasound laws make women uncomfortable because abortion is uncomfortable. No amount of turning up the volume will reverse that truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas woman\u2019s novel way of dodging abortion regulations may be music to the ears of pro-choice advocates, but it highlights the abortion movement\u2019s selective desire to conceal truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":15623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tuning out truth with iPods: pro-choice double standards - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tuning-out-truth-with-ipods-pro-choice-double-standards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tuning out truth with iPods: pro-choice double standards - 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