{"id":163193,"date":"2017-02-28T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=163193"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:31:27","slug":"jezebel-attacks-save-the-storks-fails-miserably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jezebel-attacks-save-the-storks-fails-miserably\/","title":{"rendered":"Jezebel attacks Save the Storks — and fails miserably"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jezebel\u2019s Prachi Gupta attended the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, during which she got a closer look at the display and representatives from Save the Storks, the pro-life group that travels the country with mobile ultrasound vans to help dissuade women from abortions and provide them with more humane pregnancy support options.<\/p>\n

That, of course, isn\u2019t how Jezebel spun it<\/a>. Instead, Gupta would have you believe Save the Storks is all about religious indoctrination, medical misinformation, and risking women\u2019s lives. Fortunately, however, being Jezebel, it\u2019s easy to see the cracks in their narrative if you know where to look.<\/p>\n

The most glaring cracks are in the below passage, and\u00a0I\u2019ve taken the liberty of annotating to fill in those cracks (see brackets):<\/p>\n

Women seeking an abortion in America today are struggling. Thanks to anti-abortion laws and stigma, women may endure verbal and even physical harassment by protesters outside of abortion clinics [citation needed]<\/strong>, face high costs and added burdens associated with traveling very long distances [which is only a bad thing if one presupposes that abortion is legitimate<\/a>], <\/strong>because there\u2019s no abortion clinic in their state [as of this January, there are 6 states<\/a> with just one abortion facility, but none with zero]<\/strong>, endure lasting emotional trauma if they are forced to have ultrasounds or carry a baby produced by incest or rape [citation needed]<\/strong>, and may even risk death to desperately obtain a back-alley abortion [citation needed; this wasn\u2019t even true before Roe v. Wade<\/a>]<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gupta next tries to debunk the risks of abortion itself\u2014and fails. Badly:<\/p>\n

These are not the \u201crisks\u201d that [STS\u2019s Julie] Rosati is talking about, however. \u201cAbortion is dangerous,\u201d she continues. \u201cI believe it can cause negative physical effects.\u201d She rattles off a number of organs, like the uterus, that will face a slew of unnamed \u201cissues\u201d and says, incorrectly<\/a>, that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. She then lists an alarming number of fake \u201cemotional effects:\u201d depression, regret, being triggered around the date of the abortion (something she called the \u201canniversary effect\u201d), and that some women will be unable to go to baby showers for the rest of their lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s quite a list of lies! Fortunately, they should be familiar to regular Live Action News readers. First, presumably the risk to the uterus referenced here is perforation during an abortion, which Mayo Clinic confirms can happen<\/a> and can impair women\u2019s future ability to conceive, and which an anonymous abortionist once told<\/a>\u00a0pro-abortion Salon is so common that \u201cthose that lie and those who don\u2019t do abortions\u201d are the only doctors who have never done it.<\/p>\n

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Second, Gupta cites an American Cancer Society page that supposedly debunks the abortion-breast cancer link. It cites a number of studies, including one overview by the highly<\/a>–politicized<\/a> and credibility<\/a>–challenged<\/a> American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and another by the US National Cancer Institute. What they neglect to mention, however, is that not only is there quite a bit of research<\/a> finding that there is such a link, but that one of those studies is by Dr. Louise Brinton, head of the National Cancer Institute\u2019s Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics\u2014who also headed up the aforementioned NCI study, and came to reject his earlier conclusion.<\/p>\n

Third, Gupta offers no evidence that abortion\u2019s emotional harm is \u201cfake,\u201d so let\u2019s show<\/a> her what studies<\/a> actually say<\/a>:<\/p>\n