{"id":195622,"date":"2019-02-08T10:37:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=195622"},"modified":"2019-02-08T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:20:23","slug":"exposed-media-history-inaccurate-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/exposed-media-history-inaccurate-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPOSED: The media’s history of inaccurate reporting on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An unearthed report surrounding a gruesome late-term abortion procedure is a reminder of how the pro-abortion media is frequently unwilling to question or challenge information spoon-fed to them by the abortion industry — even today. This phenomenon isn’t new.<\/p>\n

Years ago,\u00a0the abortion industry and its media friends claimed partial-birth abortions (PBA) were rare, and done only in cases of fetal anomalies or health of the mother. In a partial-birth abortion (or intact dilation and extraction or D&X), the abortionist delivers the baby feet first up to the head, then punctures the base of the baby’s skull and suctions out the child’s brain, delivering a dead baby. The media would have gotten away with its deception on this gruesome ‘procedure,’ had it not been for Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers (NCAP). He\u00a0admitted<\/a> that abortion advocates had\u00a0lied<\/a>\u00a0about partial-birth abortion statistics, and\u00a0stated<\/a> the procedure was actually committed thousands of times on healthy babies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A 1997 report<\/a> by the Weekly Standard summed it up:<\/p>\n

For almost two years, he and other pro-choice activists had insisted that the grisly procedure was extremely rare. It was, they said, an emergency surgery reserved exclusively for late-term pregnancies involving severe fetal abnormalities and life- or fertility-threatening complications for the mother. But then Fitzsimmons suddenly admitted<\/a>, in a flurry of interviews, that this was simply a dishonest “party line.” There are maybe 5,000 partial-birth abortions each year in the United States, he told ABC’s Ted Koppel and others — ten or more times the number he and his allies had claimed. And the vast majority of these abortions are, Fitzsimmons said, entirely elective, performed on healthy mothers and destroying healthy babies in the fifth or sixth month of gestation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Interestingly, abortion advocates are making the same claims about late-term or third trimester abortions in 2019 — that they’re only done for extremely tragic and difficult cases. And once again, the media repeats this line, while the proof — from a pro-abortion source, no less<\/a> — shows that very late-term abortions are being done on healthy babies with healthy mothers. The Guttmacher study stated that “[m]ost women seeking later abortion fit at least one of five profiles: They were raising children alone, were depressed or using illicit substances, were in conflict with a male partner or experiencing domestic violence, had trouble deciding and then had access problems, or were young and nulliparous.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Medical practitioners speak out against \u2018pure evil\u2019 New York abortion law<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Life Dynamics<\/a>\u00a0captured a shocking description<\/a>\u00a0of partial-birth abortion from inventor\u00a0Martin Haskell<\/a>\u00a0during a NAF conference.\u00a0Warning: the audio below is graphic…<\/p>\n