{"id":202913,"date":"2019-05-24T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=202913"},"modified":"2019-05-23T23:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T04:21:59","slug":"npr-abortion-memo-minimizes-humanity-preborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/npr-abortion-memo-minimizes-humanity-preborn\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR abortion language memo purposely dehumanizes preborn children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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National Public Radio, better known as NPR, prides itself<\/a> on being a “news organization” that aims to “attain the highest quality and strengthen our credibility.” They want their journalism to be “as accurate, fair and complete as possible” and their journalists to “strive to be both independent and impartial.” Yet, it’s common public opinion that NPR is more left-leaning in its approaches to certain topics. A memo on the station’s website titled “Guidance Reminder: On Abortion Procedures, Terminology & Rights<\/a>” shows that this may very well be true.<\/p>\n

Don’t say “fetal heartbeat”<\/strong><\/p>\n

NPR Standards and Practices Editor Mark Memmott offers the guideline of not using the term “fetal heartbeat” because he thinks it is a pro-life term. “That is their term,” he writes. “It needs to be attributed to them if used and put in quotation marks if printed.” He says the “heartbeat activity can be detected ‘about six weeks into a pregnancy.’ That’s at least a few weeks before an embryo is a fetus.”<\/p>\n

Except it’s not a “few” weeks. It’s two weeks. Two weeks after the fetal heartbeat can be detected the embryo is now considered a fetus – after just eight weeks gestation<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a far cry from the “clumps of tissue” and “ball of cells” that abortion proponents call a preborn human being at that age.<\/p>\n

Here’s what that heartbeat looks like:<\/p>\n