{"id":208245,"date":"2019-08-09T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=208245"},"modified":"2019-08-10T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T16:14:27","slug":"former-abc-journalist-media-respect-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-abc-journalist-media-respect-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ABC journalist: Media should show respect for pro-life views"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a piece <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/08\/04\/journalists-could-cover-abortion-impartiality-maybe-could-gain-trust-trump-voters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Dallas News, Peggy Wehmeyer, a former religion correspondent for ABC News, has issued a call for newsrooms around the country to treat pro-life voices with respect and fairness. She calls out her fellow journalists for their gravely inadequate coverage of pro-life views, which she labels as \u201cgrossly underrepresented in today&#8217;s abortion coverage by most media outlets.\u201d According to a recent Live Action News report, a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/surprise-gallup-poll-pro-life-views-increasing\/\">Gallup poll<\/a> at the end of June this year found that, for the first time since 2013, &#8220;a higher percentage of respondents identified as &#8216;pro-life&#8217; rather than &#8216;pro-choice&#8217;,&#8221; &#8212; 49 percent to 46 percent, respectively. In addition, most Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/polls-majority-women-dont-want-taxpayer-abortion\/\">disagree<\/a> with taxpayer-funded abortions. And a January 2019 Marist poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/poll-75-percent-abortion-restricted\/\">as reported<\/a> by Live Action News, showed that &#8220;Ninety-two percent of Republicans, 78 percent of Independents, 60 percent of Democrats, and <strong>61 percent of those who identified as &#8216;pro-choice&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0stated they wanted abortion allowed <em>only in the first three months of pregnancy<\/em> \u2014 at most.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is hard to dispute Wehmeyer\u2019s diagnosis of journalism\u2019s treatment of pro-life voices today. Looking at a 2019 sampling of abortion coverage, the evidence is overwhelming. Just a handful of examples:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Washington Post\u2019s deeply biased <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-bias-pro-life-scrutiny-planned-parenthood-pass\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">coverage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Obria Group\u2019s network of pro-life pregnancy resource centers earlier this year <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times\u2019 one-sided pro-abortion <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-times-abortion-fixes-black-community\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">coverage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of abortion in the Black community and its publishing of an abortionist\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nyt-abortionist-claiming-pregnancy-kills-abortion-saves\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">op-ed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> claiming \u201cpregnancy kills, abortion saves\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Guardian\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/uk-media-truth-abortion-harassment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stigmatizing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of peaceful 40 Days for Life activists in the UK<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple News\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/apple-news-bans-pro-lfe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">banning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of a pro-life news site for \u201cintolerance\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big Tech\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/6-things-big-tech-suppress-live-action\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ongoing campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against Live Action and its pro-life news <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Widespread media <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/five-facts-planned-parenthood-family-planning\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disinformation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the Trump administration\u2019s new Title X Family Planning funding rule\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The evidence strongly indicates that most major news organizations are decidedly antagonistic to pro-lifers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-bias-pro-life-scrutiny-planned-parenthood-pass\/\">Media bias: Pro-life organizations receive heavy scrutiny, while Planned Parenthood<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wehmeyer, whose reporting once aired on World News Tonight and other ABC News shows, attempted to be fair to the pro-life voice. She exclusively interviewed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/roe-v-wade-exploitation-mccorvey\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Norma McCorvey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the \u201cJane Roe\u201d of Roe v. Wade, after McCorvey\u2019s pro-life conversion in 1995. She gave voice to abortionists traumatized by botched abortions that included <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/babies-born-alive-abortions-continue\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">live deliveries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And she covered pro-life protestors at abortion facilities as equally as she covered abortion activists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Build ideological diversity in the newsroom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former ABC News journalist&#8217;s proposes concrete actions to \u201crebuild trust with millions of Americans who feel marginalized by the national media\u201d include a need for \u201cideological diversity\u201d in newsrooms around the country. She argues that reporters, who are isolated in pro-abortion echo chambers, should sincerely educate themselves about the beliefs of the tens of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/americans-swing-pro-life-ny-abortion\/\">millions of pro-lifers<\/a> around the country. Although she specifically refers to learning about evangelical Christians and their pro-life convictions, the reality is that journalists would do well to learn about the <em>many<\/em> strands of the pro-life movement, including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secularprolife.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secular Pro-Life<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newwavefeminists.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Wave Feminists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the U.S. Catholic Bishops\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/about\/pro-life-activities\/index.cfm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pro-life ministry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/40daysforlife.com\/history\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40 Days for Life<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students for Life of America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrlc.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Right to Life<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, pro-life <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.care-net.org\/find-a-pregnancy-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pregnancy resource centers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, various state pro-life groups, and countless other organizations ranging from the grassroots to the national level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To Wehmeyer, the failure to adequately cover pro-life perspectives is at least partly rooted in most major newsrooms&#8217; disconect from the beliefs and experiences of pro-life Americans. A prime example is the media\u2019s chronic underreporting and unjust treatment of the seminal annual pro-life event, the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hundreds-thousands-march-washington-abortion\/\">March for Life<\/a>, which in 2019 drew an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2019\/01\/march-for-life-crowd-size-numbers-attended\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">estimated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 200,000 to 300,000 Americans from all over the country. Over five years (2013-2017), the March for Life <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/katie-yoder\/2018\/01\/17\/5-year-study-nets-spend-fewer-24-minutes-march-life\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">received<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a combined total of from all networks of just <em>23 minutes and 45 seconds<\/em> of coverage, while the combined coverage of the Women\u2019s March in <em>January 2017 alone<\/em> was 1 hour and 15 minutes. In January 2018, the March for Life received <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-covers-march-for-life\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13 times less<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coverage than the pro-abortion March for Our Lives. Even the UK March for Life in 2019 was greeted with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-silent-thousands-uk-march-life\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">silence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch your language<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wehmeyer also rightly points out that the media loses credibility with vast swaths of the pro-life public by consciously manipulating even the language they use to discuss the issues around abortion. She highlights deliberately misleading terms, like \u201cembryonic pulsing\u201d to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/embryonic-pulsing-media-weaponizes-dehumanizing-preborn\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">describe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a fetal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-embryo-heartbeat-medically-correct\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heartbeat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or \u201ccluster of cells\u201d to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ben-shapiro-slams-john-olivers-abortion-comments-its-not-getting-rid-of-a-cluster-of-cells-that-mean-nothing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/learn\/the-problem\/prenatal-development-abortion\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preborn baby<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that not only infuriate pro-lifers but insult their intelligence and drive them to other news outlets and alternative media sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPu7WVBU5GE\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t treat abortion as a mere political issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another problem plaguing news coverage, according to Wehmeyer, is that newsrooms today treat abortion solely as a political issue<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Yet she argues that her colleagues should expand their coverage beyond the political agenda of abortion to report on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/category\/human-interest\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">human side<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the story, by allowing \u201creasonable opponents of abortion to describe their moral angst over a mother aborting her unborn child.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wehmeyer recalls that her efforts at giving faithful representation to the pro-life voice at ABC News was widely popular among the public: \u201cOver and over our viewers told us they finally felt heard and understood.\u201d Yet she also recalls that, even two decades ago, she encountered \u201cvocal resistance\u201d from inside the newsroom. Still, she insists journalists are duty-bound to be faithful to both sides of the issue: \u201cLet the Democrats dismiss half the country as \u2018deplorable\u2019 or unintelligent, but not the media, which is charged with understanding and covering both sides with impartiality.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wehmeyer\u2019s call for fair-mindedness and respect for the pro-life voice in the media, which in a normal era might be considered common sense, is today nothing less than revolutionary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a piece published in Dallas News, Peggy Wehmeyer, a former religion correspondent for ABC News, has issued a call for newsrooms around the country to treat pro-life voices with respect and fairness. 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