{"id":231128,"date":"2020-09-20T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=231128"},"modified":"2020-09-19T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T21:34:52","slug":"report-naral-media-mislead-favor-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-naral-media-mislead-favor-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"New report suggests NARAL expects media to mislead public in favor of abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Previously, Live Action News noted how NARAL’s recent report<\/a>\u00a0on abortion in the media indicated a supposed need for the media to use even more pro-abortion language than it already does<\/a>, with the abortion organization emphasizing that the media should discuss abortion more as “health care” as opposed to as a political issue. But the report also\u00a0seems to indicate that NARAL would like the media to lie about scientific facts for them.<\/p>\n

Heartbeat Bills<\/strong><\/p>\n

In criticizing media outlets\u2019 coverage of the Heartbeat Bills, NARAL’s report states that only four articles in the publications they reviewed “alluded to the notion that a ‘fetal heartbeat’ is not a heartbeat as we commonly understand it, but ‘pulsing of what will become the fetus heart beat’ [sic] or ‘fetal cardiac activity.'”<\/p>\n

The report gives an example from The Washington Post of the kind of statement NARAL would prefer to see in the news:<\/p>\n

An ultrasound will usually show electric activity in an embryo\u2019s forming heart at about six weeks of pregnancy, said [OB\/GYN] Jen Villavicencio\u2026 She said although that activity is not the same as a heartbeat that pumps blood, she often uses the term \u201cheartbeat\u201d with her patients\u2026 Villavicencio said it technically is an inaccurate description.<\/em><\/p>\n

Villavicencio\u2019s statements about the embryonic heartbeat are patently false.\u00a0The embryonic heart does indeed pump blood. In the following video, you can see the embryonic heart in action. The description of the video<\/a> at Endowment for Human Development, says, \u201cNote how the heart changes color as blood enters and leaves its chambers with each beat.\u201d<\/p>\n