{"id":272970,"date":"2022-07-22T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=272970"},"modified":"2022-07-22T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:52:19","slug":"vanity-fair-headline-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vanity-fair-headline-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanity Fair’s abortion headline spreads anger and fear-inducing misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vanity Fair’s headline<\/a> on July 18 was literally too shocking to believe \u2014 though many readers likely trusted the magazine when it said, “‘Pro-Life'” Idaho Republicans Declare Women Should Be Left to Die to Save Fetuses.” This statement is false, and proves the pro-abortion media has left behind any trace of journalism in favor of fear mongering and abortion lobbying.<\/p>\n

Number one? Idaho Republicans certainly never “declared” such a thing \u2014 in fact, they “declared” nothing<\/em>\u00a0at all<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Platform vs. law<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happened in Idaho this weekend was… precisely\u00a0nothing<\/em>. The Idaho Republican Party voted against adopting an amendment<\/em> stating that abortion is acceptable in order to save the life of the mother, to add to its platform<\/em>.<\/p>\n

No laws were changed, no platform was changed, and everything is the same in the Idaho Republican Party concerning abortion and the lives of women as it was prior to this past weekend.<\/p>\n

But the Idaho Republican Party knows something that either Levin and Vanity Fair don’t know<\/em> or are pretending not to know: <\/em>Abortion in the legal sense<\/em>\u00a0(defined in pro-life laws as\u00a0intentional<\/em> killing) is never necessary to save the life of the mother.<\/p>\n

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ACOG website abortion definition 7\/20\/22<\/p><\/div>\n

Abortion, by medical definition, is the end of a pregnancy \u2014 whether the pregnancy ends by spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) or induced abortion (abortion). However, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines “induced abortion” as “an intervention to end a pregnancy so that it does not result in a live birth<\/em> (emphasis added).” Induced abortion is clearly what pro-life laws address \u2014\u00a0the intentional killing<\/em> of a preborn human being prior to delivery. Scott Herndon, who is running for state Senate in Idaho, explained (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

[…] for the last 49 years we have essentially lost the argument in the culture because we have focused on abortion as the termination of a pregnancy and not the termination of a living human being<\/strong>. […] We will never win this human rights issue, the greatest of our time, if we make allowances for the intentional killing of another human being.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the key difference here, and until everyone understands the difference between the medical and legal definitions of abortion\/induced abortion, we’re just talking in circles.<\/p>\n

Rather than intentionally killing the child before delivery, doctors who are not abortionists will simply 1) deliver the child to save the mother’s life, or 2) administer a necessary medication or drug to treat the mother’s condition, if there is such a treatment. Sometimes the treatment will cause the death of the child unintentionally<\/em>\u00a0or secondarily<\/em> \u2014 such as surgery for an ectopic pregnancy or cancer treatment or preterm delivery before the child is old enough to survive outside the womb.<\/p>\n

These are not legally abortions because they do not carry the<\/em> intent to cause the preborn child’s death.<\/em><\/p>\n

Keeping women in the dark and putting them at risk<\/strong><\/p>\n

But pro-abortion media like Vanity Fair, along with the abortion industry, want to foment confusion to keep abortion legal; in doing so they are putting women’s lives at risk. If women die because proper treatment was withheld during pregnancy because of this pro-abortion miseducation campaign, abortion proponents will blame pro-life laws, but their deaths will have been at the hands of pro-abortion misinformation.<\/p>\n

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Catholic hospitals and doctors don\u2019t perform elective abortions yet they have somehow been treating women with ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages for forever. This isn\u2019t actually complicated. All I\u2019d ask is that you really consider who is trying to make it seem complicated.<\/p>\n

— Alexandra DeSanctis Marr (@xan_desanctis) July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“And you know who’s telling women they should fear seeking care for miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy because of abortion laws?” said Alexandra DeSanctis Marr on Twitter<\/a>. “Abortion supporters. Not pro-lifers, and not pro-life laws. Abortion supporters are creating this chaos on purpose. Catholic hospitals and doctors don’t perform elective abortions yet they have somehow been treating women with ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages for forever. This isn’t actually complicated. All I’d ask is that you really consider who is trying to make it seem complicated.”<\/p>\n