{"id":274438,"date":"2022-08-17T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=274438"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:25:37","slug":"abortion-industry-calling-media-blackout-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-calling-media-blackout-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dangerous lies’: Pro-abortion physicians group calls for media blackout of all pro-life views"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An open letter<\/a> from Physicians for Reproductive Health (PRH), published originally by Jezebel<\/a>, is calling for the media to silence pro-lifers and exclusively air talking points from the abortion industry. It was signed by over 600 “doctors, nurses, social workers, nonprofit organizations and abortion support staffers,” and claimed that airing pro-life viewpoints is “damaging” to the country.<\/p>\n

Abortion is not health care<\/h3>\n

“We know your reporting standards are to cover ‘both sides’ of any debate,” the letter began. “Allow us to be clear: Medicine and science are not up for debate. Health care is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact. And the fact is, abortion is not in the realm of theory or belief. Abortion belongs in health care, social services, and public health reporting.”<\/p>\n

It is important that legitimate health care should be discussed from a scientific viewpoint. But let’s be clear: the media already denies science<\/em>. And they do so at the behest of the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

Take embryonic\/fetal heartbeats, for example. The media regularly claims<\/a> that there is no beating heart until late in pregnancy. Instead, embryonic heart activity is described as a muscle spasm, a flutter, or as electrical pulsing that means nothing. Pro-abortion media spokespersons have even claimed that a preborn baby doesn’t have<\/em> a heart at six weeks gestation… even though this is all demonstrably false.<\/p>\n

It is a scientific fact that the heart is one of the first organs to form in the human embryo. Early in pregnancy, there are only two chambers, and not yet four \u2014 and those two chambers are not only beating, but are also pumping blood throughout the preborn baby’s body. This is necessary<\/a>, because without blood flow, the preborn child could not grow or thrive.<\/p>\n

Yet the media, at the urging of abortion industry “experts,” spreads this kind<\/a> of misinformation<\/a> far and wide.<\/p>\n