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\"media<\/a>Well, that was fast. Less than 24 hours after Live Action released<\/a> the first expos\u00e9 in its Inhuman investigation, the propagandists extraordinaire at Media Matters have attempted<\/a> to discredit it. MM has been deceptively targeting<\/a> Live Action for ages, and the folks at NewsBusters<\/a> and Discover the Networks<\/a> have much more on their hatchet work against all who oppose their agenda. Let\u2019s see if the three thousandth time\u2019s the charm:<\/p>\n

The woman speaks to both a clinician and a counselor at the facility, and the video is edited down to make it appear as though the clinician describes a procedure in which a baby that survives an abortion is killed using a toxic solution.<\/p>\n

Based solely on this exchange, Live Action claimed that the doctor who performs abortions at the clinic “has violated” the state’s law against murder in the first degree and called on the state’s attorney general to launch a homicide investigation. But Live Action edited out from the video the portion in which the clinician makes clear that the situation they’re talking about has never happened in her experience and the discussion is hypothetical, and the video shows the counselor explaining to the woman that the doctor would have to resuscitate the baby if that situation did occur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Specifically, MM flunky Simon Maloy objects that our highlights video<\/a> and press release<\/a> don\u2019t include this part of the transcript (which was diabolically hidden in, uh, our own release of the unabridged footage<\/a> and transcript [PDF]<\/a>):<\/p>\n

WOMAN: And then like, you know, if, if it didn’t work, you know, what would they do? Like, do you know what I’m saying? Like if it was there in one piece, if you’re this far along?<\/p>\n

CLINICIAN: No, we never had that for ages, of being it would survive this, no.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: You never have that? Really? Ok.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, there\u2019s the inconvenient fact that the above in no way negates the fact that the clinician says the \u201cwhole purpose of the solution\u201d is to ensure the baby is \u201cnot gonna be moving around\u201d and \u201cwon\u2019t be able to breathe anymore.\u201d Second, our press release honestly and fairly characterizes these statements as the clinician\u2019s own assessment of what they would do in the hypothetical situation; it makes no claims to know whether it has happened there or how frequently. Third, and perhaps most importantly, the quote Maloy accuses us of obscuring actually strengthens our case; as New York Post<\/em> columnist Kyle Smith recognized<\/a>, saying it hadn\u2019t happened \u201cfor ages\u201d sounds an awful lot like \u201ca seeming admission that a baby did survive abortion in the clinic at least once.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next, we learn that in Maloy\u2019s judgment, apparently we\u2019re supposed to ignore the troubling things she did say because another clinician at the same location acknowledged that the abortionist \u201chas to resuscitate\u201d a born-alive infant \u201conce it\u2019s outside of the body.\u201d Because\u2026suggestions of criminal wrongdoing only matter if everyone at an establishment admits to them? Justice has a points system where we tally up every employee who would or wouldn\u2019t murder a born infant, then give \u2018em a clean bill of health if the latter outnumber the former? Yeah, I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n

Finally, Maloy says our claim \u201cthat clinic workers seek to \u2018separate [the woman] from the humanity of her child\u201d in order to \u201censure the mother has an expensive abortion\u201d is contradicted by the counselor\u2019s end-of-visit urging of the woman \u201cto be sure that she is comfortable having the abortion\u201d and \u201cto talk it over with a friend before making a final decision.\u201d But here too is less than meets the eye. The counselor is responding to perceived inconsistencies in the woman\u2019s desire to abort. Of course abortionists will take some care to ensure a customer who could change her mind won’t give them a hard time during or after the procedure; Live Action doesn\u2019t claim abortionists are idiots when it comes to saving their own bacon. That doesn\u2019t contradict the clear reality that they dehumanize babies to sell abortions, be it in their official material<\/a>, this clinic’s talk of “specimens” and “waste,” or this counselor\u2019s assertion that \u201cwe don\u2019t use the word kill\u201d because that\u2019s \u201cdepending on what you consider as life, conception of life, or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Simon Maloy and Media Matters were genuinely troubled by the suggestion that Dr. Emily\u2019s Women\u2019s Center partakes in \u201cmonstrous and horrific procedures\u201d like Kermit Gosnell\u2019s, then their quarrel would be with clinic workers who create that impression, not the investigators shining a light on it. But in the end, the significance they place on whether the very same baby happens to be inside or outside the womb during his or her execution only proves Live Action\u2019s point: that this industry and its apologists are inhuman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, that was fast. Less than 24 hours after Live Action released the first expos\u00e9 in its Inhuman investigation, the propagandists extraordinaire at Media Matters have attempted to discredit it. 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