{"id":81352,"date":"2015-12-01T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=81352"},"modified":"2015-12-01T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:42:21","slug":"media-abortion-extremist-double-standard-is-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-abortion-extremist-double-standard-is-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"Media’s abortion “extremist” double standard is showing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When\u00a0a\u00a0lone gunman was arrested after\u00a0killing three people and wounding several others at or near a\u00a0Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood last week, the media (and of course, Planned Parenthood)\u00a0immediately labeled all pro-lifers “extremists,” claiming their “rhetoric” somehow led to the shooting. This irresponsible and untrue claim is obviously motivated not by truth, but by the pro-abortion bias of many in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

But when others\u00a0commit crimes – specifically those within the abortion movement – the media, if it mentions the crimes at all, does the opposite of\u00a0using them to label the\u00a0entire movement.<\/p>\n

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Abortion activist Melanie Toney<\/p><\/div>\n

Earlier this year, when Melanie Maria Toney was\u00a0arrested<\/a> for throwing a Molotov cocktail device at pro-life people praying outside an Austin Planned Parenthood, the media did not respond by labeling all pro-choice activists as “extremists” or “domestic terrorists.”<\/p>\n

Toney was not a peeping tom recluse living in a trailer in the boonies. In fact, she was an active supporter of abortion, even testifying against restrictive abortion laws in Texas.\u00a0Her actions were blamed on her alone and were not used as a politically charged media slander of all abortion supporters.<\/p>\n

There have been several acts of violence<\/a> directed at pro-lifers – some\u00a0involving\u00a0guns<\/a> –\u00a0yet the media conveniently fails to report them.<\/p>\n

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Abortionist Brian Finkel (via Life Dynamics Blog)<\/p><\/div>\n

Let’s\u00a0look at how the media handled just some of\u00a0the violent or illegal actions of those in the abortion movement, starting\u00a0with an abortionist who was convicted of sexually abusing several patients in his Phoenix abortion clinic.\u00a0In February 2015, an Arizona court rejected an appeal<\/a> by abortionist Brian Finkel (pictured right),\u00a0who was\u00a0originally charged\u00a0with 67 counts of sexual assault. Finkel was\u00a0sentenced in 2004 to nearly 35 years in prison and was convicted of 22 of those counts of sexual assault on his abortion patients. Despite the fact that Finkel\u00a0once did 20\u00a0percent\u00a0of Arizona\u2019s abortions, the media didn’t label all\u00a0abortion providers as\u00a0rapists after his conviction. (More on this case\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood employee Jorge Martin Santana<\/p><\/div>\n

In December 2013, a California Planned Parenthood employee was arrested<\/a> on a count of sexual battery, according to the Sacramento Police. Jorge Martin-Santana (pictured right) stood accused of allegedly inappropriately touching a patient while working as a medical assistant and the media was relatively silent. Despite his arrest on these alleged charges, Planned Parenthood suffered no scorn from the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

When Philadelphia abortionist\u00a0Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing three viable babies born alive during abortion procedures, and was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a woman who died at his clinic during a procedure, the abortion industry referred to him as an ‘outlier’ and anomaly – and the media<\/a> played along. In May of 2013, Gosnell was sentenced to life in prison, leaving the abortion industry and its\u00a0supporters who turned a blind eye to Gosnell’s\u00a0actions unscathed.<\/p>\n

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Former Planned Parenthood Lubbock CEO Tony Ray Thornton<\/p><\/div>\n

When police arrested Tony Ray Thornton (pictured right), he was working as the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood\u00a0in\u00a0Lubbock, Texas. In 2012, the 56-year-old was arrested and accused of exposing his genitals in Mackenzie Park. Sgt. Jonathan Stewart, Lubbock Police Department spokesman, said he didn\u2019t know whether children were in the area when Thornton was in the park or how many people were present. (Read the police report here<\/a>.) But no worries, because Planned Parenthood instantly distanced themselves\u00a0from him and that was that. There was no call from the media to label all Planned Parenthood staffers perverts for the actions of one employee.<\/p>\n

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Abortionist Rapin Osathanondh sentenced for manslaughter (Screenshot: Satellite News Service)<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2010, a\u00a0Cape Cod abortionist admitted that his actions led to the death of\u00a0Laura Hope Smith, who came to him for an abortion at 13 weeks pregnant. She was pronounced dead later that day.\u00a0Prosecutors charged 67-year-old Rapin Osathanondh (pictured right) with manslaughter, alleging that he failed to monitor her while she was under anesthesia, delayed calling emergency services when her heart stopped, and later lied to try to cover up his actions. In addition to receiving a\u00a0six\u00a0month jail sentence for pleading guilty to the criminal charge of involuntary manslaughter, Osathanondh settled a civil suit and agreed to pay $2 million to Smith\u2019s parents. To date, no other abortionist has been labeled an “extremist” for Osathanondh’s actions. (Read more here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Abortionist Malachy Dehenre arrested<\/p><\/div>\n

In a 5-4 ruling in 2010, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld<\/a> the 2008 20-year manslaughter sentence of Laurel abortionist Malachy Dehire (pictured right) for the 1997 shooting death\u00a0of his ex-wife Nayasha.<\/p>\n

According to the case<\/a>, shortly after midnight on January 23, 1997, 911 operators dispatched Jones County deputies and paramedics to the home of Dr. Nayasha\u00a0Dehenre, where her ex-husband\u00a0was standing outside when law enforcement officials and medical personnel arrived. He directed them into the home, where they found Nayasha on the couch with a book lying across her stomach, her feet propped up, with\u00a0a bullet wound to her head. She\u00a0died several days later.\u00a0Despite Dehenre’s cold and calculating actions, there was no call to label all abortionists as extremist wife killers after his arrest and subsequent sentencing and appeal. Instead, Jones County Assistant District Attorney, J. Ronald Parrish called the abortionist\u00a0–\u00a0not the abortion movement – a \u201cdespicable nasty person,\u201d\u00a0even adding that Dehenre\u00a0also killed abortion patients.\u00a0\u201cHe not only killed his wife, that’s what he was convicted for, but I think people need to know about him. He also killed two other women during abortions. One in Alabama<\/a> and one in Jackson, Mississippi, and according to him he performed 30,000 abortions on unborn children,\u201d the D.A.\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more…<\/p>\n

In 2008<\/a>, former employee and abortionist for Planned Parenthood of Columbia-Willamette in Oregon,\u00a0Dr. George Elliott Kabacy, was sentenced <\/a>to 6 1\/2 years in prison for possession of child pornography. Kabacy was actively practicing as an OBGYN in Washington State at the time of his arrest in December 2006. At the sentencing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Vince Lombardi said Kabacy \u201ctraded pictures of children being subjected to rape and degradation.\u201d Kabacy admitted<\/a> in his plea agreement that he knowingly possessed more than 8,000 images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Although this pedophile was not practicing at the Planned Parenthood at the time of his arrest, the media\u00a0chose not to associate him with Planned Parenthood at all\u00a0after his despicable illegal activities became public.<\/p>\n

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Abortionist John Baxter Hamilton<\/p><\/div>\n

On December 11, 2001, the Oklahoman detailed the murder trial of abortionist John Baxter Hamilton (pictured right), who\u00a0performed abortions at the Oklahoma Clinic for Women in Oklahoma City. Hamilton was found guilty of\u00a0the Valentine\u2019s Day killing of his wife, Susan Hamilton. Her nude body was found lying in blood in the master bathroom of the Hamilton\u2019s Quail Creek home, her skull fractured and face disfigured. She had been choked with a necktie and beaten to death.<\/p>\n

Although the media will tout the murders of<\/em> abortionists, few seem to mention the murders committed by<\/em> abortionists, including this one. They choose to see this case as unrelated to the abortion movement and refuse to\u00a0label abortionists\u00a0as extremists or terrorists because of it. (More info on this brutal murder here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Pro-abortion gunman Harlan Drake (Photo: Shiawassee County Sheriff’s Office via Argus Press)<\/p><\/div>\n

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