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There is very little connection between whether a pro-abortion project brings anything particularly new or insightful to the table and the media\u2019s likelihood of meeting it with admiring fascination. Case in point: the Washington Post has an interview<\/a> with Jex Blackmore, Satanic Temple (yep, them again<\/a>), about her Unmother project<\/a>, a blog diary of her experience with her own abortion.<\/p>\n

Cullen Herout has already started responding to<\/a> Blackmore\u2019s blog here at Live Action, so I\u2019ll leave critiquing her moral conclusions to him, and encourage you to check out what he\u2019s got so far. But there\u2019s more to say about the press\u2019s skewed, counterproductive approach to abortion, of which Abby Ohlheiser\u2019s WaPo piece on Blackmore is symptomatic…<\/p>\n

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Blackmore is one of a growing number of women who have told the personal stories of their abortions online. The hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion became a collection point of many of those stories this fall, started in response to federal legislation seeking to defund Planned Parenthood after a series of undercover videos accused the women\u2019s health organization of selling fetal tissues for profit in violation of federal law. Planned Parenthood has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

But Blackmore\u2019s blog is unusual for the conversation about abortion: While it, like #ShoutYourAbortion, directly addresses the social stigma directed at women who have abortions, her blog focuses on her pregnancy before undergoing the procedure, along with the physically painful and emotionally jarring reality of the abortion itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Between the above paragraphs was linked another WaPo article<\/a> from last month about \u201cHow #ShoutYourAbortion is transforming the reproductive rights conversation,\u201d which was in much the same vein: the biggest problem in the debate is the lack of personal perspective on how abortion helps women, and getting more positive anecdotes out there will work wonders in washing the stigma away.<\/p>\n

But the truth is this isn\u2019t anything new. Contrary to the above, pro-abortion activists have been trying this since long before the latest hashtag or the Center for Medical Progress<\/a> came along. \u201cMy Abortion. My Life\u201d started collecting anecdotes to fight the \u201cstigma\u201d in January<\/a>. More than a year ago, it was the Not Alone project<\/a> and Emily Letts filming her abortion<\/a>, the latter of which was all the rage among so many who now think there\u2019s something original about #ShoutYourAbortion. Abortionists<\/a> and activists<\/a> were bemoaning the need to fight \u201cabortion stigma\u201d the year before. NARAL has 173 “positive” abortion stories<\/a>. \u201cThanks, Abortion!\u201d (ugh) dates back to 2010<\/a>. Glamour Magazine profiled<\/a> women sharing their abortion stories in 2009. ImNotSorry.net has been going<\/a> since 2003.<\/p>\n

But reading the Post, you\u2019d think Blackmore and the Twitter generation only now stumbled upon the magic formula to win the argument once and for all. Maybe they need to keep telling themselves it simply hasn\u2019t been tried yet as a way of denying that it\u2019s already failed\u2014according to Gallup, none of this decade\u2019s worth of efforts have gotten Americans\u2019 opposition to elective abortion to drop below 54%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With the national conversation on abortion focusing intensely on the debate over choice and morality of the procedure itself, Blackmore felt, something else gets ignored.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re always talking about choice \u2014 the right of the mother, or of the fetus, the \u2018unborn child.\u2019 In that conversation, the woman almost gets forgotten. It\u2019s not part of the psyche of the argument,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe woman almost gets forgotten\u201d and is \u201cnot part of the psyche of the argument\u201d?<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

Pro-abortion politicians, activists, and commentators have been so fixated on making the argument solely<\/em> about the woman that their efforts coined a whole new pejorative for being pro-life: \u201cwar on women<\/a>.\u201d It strains credulity to suggest that Blackmore nor the interviewer who should have questioned her about the manifest falsehood of the statement could be unfamiliar with the phrase.<\/p>\n

Nobody\u2019s forgetting that women are involved (well, except for Bernie Sanders forgetting about pro-life women<\/a>). Scarcely a day goes by without a pro-lifer in the blogosphere or on the campaign trail getting assailed with \u201cdon\u2019t you know what pregnant women go through?\u201d or \u201chow can you say women can\u2019t decide for themselves?\u201d and so on. We\u2019re constantly answering challenges about alleged insensitivity to the fairer sex.<\/p>\n

To then be told we\u2019re not taking women into consideration\u2014by the same people who really are trying to exclude someone else, the child, from the discussion\u2014is preposterous.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think overwhelmingly the results of me documenting this process have been that there is a greater need for a conversation and understanding and support for women who are pregnant and planning an abortion, from the community at large,\u201d Blackmore said. And that includes among the \u201cpro-choice\u201d movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe abortion procedure for me was painful and kind of horrible for me personally,\u201d Blackmore said. \u201cI think there\u2019s a fear of discussing that because people are afraid about feeding into the anti-choice rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s true that \u201cpainful and kind of horrible\u201d aspects of experiences don\u2019t necessarily condemn a procedure\u2014root canals can be nasty business too, and that doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s anything wrong with them\u2014but any admission that there\u2019s something potentially \u201chorrible\u201d should at least spark some exploration of the possibility, a determination of whether the horribleness is something superficial and subjective, or points to a darker truth.<\/p>\n

Similarly, pro-choicers\u2019 self-proclaimed ambivalence to talk about what they\u2019re supporting in real candor or depth ought to be a subject worthy of its own separate interview. The question it raises\u2014how can being honest about abortion help abortion\u2019s opponents if the procedure really is noble and important?\u2014practically asks itself.<\/p>\n

This comment, and the rest of the false premises exposed above, were golden opportunities for a more critically-minded interviewer to practice some real journalism and produce a unique and valuable abortion interview for a change. Alas, it was not to be\u2014because much like Jex Blackmore, the mainstream press is absolutely convinced that abortion\u2019s legitimacy is obvious, and that the only reason their fellow Americans don\u2019t see it is because they haven\u2019t been told so enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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