Media Paint Pro-lifers as 'Militant,' 'Extreme'

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THE MEDIA & ABORTION

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Media paint Pro-lifers as 'Militant,' 'Extreme'
DIANE DEW
We all saw it coming, didn't we? The media's attempt to paint all pro-lifers as dangerous, 'extremist,' because one man, acting on his own, killed an abortionist. Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe, among others, seized the opportunity to plug passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. (Milwaukee Sentinel, Mar. 13, 1992) Peppered with hate, her words compared the killer to both the Waco wacko and the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center. (All three were religiously motivated and therefore parallel, the liberals would have us believe.) The same words -- terrorists, cultists, fanatics, zealots, violence, assaults -- applied to one were applied to all. In fact, a Milwaukee Sentinel news story (not an editorial, but supposedly unbiased news) Mar. 13 used many of the same caustic terms to describe Milwaukee pro-lifers: "militant," "rioting," "conspiracy," "violence," "extreme zealots," "threatening," "cult-like flavor."
Animal rights activists are described as "devoted" to their cause, for the concern for beasts. Opponents of abortion, on the other hand, are termed "fanatical."
And they call us intolerant.

MISCELLANEOUS, UNPUBLICIZED FACTS:

In 1975, just two years after the legalization of abortion in the US, 60% of all pregnancies were ending in abortion. A third were on teens. ("Abortion: Pain or Pleasure?" by Howard W. Fisher, MD, in The Psychological Aspects of Abortion, 1979)

Women who are shown actual pictures of an abortion do not as easily accept the procedure. ("Abortion and the Techniques of Neutralization," by WC Brennan, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, pp. 358-64)

The Day After Roe
January 23, 1973, the day after abortion was legalized in the US, a story in The Milwaukee Journal descibed, in the words of a clinic employee, the atmosphere of one waiting room. The article, entitled "Abortion Business Here is Brisk and Efficient," described patrons as a "casket faced brigade."
Clinic patrons looked "worried, guilty, ... stony-eyed," the article said. Clinics were herding them in "like cattle," said one patient.

A mere 'distraction'?
January 24, 1973, The Milwaukee Journal said that "politicians and policemen and judges" no longer would have to concern themselves with the "distractive" issue of abortion.
"Certainly the wisdom of changing the nation's organic law to reflect one side of a closely divided moral controversy is questionable," the paper said Feb. 11, 1973.

Abortion is BIG BU$INE$$... and the 'doctors' are making a KILLING!!!

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Why should we care what they do with their money?
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Luke 12:34
In other words, media dedicated enough to a cause to support it
financially probably also are biased toward that issue in their reporting.

"For they are a nation lacking in counsel & there is no understanding in them. Would that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would discern their future!" Deut 32:28 "They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons & their daughters...& the land was polluted with blood..." Psa106:38

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