No Fetal Pain in Abortion? Look Again :: Media

Media: August 25, 2005
No Fetal Pain in Abortion? Look Again

Wow -- even a major player in the MSM (USA Today) has now caught on to the extreme bias of the recent report which claimed that unborn kids feel no pain even in late abortions. After all, even though it was the once-prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association which printed the article, the discovery that the originators of the piece include an abortion mill director and other outspoken pro-abortion advocates...well, that kinda' soured the pie.

Of course, the JAMA should have caught on to the scam but being so firmly entrenched in its own bias towards abortion, it didn't bother to be objective. And, yes, the mainstream media should have checked the background of the piece before splashing it everywhere they could. They could at least have read the thing instead of relying on the article's headlines. They might then have noticed that the "study" was not based on any new scientific data at all but was merely rehashing stuff from old articles. But again, the MSM's enthusiasm for abortion (also strong) naturally clouded their judgment.

So why the semi-apologetic attitude shown by the USA Today article and even JAMA?

Why indeed. It was simply because the faithful "watchmen on the wall" of the alternative media were quick and well prepared to do the job the JAMA and the MSM should have done in the first place; namely, check the facts and report them. And with the numbers of Americans (and others) tuning out the MSM while turning on the conservative "new guard" media, the powers that be are increasingly feeling the pressure to respond.

No doubt about it; without the bloggers, the conservative columnists, the talk radio folks, et al -- the revised story in the USA Today would never have seen the light of day. So be encouraged...and keep telling the truth.

For more details on this story, checkout the recent posts of Jill Stanek and ProLifeBlogs.

Posted by denny at August 25, 2005 9:52 AM

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Prior Articles:

New Stanek WND column, "Abortion leaders concede?" - Jan 30, 2008
New Stanek WND column, "Helen Thomas' kind of life" - Aug 08, 2007
A Sign of the Times - Jun 12, 2007
The Language of Media Bias - Jun 07, 2007
Left says proof of Right's takeover: media uses "unborn child" over "fetus" - May 21, 2007
Video: MSNBC quotes WhiteHouse.org on Falwell's political influence - May 15, 2007
Winning the Debate by Silencing the Opposition - May 14, 2007
New Stanek WND column: "Rosie's pro-life Haiku crockapoo" - May 09, 2007

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Comments

Great post denny. Do you have a link for the USA Today article?

Posted by: papijoe on August 25, 2005 12:34 PM

Um, have you ever heard of a review article? They're very common. Have you heard of peer review? It's the process by which articles are vetted by people other than their authors. You may not like the study's conclusions, and it may be wrong, but you need to criticize it on medical grounds, not on the ideological purity of its authors. And you need to know a little bit about how papers get published.

Posted by: John on August 25, 2005 3:42 PM

There is nothing wrong with questioning the presuppositions of an ideological position that is disguised as a "review article". Since when do review articles begin with a political context and authors who do not disclose their affiliations and potential source of bias? Why is it that the vetting process did not reveal the potential biases and political agenda of the authors?

Posted by: tim on August 25, 2005 11:55 PM

Abortion is wrong period.

Posted by: Brittany Cox on September 27, 2005 12:33 PM


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