AP and Abortion
The Associated Press demonstrates once again the serious bias on the part of the mainstream media when it comes to abortion, in a story that suggests the existence of a rift among pro-life groups on whether the ban on partial-birth abortion was a victory for pro-life advocates:
Anti-abortion leaders are accusing one of their own, Focus on Family founder James Dobson, of misrepresenting a Supreme Court decision that upheld a ban on late-term abortions.
In a full-page ad in Wednesday's editions of The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs, the heads of four anti-abortion groups said Dobson wrongly characterized the court's April ruling as a victory for abortion foes.
The ad said the ruling will actually encourage medical professionals to find "less shocking" methods than late-term abortions, which abortion opponents call "partial-birth abortion." [emphasis mine]
Apart from the evident glee with which the author reports these groups criticizing Dobson, what's striking about the story (though no longer shocking) is the description "late-term abortions" AP uses to describe the banned procedure, and the usual "which abortion opponents call" phrase before the only mention of the accurate description of the procedure. What's remarkable about this is that AP doesn't even bother to be medically accurate and use the medical term intact dilation and extraction, rather substituting a generic and sanitized term that is neither accurate nor descriptive of what actually takes place during the procedure.
I won't describe the procedure graphically here...you can read Wikipedia's description for yourself. Suffice it to say, I think that the procedure is gruesome, and is a particularly abhorrent way to abort a child, though I personally oppose all abortion procedures, not just partial-birth abortion. AP's reporter would clearly prefer that readers who aren't already aware of the realities of this horrific procedure remain ignorant, and instead focus on reported infighting among abortion opponents. Nothing like honest reporting.
Source: My Way News - Abortion Foes Criticize One of Their Own