Tuesday, November 29, 2005

LA Times Running Biased Fearmonger Story

LA Times Running Biased Fearmonger Story. Read this story and look at the way it is written. This is the perfect example of "Red Journalism" all scare tactics no basis in reality and certainly NO balanced perspective, and they wonder why no one reads the papers anymore.

COLUMN ONE
Offering Abortion, Rebirth
Yes, an Arkansas doctor says, he destroys life. But he believes the thousands of women who have relied on him have been 'born again.'By Stephanie Simon, Times Staff Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Dr. William F. Harrison has forgotten how many children the woman had. He remembers she was poor and, most vividly, he remembers her response when a physician diagnosed her distended stomach as pregnancy."Oh, God, doctor," the woman said. "I was hoping it was cancer."
This was in 1967. Harrison was a medical student and his wife was expecting their third child. It had never occurred to him that a woman would be anything but happy to learn she was pregnant.The next year, he trained on a maternity ward. In a 24-hour shift, it was not unusual, he said, for four or five women to come in feverish or hemorrhaging from botched abortions.Harrison opened an obstetrics and gynecology practice, but after the Supreme Court established abortion as a constitutional right in 1973, he decided to take on an additional specialty. Now 70, Harrison estimates he's terminated at least 20,000 pregnancies.His clinic has not been picketed for years, but Harrison feels very much on the front lines these days.Debate over President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, Samuel A. Alito Jr., has centered on abortion. Activists on both sides warn — or pray — that if Alito is confirmed, the court may one day reverse Roe vs. Wade.

1 comment:

  1. glad to see you back skye, hope your trip was fun. Monica is looking into doing the trip to the small village.

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