National Public Radio’s
supervising senior standards and practices editor Mark Memmott recently
published a “guidance reminder” instructing the non-profit media organization’s
employees in how to frame abortion news. Memmott wrote: “The term ‘unborn’ implies that there is a baby inside a pregnant
woman, not a fetus. Babies are
not babies until they are born. They're fetuses.
Incorrectly calling a fetus a ‘baby’ or ‘the unborn’ is part of the strategy
used by antiabortion groups to shift language/legality/public opinion.”
That
is simply a bold-faced lie.
Memmott
added: “NPR doesn't use the term
‘abortion clinics.’ We say instead, ‘medical or health clinics that perform
abortions.’ The point is to not to use abortion before the word clinic. The
clinics perform other procedures and not just abortions.” Memmott also
cautioned staffers not to use terms such as "fetal heartbeat,” “partial
birth” and “late-term abortion,” because they are terms often used by scary,
radical, right-wing extremists who somehow oppose
abortion.
Incredibly,
Memmott claims the memo will help NPR be “precise, accurate and neutral” when discussing
abortion. Telling your talent (and that is a relative term here) that they
should not use the terms “baby” or “unborn” when referring to what is inside a
pregnant woman is not accurate or neutral. It is certifiable. Is it a shoe? No.
An amorphous blob? No. Is it alive? Yes. So, is it a duckling? No. A piglet?
No. For God’s sake then, stop
refusing to call a baby a baby! (Which is much of the reason why the NPRs of
the world won’t stop doing just that).
Doctors
and nurses describe “how your baby
grows and develops” during the first—and each subsequent—trimester for parents
who are expecting. They do not typically refer to “your fetus.” During
ultra-sounds nurses don’t point to the screen and say, “Look at that thing
there, your fetus is a boy!” (Nor do
they say, “I’m arbitrarily assigning
the gender ‘boy’ to your fetus”).
It
is repulsive that taxpayer-funded NPR goes to these extremes to slant their
coverage of a “life and death” issue (to quote Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand), and is
yet another example of the making of fake news. Leftists have always engaged in
the corruption of language to entice, deceive and coerce the dull and unwary.
Hence “Illegal immigrant,” a factually correct term, becomes the inane
“undocumented alien” (due to their supposed “spark of divinity,” no doubt-- see
also, Nancy Pelosi). Those who wish to be a member of the opposite sex simply
have to say that they are, and, voilà,
they are “transgendered.” Yet, pro-abortion progressives attempt to dehumanize
small humans by labeling them as “fetuses” or “non-viable tissue masses.”
A
baby is a fetus though it looks like a baby and functions like a baby, has a
beating heart (I mean an “embryonic pulsing” to quote a recent article
in the New York Times), two arms, two legs and a pair of eyes? Even though it
is an inch or two from being outside the womb, and even though as soon as it
makes it outside of the womb it magically turns into a…”baby?” If a fetus is
born weeks—or even months—early it instantaneously and miraculously morphs into
a “baby?” Must be the air.
What
if what NPR calls a fetus identifies as a baby? What then?
Huh? How do you handle that, Mark Memmott? Memmott’s memo is not just ignorant
and irrational, but twisted and deranged.
Those
who supported slavery and those who support abortion share the vehement belief
in dehumanizing those they don’t consider equals. The Three-Fifths Compromise
of the early days of the republic had slaves counted as 3/5 of a human being.
Though it sounds horrible, in reality this was done to lessen the power of the
slave states and help bring about the abolition of slavery. Should there be a
Three-Fifths Compromise with pro-abortion types? If they agree to consider
“fetuses” as at least 3/5 of a human being, they’d be closer to a moral
position than they are now.
All
slaves were babies at one time. Thank God that not all babies grow up to be
slaves.
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