Media More Concerned With Woman’s Privacy Than Dying From Abortion
by Steven Ertelt
Few mainstream media outlets have covered Jennifer Morbelli’s death
from a botched legal abortion this month, and the ones that have covered
it are much more concerned about her privacy than her abortion death.
But the Washington Post, in a column by writer Petula Dvorak titled “Woman loses her life and then her privacy after an abortion,” expresses
more concern about the violation of Morbelli’s privacy by pro-life
advocates who released her name and biography to the public to expose
the abortion that claimed her life. Here is how she led off her column
about Morbelli’s death.
Lots of people are opposed to the kind of late-term abortion that preceded the death of a woman in Maryland last week. I understand that.
But everyone should be opposed to the blatantly illegal violation of
her privacy and the exploitation of her death by protesters using it to
make their point.
Her name and photo have appeared on protest signs, in blogs and in newspapers.
The intimate details of her medical records — probably leaked by
someone with access to that information at the Germantown clinic where
she got the abortion or the Rockville hospital where she died — should
never have seen the light of day, let alone be broadcast at a rally the
day after her death.
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