James D. Agresti
Crisis Magazine
In the buildup to the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, and even more so in its aftermath, prominent news outlets have been aggressively spreading falsehoods about key aspects of the case. Beyond logical fallacies about who is imposing their will on others, many reports and commentaries also contain statements that are discredited by the scientific facts at the core of this case.
Although journalism standards give commentators “wide latitude” to express their views, this is not a license to mutilate the truth. In the words of New York Times deputy editorial page editor Trish Hall, “the facts in a piece must be supported and validated. You can have any opinion you would like, but you can’t say that a certain battle began on a certain day if it did not.”
Yet, the New York Times and other media outlets have repeatedly broadcast demonstrably false claims about the Hobby Lobby case. Among the most frequent of these are as follows:
- Medical science shows that the Obama administration’s “contraception” mandate has nothing to do with abortion.
- IUDs don’t terminate human embryos.
- Morning-after pills don’t kill human embryos.
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James D. Agresti is the president of Just Facts, a nonprofit institute dedicated to researching and publishing verifiable facts about public.
James D. Agresti is the president of Just Facts, a nonprofit institute dedicated to researching and publishing verifiable facts about public.
From Susan Harris via facebook: Okay, "medical reasons" is due to the fact that most doctors rather treat symptoms than get at what the true cause is. For example, for PCOS (poly cystic ovary syndrome) most doctors will initially recommend birth control pills (to regulate the hormones and cycles) but what they don't tell you is that most of the time it is caused by a woman being insulin resistant and she should be on Metformin, not the birth control. So there are many women that have been told it is "medically necessary" when in fact it is not.
ReplyDeleteDoe v. Bolton defines "medical reasons" up to the day of delivery are "legitimate reasons for having an abortion." These "medical reasons" can include mental stress, fear, depression, etc.Non-physical reasons. A morning-after pill can cause abortion. The non-phyisical, then, can affect the physical.
ReplyDeleteAmazing that the leftists lean on the non-physical when convenient, but claim religion (non-physical component to Life) cannot be a reason for objecting to providing abortafacient b/control on health ins plans of family-owned & operated businesses.