'Words are powerful, and these terms inch anti-abortion zealots and the laws they fight for ever closer to their end goal.' DCampoamor writes
Photo: Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS Last week, Texas governor Greg Abbott quietly, officially made abortion after six weeks’ gestation illegal in the state, effectively banning common surgical and medical abortions before most people even know they’re pregnant. As abortion providers, fund workers, advocates, and grassroots organizers work to help those seeking abortion care find providers out of state, everyone else is wondering just how this happened.
You don’t have to look far — or on Fox — to see how often abortion is inaccurately discussed. In a New York Times story about a 2019 anti-abortion bill in Louisiana, the headline read: “Lousiana Moves to Ban Abortions After a Heartbeat Is Detected.” That same year, the Washington Post published an article that asked, “What Are Late-Term Abortions?” And in 2006, CNN published an article titled, “Justices tackle late-term abortion issue.
“A heart doesn’t just ‘form’ once a sperm and an egg meet. To create a heart, stem cells have to divide and differentiate to form cardiac cells and then cardiac cells have to divide and differentiate to create heart muscle, valves, and chambers,” Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, an OB/GYN and abortion provider in Texas, tells the Cut.
“One of the most harmful trends that we see is coverage of abortion as sort of a political horse-race issue as opposed to something that really affects real people’s lives,” Woodruff says. “What it does is confuse people about the fact that abortion is incredibly common, incredibly safe, and incredibly supported by the public. But you wouldn’t know that by watching news coverage.”
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