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NBC & other media outlets describe a woman's forced abortion at gunpoint as a miscarriage
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:18 am
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:18 am
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NBC News is under fire after the news agency described a crime where a man forced a woman at gun point to take an abortion pill as "a miscarriage."
The article was written by reporter Doha Madani and details the criminal charges against Jagmeet Sandhu of Bakersfield, California, who is said to have held his girlfriend at gunpoint until she took abortion pills to terminate a pregnancy. In the story's lede, Madani described the outcome of the forced abortion as a "miscarriage."
It is unclear, however, if Sandhu will be formally accused of committing murder, as two local Bakersfield television stations said on Friday that the man was facing four charges and the crime of first-degree murder was not among them.
NBC's peculiar choice of words was heavily criticized by conservative leaders.
Reached by telephone on Saturday, writer Kassy Dillon blasted NBC News' wording of the crime and argued that the use of euphemisms to describe abortions is part of a broader trend among pro-choice activists. "It's just insane that they're calling it a miscarriage," said the founder of Lone Conservative. "He forced her to take pills at gunpoint. He forced her to have an abortion at gunpoint."
Meanwhile, the president of Students for Life America, Kristan Hawkins, called out the news network for its coverage of abortion-related issues. "This isn't 'inducing a miscarriage.' This is forcing a woman to have an abortion," she wrote on Twitter. "The lengths the media will go to ensure abortion never receives negative coverage is really astounding. Shame on @NBCNews."
As TheBlaze reported on Thursday, Sandhu was arrested by the Bakersfield Police Department after his girlfriend's family called 911 and told authorities he pointed a gun at her and demanded she take abortion pills. Police found the unnamed woman at a local hospital where she confirmed the story to officials. Her unborn child died as a result of the incident.
Sandhu was later arrested after authorities executed search warrants and found evidence that corroborated the allegations. Official records show that Sandhu faces several felony charges, including threatening with intent to terrorize, burglary, assault with firearm on a person, and inflicting corporal injury on a spouse.
Two local Bakersfield stations—NBC affiliate KGET-TV and ABC's KERO-TV—also described the abortion at gunpoint as a 'miscarriage.'
Dillon decried media outlets for playing loose with their language in order to normalize abortions. "Abortion supporters try to blur the distinction between abortion and miscarriages. Miscarriages are the unintentional loss of life of a fetus. Abortion is the intentional killing of a fetus. This situation is horrible and the man certainly deserves to be in jail."
NBC News is under fire after the news agency described a crime where a man forced a woman at gun point to take an abortion pill as "a miscarriage."
The article was written by reporter Doha Madani and details the criminal charges against Jagmeet Sandhu of Bakersfield, California, who is said to have held his girlfriend at gunpoint until she took abortion pills to terminate a pregnancy. In the story's lede, Madani described the outcome of the forced abortion as a "miscarriage."
It is unclear, however, if Sandhu will be formally accused of committing murder, as two local Bakersfield television stations said on Friday that the man was facing four charges and the crime of first-degree murder was not among them.
NBC's peculiar choice of words was heavily criticized by conservative leaders.
Reached by telephone on Saturday, writer Kassy Dillon blasted NBC News' wording of the crime and argued that the use of euphemisms to describe abortions is part of a broader trend among pro-choice activists. "It's just insane that they're calling it a miscarriage," said the founder of Lone Conservative. "He forced her to take pills at gunpoint. He forced her to have an abortion at gunpoint."
Meanwhile, the president of Students for Life America, Kristan Hawkins, called out the news network for its coverage of abortion-related issues. "This isn't 'inducing a miscarriage.' This is forcing a woman to have an abortion," she wrote on Twitter. "The lengths the media will go to ensure abortion never receives negative coverage is really astounding. Shame on @NBCNews."
As TheBlaze reported on Thursday, Sandhu was arrested by the Bakersfield Police Department after his girlfriend's family called 911 and told authorities he pointed a gun at her and demanded she take abortion pills. Police found the unnamed woman at a local hospital where she confirmed the story to officials. Her unborn child died as a result of the incident.
Sandhu was later arrested after authorities executed search warrants and found evidence that corroborated the allegations. Official records show that Sandhu faces several felony charges, including threatening with intent to terrorize, burglary, assault with firearm on a person, and inflicting corporal injury on a spouse.
Two local Bakersfield stations—NBC affiliate KGET-TV and ABC's KERO-TV—also described the abortion at gunpoint as a 'miscarriage.'
Dillon decried media outlets for playing loose with their language in order to normalize abortions. "Abortion supporters try to blur the distinction between abortion and miscarriages. Miscarriages are the unintentional loss of life of a fetus. Abortion is the intentional killing of a fetus. This situation is horrible and the man certainly deserves to be in jail."
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:20 am to Crimson Wraith
Ridiculous. They're so blind that they can't have any negative headlines about abortion, even though abortion itself is negative.
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:23 am to Crimson Wraith
Smh. Our media sickens me.
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:24 am to imjustafatkid
The next time a Muslim stabs people in Europe NBC will label it as ......
Surgery.
Surgery.
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:25 am to Crimson Wraith
Surprised that the anti-gun activists aren't sounding off because a gun was involved.
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:25 am to Crimson Wraith
Medically it may be similar to a miscarriage but in this context it's definitely dishonest to report it as such. Intent matters and in this case the intent was not the wishes of the mother.
So much for abortion being about respecting a woman's body
So much for abortion being about respecting a woman's body
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:28 am to Crimson Wraith
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:28 am to Crimson Wraith
Liberalism... it's a disease.
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:28 am to Crimson Wraith
Evil is good and good is evil. Bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:39 am to MeatCleaverWeaver
quote:
Evil is good and good is evil.
I used to think that verse was rhetorical exaggeration. Should have known better.
Posted on 12/15/19 at 8:44 am to Crimson Wraith
I've said for a very long time that leftists would favor executions, if we merely changed the term to "Very late term abortions"
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