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Abortion: Ireland, Crisis Pregnancy, Support, Adoption, Media Bias

RTÉ Investigates turns a blind eye to 38,000 babies aborted and other grim realities

RTÉ Investigates turned a blind eye to the grim reality of abortion, writes NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN. "Dressing up biased reporting as investigation, and campaigning as fair reporting. No wonder fewer and fewer people are listening."

Abortion: UK, Media Bias

APPALLING: UK Independent praises young woman for documenting “brave” at-home abortion in viral TikTok video

A recent article in the UK Independent, titled “Mom documents at-home abortion to destigmatise abortion pills”, details a viral TikTok video where 24-year-old Monica, based in the United States, describes her at-home abortion.

Abortion, Abortion: Ireland, Doctors / Medics, Health, Media Bias

The same media who exploit Savita ignore Aisha Chithira

The indiscriminate and exploitative use of a dead woman's name, and her image, to push a controversial campaign - that she was never part of - continues. Yet the same campaigners ignore the tragic death of Aisha Chithira, writes NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN

Media Bias

Pro-lifers do not trust the media because we’ve been lied about so many times

Several years ago, the pro-life organization I work for—the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR)—launched a campaign to deliver one million anti-abortion postcards to one million homes.

Abortion: Ireland, Media Bias

Fake news around pretend 'strike' for repeal is the norm for mainstream media

You may have seen that media commentators are in a major tizzy about something called ‘fake news’, which they say is having an influence on public opinion, and that this is a Very Bad Thing. The irony here is that fake news is nothing new in the mainstream media, and the breathless reporting on the supposed ‘strike’ in support of the repeal of the 8th is just the latest example of the media tendency to distort the facts, or exclude alternative views, on a whole range of issues.

Abortion, Abortion activists / politicians, Media Bias

‘YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ’: GETTING WITH THE (IRISH) TIMES

There is a beautiful café that I regularly go to where the coffee is good, the staff are friendly and the food is top notch. While there, I usually pick up whatever paper is available and have a good read through it. One of the papers regularly available is The Irish Times. Last week, 20th January to 26th January, I had an opportunity to thoroughly read, explore and investigate The Irish Times on every day of its publication, excluding Sunday. Let’s just say, it made for interesting reading. Despite their repeal propaganda and deliberate attempts at brainwashing (their catchphrase is ‘You are what you read’) I’m still a firm pro-life advocate. During these six days I paid close attention to their antics, tactics and tricks that try to draw people over to the repeal/pro-abortion side. After this review, I then imagined myself in the position of the editor of The Irish Times. Below are my thoughts on what the editor’s group e-mail reviewing the week would be:

Abortion activists / politicians, Abortion: Ireland, Media Bias

MATTIE MCGRATH CLARIFIES REPORTER’S ABORTION QUESTIONS AND THE RESULTS ARE GOLD

Mattie McGrath, the pro-life TD for Tipperary, was recently sent a series of questions on the recommendations of the Abortion Committee by a journalist. He proposed clarifications to the questions which are a must-read. If we had this kind of clarity in the debate it would make for an honest and factual discussion on abortion, but, of course, the media’s heads would collectively explode.

Abortion: UK, Crisis Pregnancy, Support, Adoption, Media Bias

Abortion buffer zones on the Rise

It’s not exactly news. For many years now, the right to publicly protest has been coming under attack by people who are determined to shut down dissenting voices. You don’t actually need to be protesting to have your voice silenced – these days all you need is your publicly stated opinion that goes against the approved political view. So cake makers are fined in Northern Ireland for refusing to make a celebration cake for a gay wedding, a president a student socity of an Irish university is impeached simply for believing it’s wrong to kill unborn children, university pro-life and christian clubs are shut down simply for being pro-life and christian, a teacher in Cambridge is disciplined by his board and may lose his job for not referring to a transgender girl as a boy, and et cetera. And in another nuance on the possibilities of eroding democracy and shutting down free speech, there is the increasingly intense battle to put an end to peaceful prayer, protest and any presence at all by pro-life people outside abortion businesses.

Abortion: Ireland, Abortion / Mental health, Crisis Pregnancy, Support, Adoption, Media Bias

Stop the Fake News: It's not true that a woman was locked up for seeking an abortion in Ireland

The headlines were dramatic, and wholly misleading, but when it comes to abortion unfortunately this sort of fake news reporting has become the new standard in Ireland. So first, let’s set the record straight: a child was not locked up for seeking an abortion in Ireland, and nothing in Irish law would permit any woman to be detained because she requested an abortion. So what are the facts of the case? Firstly, very little is known apart from what was detailed in a report from the Child Care Law Reporting Project. That project reported that a consultant psychiatrist had recommended that a pregnant girl be detained “because she had a mental health disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health Act ….. and was at risk of self harm and suicide”.

Abortion: USA / Canada, Media Bias

The media's attack on the ultrasound fails the test of both history and science

It is common knowledge in the pro-life movement that the “pro-choice” media is, for the most part, “pro-abortion.” This is not an attempt to demonize their motives, but simply the only rational conclusion that observation can produce. Consistently, the media and their abortion industry allies portray legislation that would give women more information—informed consent, information concerning the baby’s development in the womb, ultrasounds—as “anti-choice,” when in in fact these policies simply allow women to make their irreversible, permanent decision with more facts. That those facts often prove persuasive in swaying women to choose life is evidence that providing them with these facts is not only useful, but should be, if “pro-choice” meant anything at all, imperative.

Abortion activists / politicians, Abortion Industry, Media Bias

Marie Stopes and their despicable abortion practice. When will the media report the truth?

A new series of reports has been released which is so shocking that the British mainstream media– which usually manages to ignore the seedier aspects of the abortion industry – has been forced to cover it. It was revealed that Marie Stopes International (the UK’s largest abortion provider) is guilty of a plethora of ethical, medical, and even basic sanitary infractions. The abortion giant performs roughly 70,000 abortions each year in the UK, and Irish women are referred to Marie Stopes UK by their referral agency in Dublin. However, the Irish media have almost completely ignored these shocking findings, perhaps because they seem to care less about woman than about protecting the abortion industry. Read on to see what was revealed.

Media Bias

Why all the surprise at the result of the US Election?

The mainstream media, along with a host of celebrities, didn’t shy away from telling America how to vote this year. Sadly for them, people just didn’t seem to listen. Liberals and the mainstream media are reeling from what they refer to as Donald Trump’s “shock victory” in the long, drawn-out 2016 US Presidential Election.

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