So you think you're getting the straight scoop on Roe, the public's opinion on abortion, and the real work of the formidable Planned Parenthood? Mollie:
I’d recommend reading Tim Carney’s look at media treatment of abortion, Roe and Planned Parenthood. He begins by noting NBC’s misrepresentation of what Roe accomplished, calling it a fitting treatment for its 40th anniversary. He catalogues something you are not likely to even get a hint of from most mainstream media treatment — how “[l]egions of pro-choice judges and legal scholars have admitted that Roe was bad jurisprudence.” He goes on to note that “Planned Parenthood is an abortion business and an abortion lobby” but that its allies in the media obscure this.
He pulls few punches in showing that Planned Parenthood, contrary to media suggestions, doesn’t offer mammograms, offers almost no prenatal care and almost never refers pregnant women for adoption. “If you are pregnant, almost the only service Planned Parenthood provides you involves forceps or a scalpel.” This is true, of course, but it’s not a truth you will learn from most media presentations.
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