Ask Mainstream Media to Stop "Talking Right" About Women's Healthcare Options

Dear News Executives:

As social conservatives have increased their influence in government, there has also been an increase in mainstream media's use of right-wing rhetoric, particularly regarding women's reproductive health procedures.

Next week, the United States Supreme Court will hear two important cases - both of which have been called out by all major American medical associations for using political rhetoric rather than medical language to describe abortion. One example of such language is the term, "partial-birth abortion." This was a phrase constructed by social conservatives, and according to the American Medical Association, has no basis in medical terminology. Yet it is used regularly by mainstream media as though it were a medical procedure.

Americans rely on the media to provide facts and label value judgments as such. The judgment of medical professionals should mean more to journalists than the ideology of people in politics.

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During this especially charged electoral season, it is imperative that mainstream media figure out how best to cut through the ideology and present Americans with the reality of court cases and legislation alike.

Please, during this final week before the election, report the issue involving the abortion ban with less ideology and more facts.


Sincerely,

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