Topic: Media Research Center
The Media Research Center is continuing to rant against abortion pills. When a Trump-appointed judge approved a ban on them over alleged problems with the FDA approval process, it defended the ruling and attacked anyone who criticized it. Alex Christy complained in an April 8 post:
Friday’s edition of CNN Tonight reacted to the news that a federal judge suspended the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone with horror, claiming the judge was inserting his “theological opinion” and seriously wondering why pro-lifers don’t target drugs like Viagra or Tylenol.
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Michaelson began by explaining the concept of “judge shopping,” where liberals and conservatives alike seek judges who they are certain will rule the way they desire, “Thtat’s not controversial. What's shocking -- so, I've been writing about Matthew Kacsmayrk for many years. He has said outrageous things over the years, and there's outrageous things in this opinion. This is a garbage opinion from open to shut.”
He further accused Kacsmaryk of playing to pro-lifers “He calls mifepristone chemical abortion. That's sort of that sort of a dog whistle.”
Mifepristone, like every other pill, is a chemical compound, so it a literally correct description, but even if liberals still object, abortion is still abortion whether you use “chemical” or “medication” as your preferred adjective.
Yet we don't recall Christy ever calling Tylenol a "chemical" when he takes one for a headache. Christy then huffed that mifepristone shouldn't be treated the same as other drugs, because abortion:
It’s one thing for CNN liberals to not understand pro-lifers, but the Republican strategist should know the difference between abortion and Viagra, Tylenol, and penicillin. It should also be noted that Kacsmaryk did not outright ban mifepristone, he simply said the FDA didn’t follow proper bureaucratic procedure.
In an April 9 post, Kevin Tober raged at NBC's Chuck Todd for pointing out the judge's partisan activism:
On Easter Sunday, NBC's Chuck Todd used the opening segment of his show Meet the Press to lash out at political activists for apparently causing a Texas court to order the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Todd was clearly upset at the ruling and claimed there was no reason for a challenge to the use of the drug since it has been approved since the "end of Bill Clinton's presidency." As if that matters. It's obvious that Todd sees no problem with defending a demonic drug that kills the unborn on a religious holiday. We all know the leftist media is Godless, but Todd made it all too obvious.
"The national divide was crystallized on Friday night in those dueling abortion rulings," Todd proclaimed. "Less than an hour apart on specifically the abortion pill over federal judges, these are legal efforts that were pushed by political activists seeking a decision by the Supreme Court."
Todd claimed that "there was no actual medical event, no misuse of this pill to trigger this look at the drug. It was simply political activists."
"No actual medical event." Well, that's partially true since abortion isn't medicine, it's murder. This is why it was rightfully challenged.
Todd then bemoaned how "this was a drug that was approved at the end of Bill Clinton's presidency, four presidencies ago." He seemed to think that evil procedures should be allowed to continue and should not be challenged simply because they've been in existence for decades.
Tober's reference to "evil procedures" gives away the game that this legal action is driven by partisan activism and not medicine. He then whined that another judge issued a ruling to preserve the status quo on the drug:
Todd ended by noting that "obviously the Supreme Court has to weigh in on this one."
That is the fault of the leftist judge in Washington state who randomly reacted with a contradictory ruling in an attempt to save the left's abortion blood lust. Now the Supreme Court has to weigh in to solve the dispute between the two lower court rulings.
Todd is pointing fingers in the wrong direction.
Tober didn't explain why Kacsmaryk's ruling must be considered so perfect that it shouldn't even be appealed -- but then, he's a partisan activist, not a legal expert.
When the (conservative-controlled) Supreme Court issued a stay of Kacsmaryk's ruling, the MRC didn't take it very well. Christy used an April 22 post to effectively argue that the lives of women are worth less than that of a fetus:
Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joined CNN This Morning Weekend on Saturday to react to the Supreme Court issuing a full stay on Friday night that allows the abortion pill mifepristone to remain on the market by repeating one of the network’s favorite and silliest talking points: mifepristone is “way, way less deadly” than Viagra.
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With the help of an on-screen chart that showed that mifepristone is responsible for five deaths per one million users as compared to 20 and 49 deaths for penicillin and Viagra respectively, Cohen added “In fact, if you're going to look at deadly side effects, penicillin: way more deadly, Viagra: way, way more deadly.”
Safety or deadly for whom? One million successful abortions are responsible for one millions deaths.
Resident MRC anti-abortion extremist Tierin-Rose Mandelburg raged against the Supreme Court in an Apriul 24 post using anti-abortion talking points instead of facts:
Last week, less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the court debated the decades-long decision of the FDA to approve a chemical abortion drug called mifepristone for sale at retail pharmacies. Unfortunately, despite the FDA’s inadequate research, the Supreme Court ruled to keep mifepristone on the market.
The news of this is shocking and heartbreaking for those in the pro-life movement.
Prior to the announcement, numerous pro-lifers were prayerfully hoping the deadly drug would be pulled.
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The fact of the matter is that mifepristone is an extremely harmful drug. On top of the fact that it ends at least one life - the life of the child in the womb - it also poses significant threats to the health and even life of the mother. Mifepristone, the first of a two-pill abortion-inducing regimen, chemically kills an unborn baby and can cause the mother to experience up to a month of cramping, bleeding and severe pain. As a matter of fact, the drug is “four times more dangerous” than surgical abortions and has reportedly increased abortion-related ER visits by 500 percent from 2002-2015, according to Republican Sen. James Lankford's office.
But anti-abortion exremists like Mandelburg want to outlaw surgical abortions too. Make up your mind, Tierin-Rose! Still, she whined: "Even still, Friday's news that the Supreme Court decided to keep the drug legal and available shows just how pro-abortion our nation has become. These people aren't pro-woman, they're pro baby death, as evidenced by many of the people who fought to keep the deadly pill on the market."
Tim Graham spent a May 11 post complaining that a Reuters article on mifepristone accurately identified conservatives at conservatives, going on to grumble further about more accurate reporting: "Reuters also employed the usual formulation on the science: 'Scientific studies have overwhelmingly concluded that the drug, which has been used by millions of women, is safe.' Safe for aborting women, but 'scientific studies' apparently don't consider the unborn baby to be a human, or someone whose safety you consider. That's liberal thinking, but there are no 'liberals' identified in this story."
For a May 17 post, Tober bizarrely chose to interpret a news story as a guide to breaking the law:
How desperate were the cast of CBS Mornings to promote the left’s abortion-on-demand agenda? Well, the fact that they were openly promoting an abortionist in Amsterdam who openly admits to providing abortion pills to women seeking abortions in American states where it was illegal. Even openly advertising how their viewers can get illegal abortions wasn’t off-limits for the leftist media.
Correspondent Haley Ott spoke to a foreign abortionist Dr. Rebecca Gomperts whose organization “Aid Access helps Americans get abortions, even though they are thousands of miles apart.”
Tober is spouting the Depiction-Equals-Approval Fallacy, regularly used in the ConWeb to falsely assume that because a news outlet runs a particular story, it endorses the content of that story.
