Please take part in a little experiment with me. Type into any news search engine like GoogleNews the name, “Howard Pfupajena” and see what you come up with. As of Wednesday night, there were only two references in pro-life new organizations.
According to LifeNews.com:
A California abortion practitioner was arrested on Saturday after allegedly assaulting a pro-life advocate who wanted to take pictures of him. The incident involves abortion practitioner Howard Pfupajena, who went to work at the Clinica Medica Para La Mujer abortion center that has been in trouble with the law.
The pro-life advocate, a man named Tim who doesn’t want his full name released to the public, was first shoved, then battered, punched and choked by Pfupajena as he attempted to take photographs of him.
Tim had decided to go to the Clinica Medica Para La Mujer abortion center because it had been in the news after one abortionist was arrested for doing abortions without a license.
The pro-lifer was trying to take pictures of the people working there as they left after asking a local police officer if he had the right to do so and receiving confirmation that he could.
So it’s now 11:40 p.m. Wednesday night and in GoogleNews there is no mention of this at all in the secular mainstream media that I can find.
In fact, if you search for the words “abortion” and “assault” in the news what you’ll come up with is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being quoted all over the place including the LA Times saying, that if a regulation being considered by the White House allowing any healthcare provider to refuse to deliver medical services that violate the worker’s moral beliefs passes, “it will launch a dangerous assault on women’s health.”
So seemingly the media would rather cover metaphorical assaults rather than actual ones because it fits into their preconceived viewpoints.
August 7, 2008 at 4:28 am
If it had been a pro-lifer beating the batsnot out of an abortion doctor the story would be splashed all over the internet, national papers, television, etc.
Yeah, it’s stating the obvious. Sorry.
August 7, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Matthew, Subvet, everyone,
Yeah, this is stating the obvious that the mainsream media doesn’t cover this stuff, but we need to continue to highlight this unbalanced coverage.
Google News is my favorite news aggregator, believe me I’ve tried many, and I actually have to create filters to get the news that I want.
For example, when that nutjob went into the Unitarian church and shot all those innocent people, Google showed over a 1,000 news articles with the header being “Assailant attacks church goers for liberal views”.
My filter for Pope Benedict XVI exhorting China to be more open to religious freedom a GRAND TOTAL OF EIGHT (8), yes eight news articles.
Thank goodness for the Catholic blogosphere. We need to get the word out to show things like this.
I’ve tried opening a blog on Daily Kos and within two postings I was shut downed and now I’m banned for talking about the hazards of abortions (this was two years ago).
Anyhoo, we need to continue to type away on our blogs because the information is getting out there. I have several internet acquaintances from conservative (and one liberal) websites that do read our blogs and pick up on our stories (for example NewsBusters). So keep blogging away!
Thank goodness for the internet because starting my own publishing firm would be cost prohibitive!
August 7, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I remember seeing my mom in jail when I was 2 or3 for PEACEFUL, nonviolent direct action sitting outside the clinics. She, a very small young woman, also got thrown over a barricade onto concrete once, and an old man in a wheelchair was pushed down stairs, both incidents in response to sitting at clinics trying to help the women– all of this by police officers. I guess the right to peaceable assembly doesn’t matter if the issue is sticky, nor does the truth, considering how many more women have died in the oddly (but unsurprisingly) under-regulated clinics, many of which could not meet hospital standards.
~Nzie