This report from Fox News really bugged the heck out of me. And this isn’t the first time.
This is just the latest example of such blatantly anti-pro-life garbage from the mainstream media.
And remember that Fox News censored Matt Drudge (remember his show?) when the network prevented him from showing photos of surgery on the fetus of Samuel Armas. Drudge wanted to use a picture of a tiny hand reaching out from the womb to dramatize his argument against late-term abortion, but Fox refused to allow him and Drudge bravely walked.
But just yesterday I read this story. As you might have heard, model Kathy Ireland announced that she was pro-life and here’s the headline Fox News gives the story:
KATHY IRELAND LASHES OUT AGAINST PRO-CHOICE
Now, I leave it to you to read this story and you look for the “lashing out.”
Read the story and let me know:
Supermodel Kathy Ireland Lashes Out Against Pro Choice
It’s no secret that the majority of Hollywood stars are strong advocates for a woman’s right to choose whether or not she wants to terminate a pregnancy, however former “Sports Illustrated” supermodel-turned-entrepreneur-turned-author Kathy Ireland has gone against the grain of the glitterati and spoken out against abortion.
“My entire life I was pro-choice — who was I to tell another woman what she could or couldn’t do with her body? But when I was 18, I became a Christian and I dove into the medical books, I dove into science,” Ireland told Tarts while promoting her insightful new book “Real Solutions for Busy Mom: Your Guide to Success and Sanity.”
“What I read was astounding and I learned that at the moment of conception a new life comes into being. The complete genetic blueprint is there, the DNA is determined, the blood type is determined, the sex is determined, the unique set of fingerprints that nobody has had or ever will have is already there.”
However Ireland admitted that she did everything she could to avoid becoming a believer in pro-life.
“I called Planned Parenthood and begged them to give me their best argument and all they could come up with that it is really just a clump of cells and if you get it early enough it doesn’t even look like a baby. Well, we’re all clumps of cells and the unborn does not look like a baby the same way the baby does not look like a teenager, a teenager does not look like a senior citizen. That unborn baby looks exactly the way human beings are supposed to look at that stage of development. It doesn’t suddenly become a human being at a certain point in time,” Ireland argued. “I’ve also asked leading scientists across our country to please show me some shred of evidence that the unborn is not a human being. I didn’t want to be pro-life, but this is not a woman’s rights issue but a human rights issue.”
Ireland also asserted that she believes “no justification is adequate” (for an abortion) unless another the mother’s life is in danger.
“In that instant, your intention is not to kill but to save the life of another. If we’re about to demolish a building we make absolute certain there are no human beings in there before we take a wrecking ball to it, but the unborn doesn’t have a voice so it’s up to us to speak for them,” she added passionately. “If I see someone abusing a child I am going to stand up against that, and that’s how I feel about abortion. Women are not given all the facts, they’re told it is a harmless procedure and now it has turned into such a political football.”
The committed Christian and devoted mother even dedicated the chapter “Faith & Your Family” in her new book to her foundations in Christianity and believes that this is what’s missing from so many American families today.
“You have to figure out your own values and why you have them. People are going to try and push and pull at your convictions, so you have to have boundaries and put them in place,” she said.
Could you find the “lashing out?” Me neither. It might be more accurate to read this and say:
Fox News Lashes out Against Pro-Life Model.
April 29, 2009 at 3:57 pm
The headline is awful, the article is cool, she sounds like a great pro-life advocate! 🙂
April 29, 2009 at 4:01 pm
God bless Kathy!
But I do wonder: why does the MSM portray this as a “new” event? Kathy Ireland has been pro-life for years; heck, she tore Alan Colmes to bits on the topic, at least 2 years ago!
April 29, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I agree with Alicia, the headline is terrible, but the article actually treats Kathy Ireland’s opinion respectfully. In fact it calls her new book “insightful.” Also, this article is on the Entertainment page, not really the news page. Believe me, I’m no supporter of the MSM, but the headline writer really deserves the blame here.
April 29, 2009 at 4:24 pm
The headline is awful and unfortunately in such a sound byte society that’s all people have time for these days. Her story is riveting!
April 29, 2009 at 4:37 pm
The thing I got a kick out of is her reluctance to be pro-life. I’ve seen that so many times as people confront the issue. They don’t want to be pro-life but the logic of it is insecapable if you’re honest about the issue.
April 29, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Forget the substance of the headline – the headline writer should be fired for bad grammar. “Blog Commenter Lashes Out Against Illiterate!”
April 29, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Or, to get the effect of the person’s grammar, “Blog Commenter Lashes Out Against Dumb!”
April 29, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I agree that the actual article is fair but the whole thing is put into a biased context by the headline up top.
April 29, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Lash? What lash? I saw no lash.
In a culture that listens more to celebrity than genuine authority, it is good to have those in the limelight spend their celebrity capital in such ways. Cheers to Miss Ireland and Miss Prejean!
April 29, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Funny thing is: when Kathy Ireland speaks out about abortion, or debates some pro-choicer on TV, they accuse her of being an empty-headed model–even though her husband is a doctor, and she credits reading his medical textbooks with making her pro-life–yet people like Demi Moore and Britney Spears and whoever can pontificate left and right with zero references or credentials, and it’s “Oh, how wonderful!”
April 29, 2009 at 5:17 pm
What a beautiful and intelligent “lasher”. or is it “lash outer”?
April 29, 2009 at 6:55 pm
The headline is awful (and inaccurate), but as a former journalist myself, I would be willing to bet that the headline came from the AP or some other wire and not from Fox itself. If time is short, an editor often runs with the headline that comes with the story.
This is not to say that Fox’ editors could not use their own headline — and they should have!
April 29, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Maybe they thought it would sound better as a mascara commercial?
April 29, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I think this is a typo. They probably meant to say, “Fox News Thinks Lashes of Pro-Life Model Are Outstanding.”
It makes a lot more sense when you read it that way.
April 29, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I think it’s “Lasher-outer”
April 29, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Think whiney want-it-my-ways. If someone opposes the views of the whiner, their statements are taken as a personal attack on the whiner.
April 29, 2009 at 10:50 pm
The story went on to quote a pro-choice actress. What was the point? I thought it was so strange.
from FOX:
But on the opposite end of the spectrum, “Judging Amy” star Amy Brenneman has been busy voicing her views as a strong advocate of pro-choice over recent years.
“(My involvement) is really through this feminist majority that I work with and it is a very important issue that’s close to my heart,” Brenneman told Tarts at last week’s Autism Speaks event in Hollywood. “Unless a woman really has sovereignty over her own body we really haven’t come that far.”
April 30, 2009 at 4:39 am
I think the word lashes is used to generate clicks. “Kathy Ireland Explains Rational for Pro-Life Views” isn’t compelling. But everybody loves to see somebody lash out.
I live in Wisconsin…so I imagine it’s similar to the news station that predicts 8 inches of snow gets better ratings that the station that predicts 1. Even if the unsensationalizing station is always right.
May 1, 2009 at 2:04 am
The title might have referred to her eye lashes.
May 1, 2009 at 6:44 am
Kathy Ireland’s on our side when it comes to pro-life issues! Yet another example of the “hotness gap.” 🙂