Via Amplify, we find that Fox News is having a grand ole time slamming President Obama's plans to repeal the HHS regulation that allows medical professionals to reject birth control to women because of religious or moral reasons. In fact, they're having so much fun that it's compelled them to blatantly lie and say that Obama's plans will result in doctors going to jail if they don't perform an abortion.
This is despite the fact that rules have already been in place for quite a long time that protect doctors from this happening. Check out Media Matters for more.
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oh my...that was just wrong! they are being so misleading, it's really awful.
Can't they be more original. Really? I've had enough of the right-wing's amount of research, or lack thereof. Why can't they just go away. Seriously. They have nothing good nor intellectual to add to society. Just go away Rupert Murdoch. Leave now and never come back!
Sorry for the rant. I just read the Waxman report for a paper I'm writing, so I'm a bit intense over things like this.
The right wing doesn't believe in research.
From an unnamed aide to George W. Bush talking to Ron Suskind:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
While the majority of Fox News' low-information viewership may believe everything to say, I have to hope that the anti-choice doctors themselves realize this is a falsehood, and that hopefully, they will be able to educate their patients.
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Then again, I never thought that Glenn Beck's "Apocalypse Right Now (If Not Sooner)" rantings would ever be allowed on television, so who knows?
"...may believe everything they say..."
This is like when everyone was claiming that priests were going to go to jail for refusing to perform same sex weddings.
Based on that video Fox News aren't quite saying that, though that is certainly the implication they want to impress upon viewers. What they are saying is that some doctors would rather go to jail than be compelled to act against their conscience.
but then the anchor goes on to say "President Obama is considering repealing a regulation that kept doctors from having to make that choice [between going to jail or performing abortions]"
I'm pro-choice and support Obama's repealing of the Bush regulation in question. However, I do have a question about the previously existing law protecting doctors from being discriminated against because they refuse to perform abortions. According to the Media Matters link, that previous law stated that public officials could not discriminate against doctors who receive public funds on the grounds that the doctors refuse to perform abortions. Is there any possibility of doctors who don't take public funds being prosecuted for refusing certain procedures? I'm not American and am unsure of American law on this.
Why the hell did they have shots of "natural family planning" books and pans of the medicines behind a chemist counter? Maybe... "This is a serious report, about serious things, like medicines in brown bottles and people in white coats."
I do not play the hypocrite, when I say, that birth rate regulation not the only thing that can affect this growth. In favour of birth rate regulation those who already was born, as a rule, act. Probably, I should push the president beginning campaign for birth rate regulation in poor quarters.