Sheila Gibbons, WeNews:
(WOMENSENEWS)–It’s troubling to see how much distortion is presented as fact on sites operated by abortion opponents.
Take, for instance, VirtueMedia, which produced an ad asserting that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, a claim debunked by the American Cancer Society.
Or try going to Abortionfacts.org. It’s operated by the Life Issues Institute of Cincinnati and describes its founders–a physician and his wife who draw parallels between abortion and euthanasia–as “the greatest single resource of educational information on abortion and related issues in the world.”
As silly as these examples might seem when they’re isolated and pulled out one by one, they have, as a concerted onslaught, achieved considerable influence.For one thing, they have helped shift the abortion debate from women’s rights to unborn babies, says Deana Rohlinger, a sociology professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee who has conducted several studies on media tactics employed by pro-choice and anti-choice groups.
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