November 17, 2017
Since we're in the 21st century you would have thought it's cool to be open. You know, talk about things. Discuss. Engage. Quite evidently, some don't think so. Particularly when it's a hot topic not to their liking. "To hell with truth!" they yell. Actually, they don't say it outright, but craftily sly-ball it away. Buzzfeed is a classic case.
While Buzzfeed's news articles are more often fake than not, we also see lazy journalism or an aversion to the truth. Especially when it's something of major social and individual concern, such as "abortion" (what a lame word that does nothing to describe the ripping of babies apart in utero, whose hearts are still beating).
Anyway, here's an example:
After Australian Conservatives senator Cory Bernardi dared to challenge, in federal parliament, White Ribbon Australia's advocating for late-term abortions, Buzzfeed reporter Gina Rushton (who just so happens to be a pro-abortion activist) wrote : "Queensland obstetrician and maternal-fetal medicine specialist Dr Carol Portmann told BuzzFeed News" ... "If there is a termination happening after 24 weeks it is going to be a situation of significant disability, most likely resulting in no quality of life, or a short life [for the baby] – usually brain problems or heart problems that are deemed irreparable."
Now, the issue here is, if Ms Rushton was willing to do a google search, she would have quickly found Dr Portmann's own paper given at the pro-abortion Children by Choice Conference, in July (2017), refutes her own claim.(See table below from her overhead.) We see annually in Victoria there were regularly more healthy late-term babies killed by "terminations" than those with congenital abnormalities.
Take the latest 10 years of available 2004 - 2013 figures, Dr Portmann's table highlights there were 1,766 late-term babies aborted due to psychosocial reasons, compared to 1,681 for congenital abnormalities.
So more than 50% of late-term babies aborted in Victoria, in the 10 year period from 2004 - 2013, were actually healthy.
This is shocking. And shocking still is when doctors, such as Dr Portmann, reportedly spin a story to push a certain agenda, and when reporters and editors do likewise - while deliberately omitting the facts.
White Ribbon Australia, and their pro-abortion coalition , have stated they want to decriminalise abortion. This means removing abortion from the criminal code, effectively allowing abortions to be performed for any reason, at any time during pregnancy.
Of course, only a small percent of mothers are willing to abort their babies late-term, or even weeks before birth. But it does occur. And this is what White Ribbon Australia is championing for, and what Senator Bernardi was raising as disturbing and no doubt hypocritical - from an organisation against violence.
Whether an unborn child has a disability or not, they are not monsters that need to be destroyed. Of course this idea isn't in Buzzfeed's universe. Nor the notion that we should cloak the mother and her child [with a congenital abnormality], in humanity and compassion, not disdain and deadly revulsion.
Note: Rarely spoken of are those babies who are aborted for minor abnormalities, such as cleft plate or clubfoot, etc, or aborted due to a misdiagnosis.
Source: screen shot of page 8 from Dr Carol Portmann's paper, presented at Children by Choice Conference July 2017 https://www.childrenbychoice.org.au/images/downloads/2017conference/Carol-Portmann-Accessing-termination-over-20-weeks.pdf
See below the humanity of a child at 19 weeks conception: Photo of Baby Greyson. Read full story here .