The Associated Press is becoming more and more woke and this time they have instructed journalists use the term antiabortion center instead of crisis pregnancy center. They also advised that scare-quotes be but around “crisis pregnancy center” and to explain “that their aim is to dissuade people from getting an abortion.” The AP added this entry between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27, 2022, and describe pregnancy centers as “set up to divert or discourage women from having abortions” and warns writers against “potentially misleading terms” like “pregnancy resource centers or pregnancy counseling centers.”
“It’s disgraceful that so-called journalistic professionals succumb to pro-abortion political activists to do their bidding,” Thomas Glessner, president of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, told The Daily Signal. His organization “won an important 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case against then-California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who applied state law forcing pregnancy centers to post information about nearby abortion facilities.”
“If they actually cared about integrity, they would know that pregnancy centers seek to help women who are facing unplanned pregnancies with material and emotional support,” Glessner added. “Many centers also provide medical services for free.”
“These centers are the backbone of the pro-life movement, serving as boots-on-the-ground representatives of a movement that cares deeply for both mom and baby,” Glessner said. “It’s a disgrace that the media have taken such an active stance against these centers, especially at a time in our history when women really need help, acknowledgement, and someone to lean on during a difficult time.”
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Nebraska celebrated the AP style guide change, writing, “Please see a recent update in AP style, which avoids the use of ‘fetal heartbeat’ bill since this legislation addresses neither a fetus (it’s still an embryo) nor a heartbeat (it hasn’t yet developed a heart).”
In December, The Associated Press issued guidelines on abortion prohibiting the use of “pro-life” and instead advising “anti-abortion or abortion-rights.”
Nice post. I learn something totally new and challenging on websites
All those who hate me love death. Who said that? It came from the mouth of Jesus Christ himself!
call the murder houses “population control centers” The PCC, like the CCP
Confound the language. It started with the serpent saying “Yea hath God said”.
This is why AP is now known as Amerikan Pravda!
Crisis Pregnancy Centers are not anti-abortion. They are places of help where women who are pregnant are afforded support to choose to carry their babies to term. If women who visit them choose abortion, they are not prevented from doing so, although arguments in favor of not committing the distruction of an unborn baby will be presented. Anti-abortion efforts are rooted in both religion and nature. Abortion is anti-nature.
So will now abortion advocates like Planned Parenthood be “labeled” as pro-death?