BBC Abortion Bias Must End
BBC Woman’s Hour Holds Biased Discussion That Platforms Illegal, Unsafe, Abortion Activism
BBC Woman’s Hour Holds Biased Discussion That Platforms Illegal, Unsafe, Abortion Activism
On Monday 9th May, BBC Women’s Hour held an extremely one sided 10-minute discussion on Poland’s possibly changing abortion law. During this discussion, they interviewed two abortion lobbyists, Agnieszka Stupkiewicz-Turek, and Rebecca Gomperts of ‘Women on Waves’ but had no representatives from the right-to-life movement either in Poland or the UK.
The pro-life view on this important topic was not given the hearing it deserves and BBC Women’s Hour should be called up on it.
Women on Waves is a group that sends abortifacient drugs over the border from Germany to Poland using drones. This is done in complete violation of Poland’s sovereignty and laws as well as the democratic will of the Polish people. The hope of Women on Waves is that by doing this, women in Poland will be able to clandestinely take these drugs to induce an abortion.
Not only is there a total disregard for the lives of the unborn Polish citizens, this is done with apparent disregard for the health and safety of Polish women as well. A 2015 study on the outcome following self-medication with such drugs in the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic research found that “unsupervised medical abortion can lead to increased maternal morbidity and mortality”.
- 62.5% of the patients were found to have incomplete abortion
- 22.5% had failed abortion
- 7.5% of patients had incomplete abortion with sepsis.
- Surgical evacuation was performed in 67.5% of the patients whereas 12.5% of the patients required surgical evacuation with blood transfusion.
In other words, there are very serious potential side effects of taking such drugs especially if done so without a physician.
The BBC’s bias in relation to abortion is already well known. Take for example, their official style guide which tells broadcasters to “[a]void pro-abortion, and use pro-choice instead. Campaigners favour a woman’s right to choose, rather than abortion itself. And use anti-abortion rather than pro-life…” So their bias in favour of abortion in this program comes as no surprise. That of course does not make it any more excusable.
Please sign this petition to BBC Women’s Hour asking for a fair presentation of all views on the abortion issue ensuring that the pro-life view is given a fair hearing.
http://www.righttolife.org.uk/news/action-alert-womens-hour-poland/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079m0gk
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/04/bbc-tells-journalists-say-ant...