Posted on 01/02/2015 6:51:57 PM PST by Morgana
All of the hallmarks of National Public Radio the cosmopolitanism and the sexual progressivism come together in the subject of abortions worldwide.
On New Years Eve, NPR.org posted a photographers record celebrating an abortion clinic in a primitive part of eastern India, titled A Haven In A Land Of Unsafe Abortions.
NPR sent documentary photographer Poulomi Basu to spend time at the clinic in Khunti for a window into the world of legal and safe abortion in this remote part of India. Palo Khoya agreed to be photographed during her visit. It may be hard for a Westerner to understand why she was willing to be photographed at such intimate moments, in a country where people say nasty things about women who have abortions. Her doctor, Simi Mahesh, explains that there is a bond between doctor and patient: They do trust me, and that could be a reason. That trust would extend to the photographer who is working with the doctor.
A caption reads: Dr. Mahesh prepares to carry out an abortion for Palo Khoya. They just come because they dont want to continue the pregnancy, the doctor says. Theyre not bothered whether its legal or not legal. But were doing awareness campaigns to tell them its legal, its not wrong, to get rid of the stigma attached to it.
As for those who believe in a stigma attached to baby-killing? NPR has no time or space for an anti-abortion viewpoint, despite being subsidized by many pro-life American taxpayers.
This matched a one-sided NPR report on the October 2 edition of All Things Considered, centered in the same remote village, starring the same abortionist. Online, it was headlined Abortion In India Is Legal Yet Women Are Still Dying.
RACHEL MARTIN: India was one of the first countries to legalize abortion. That was in 1971. Making abortions legal in India and providing them in government-regulated clinics has decreased the risk to women seeking abortions. But in much of the country, women dont have access to those clinics.
ROBERT SIEGEL: As a result, the country has one of the highest rates of death due to unsafe abortions. Its estimated that every two hours a woman dies from abortion-related complications. And for every woman who dies, 20 more develop lifelong health problems.
Reporter Rhitu Chatterjee explained that Indian women often use a dai or midwife who does abortions using roots or herbs or aggressive abdominal massages with leaves and hot oils. According to NPR and abortion advocates everywhere, they need better science at baby-expulsion time:
RHITU CHATTERJEE: When women dont know that abortion is legal and when theyre too poor to get private health care, they have few options. But theres another reason behind Indias abortion woes, Manning says a deeper, cultural reason.
VINOJ MANNING: Anything about sex and sexuality is stigmatized. We dont even talk about it within our homes. And when it comes to abortion, it is even more stigmatized.
RHITU CHATTERJEE: Now, abortion is not a political issue in India like it is in the United States. But in rural areas it is considered wrong because a womans main role is still seen as a child bearer. As a result, women are discreet and secretive about getting an abortion. Thats what Manning and his colleagues found in a recent study they did involving nearly 400 women who had been treated for complications from unsafe abortions.
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VINOJ MANNING: They just didnt want to talk about it. They hoped that could resolve the what they considered a problem at home, without people knowing about it, without families knowing about it.
RHITU CHATTERJEE: This culture of silence and secrecy also prevents people from openly discussing the issue.
SIMMI MAHESH: Speaking about abortion was a sin.
RHITU CHATTERJEE: Thats Dr. Simmi Mahesh, the physician at the reproductive health clinic in Khunti, Jharkhand. She says thats why her organization, the Family Planning Association of India has been running education programs in nearby villages.
SIMMI MAHESH: We used to tell in our programs, no, we are not promoting abortions. We are promoting safe abortions. If a woman wants to go for an abortion, she should go to a safe, certified place by a certified doctor.
Whether its India or America, NPR is spreading the transparently silly talking point that promoting a safe abortion is not promoting an abortion without offering five seconds of opposition.
Being a typical leftist propoganda outlet, NPR can only survive by involuntary use of taxpayer money. It could never survive on its own “merit”.
What kind of radio programming is going to be paid for by a progressive government?
Makes me sick, and makes me even sicker to hear someone who listens to their tripe talk. They truly believe it is centrist. Of course they believe the Democrats are centrist and the Republicans are right wing extremist, and that folks like me are out of the spectrum.
Even the name of the program is a lie.
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