Posted on 09/14/2019 1:45:11 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Doctors Say Facebook’s Decision To Take Down An Anti-Abortion Fact-Check Sets A Dangerous Precedent (barf alert)
After Facebook removed a fact-check from an anti-abortion activist’s video, doctors are warning of the dangers of putting politics over evidence when it comes to health care.
A team of doctors working with fact-checking group Health Feedback on Aug. 30 determined a video from Live Action founder Lila Rose, which falsely claimed that abortion is never medically necessary, to be inaccurate and misleading. Facebook notified people who had shared the video that it contained false information, and a link to the fact-check appeared next to the video.
That changed Wednesday after outrage from Rose and her supporters. Four Republican senators sent a letter to Facebook, accusing the company of bias against conservatives and the fact-checkers of pushing a pro-abortion agenda. Facebook then removed the fact-check while the independent International Fact-Checking Network reviews if it violated any of its principles.
Taking down the fact-check while it’s investigated is a reasonable step, one of the fact-checkers, Dr. Daniel Grossman, told BuzzFeed News in an email, but he added Rose’s video should also come down in the meantime. As of Thursday, it remained on Facebook without any indication that multiple doctors had found it to be false, based on scientific evidence and mainstream medical practices.
“Abortion access is critical to women’s health. This type of misinformation aims to undermine this fact and stigmatizes those who need this care,” Grossman said. “In the case of abortions that are medically necessary, there is a risk that patients may delay life-saving care if they believe the misinformation.”
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First was Dr. Kermit Gosnell from his prison cell in Pennsylvania.
Also was Dr. LeRoy Carhartt. Dr. Douglas Karpen, Dr. Steven Brigham, and Dr. James S. Pendergraft.
You know, the best in the medical community. NOT.
Panel of wolves determines thorough chewing is necessary for optimal lamb health.
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Abortion is never medically necessary.
Some times it is necessary to use a medical procedure to end a pregnancy. Medically assisted child birth is one, a c section is one. However the hoped for outcome of such a procedure should never be death of mother or child, but to save as many lives as is possible. If the intention is to kill an innocent human being it is a form of homicide.
AppyPappy True true BUT they can’t do that kind at your local abortion clinic or even by abortion pill (RU 486) ! That kind can only be done in hospital.
In that kind of pregnancy both the baby and mother are doomed.
This is why an ultrasound is needed before these women take the abortion pill. They could die if it’s an ectopic pregnancy. Lot of women are trying to get the pills online, from places oversea with ever seeing a doctor for an ultrasound. It’s cheaper to go on the internet, about $75.00 as apposed to Planned Parenthood which is about $400.00. Problem is they take their lives in their hands when they do this, either way.
Yeah killing babies is always supported by the communists that run Facebook and other social media. Remember abortion was and is a requirement in communist countries
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