Posted on 09/12/2007 9:42:16 AM PDT by Pyro7480
The Daily Mail, which seemingly has a reputation for being a "conservative" newspaper in the UK, has performed an act of self-censorship. An article in the September 12 edition of Britain’s second most-popular newspaper featured the accounts of seven British women who had abortions. It appeared in both the web and print editions of the newspaper.
Dawn Eden of the popular Dawn Patrol blog highlighted one woman’s account on Tuesday night, in which she gave a graphic description of her abortion. By Wednesday morning, the account had been removed from the web edition of the article on the Daily Mail’s website.
Daily Mail correspondents Eimear O’Hagan and Ruth Kelly wrote the article for the 40th anniversary of the UK’s Abortion Act, which legalized abortion up to the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy. Four of the women interviewed for the article expressed their regrets for their abortions, and three expressed no regrets.
One of those who expressed no regrets was 22-year-old Ashleigh Taylor of South London, who is a "television researcher." She described the circumstances of her pregnancy, and gave a detailed description of her forced-labor abortion.
By the time I had the abortion, I was 15 weeks and two days pregnant. I went into hospital with my best friend for moral support, and the nurse gave me tablets to bring on labour. Because I was so far into the pregnancy, I had to give birth rather than have a straightforward abortion.
It was horrendous. After two hours the contractions started, and I clung onto the hand of the midwife. Once I felt the baby starting to come, I had to go into the toilet and let it drop onto a stainless steel tray.
"Don't look," said the midwife. "Keep your eyes straight in front of you and walk away immediately." There was no way I could have looked down and seen my baby. I was numb.
The print edition of the above article, including Ms. Taylor’s account, can be still be found on the Daily Mail’s website on their "E-editions" page. However, the web edition of the article no longer includes it. Since viewing the "E-editions" page on the Daily mail website requires registering, Ken Shepherd and myself sent Dawn Eden a screen capture of the print edition, which now appears on her blog.
Since the Daily Mail has a "conservative" reputation, it seems bizarre that they would remove a truthful account of an abortion, even though the woman who gave the account doesn’t regret her abortion. The newspaper has a circulation of over 2.3 million, so if the goal was to self-censor the account, the fact that it had already gone to print runs counter to that goal.
—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
Pro-life ping!
utterly depraved
Interesting how the truth must be steadfastly concealed in order for the supposed legitimacy of this manner of self-inflicted genocide to hold any water at all. If it's just a "blob of tissue" what's wrong with looking at it, eh?
Interesting.
And it certainly does reveal once again that the abortionists understand that abortion is not something to be closely looked at or thought about.
Abortion does not consort well with truth.
And yet she still referred to it as a baby.
The account has been removed. For a while, I thought it had been restored, because 5 of the 7 are still there.
Ping to post #8.
See post #8. Dawn Eden posted the screen capture on her blog,.
Here's irony:
"I don't think the abortion limit should be moved to 13 weeks, because... my life would have been ruined."
Sounds like it was ruined. Thank God redemption exists, and pray she can find it.
These two even look like Democrats, don’t they?
One wonders how they looked like BEFORE the abortion.
It’s interesting that these women don’t seem to know how they got pregnant.
They just “fell pregnant”. Like catching a cold or something.
Are they prostitutes as a side job and the birth control pills didn’t work?
One of those who expressed no regrets was 22-year-old Ashleigh Taylor of South London...No regrets!? Wow. Dead conscience.Because I was so far into the pregnancy, I had to give birth rather than have a straightforward abortion. It was horrendous. After two hours the contractions started, and I clung onto the hand of the midwife. Once I felt the baby starting to come, I had to go into the toilet and let it drop onto a stainless steel tray. "Don't look," said the midwife. "Keep your eyes straight in front of you and walk away immediately." There was no way I could have looked down and seen my baby. I was numb.
What kind of life would that baby have had knowing that I didn't even know the surname of the father?
OK, all you freepers out there who don't know the surname of your father, How many of you would prefer to be drowned in a toilet?
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