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Vox faithfully parrots Dianne Feinstein's absurd and fake abortion stat
Washington Examiner ^ | 9/5/18 | Becket Adams

Posted on 09/05/2018 2:36:00 PM PDT by markomalley

Go deeper” indeed.

Vox is the first newsroom this week to parrot Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s, D-Calif., absurd claim that more than a million women died from unsafe abortions in the two decades preceding the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The California senator’s bogus assertion came Wednesday during Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

“In the 1950s and 60s, the two decades before Roe, deaths from illegal abortions in this country ran between 200,000 and 1.2 million,” she said, "citing" the Guttmacher Institute.

Feinstein added, “So, a lot of women died in that period … I think knowing going into it, how you make a judgment on these issues is really important to our vote as to whether to support you or not. Because I don’t want to go back to those death tolls in this country.”

You’d think that a statistic of this magnitude and seriousness would merit at least a “whoa!” or “is that true?” from a supposedly serious news organization. But you’d be wrong.

Vox’s Anna North let Feinstein’s claim go unchallenged, presenting it as fact in an article titled, “Brett Kavanaugh was asked about abortion in his confirmation hearing. His answer tells us nothing.”

[Also read: Dianne Feinstein grills Brett Kavanaugh over Second Amendment rulings]

North repeated:

During her questioning, Feinstein brought up the realities of illegal abortion in the days before Roe, a subject she also touched on in her opening statement on Tuesday. “In the 1950s and ’60s, the two decades before Roe, death from illegal abortions in this country ran between 200,000 to 1.2 million,” she said on Wednesday, citing the Guttmacher Institute. Given such statistics, she asked, “What do you mean by settled law?”

[…]

Feinstein pressed for specifics, saying that knowing “how you make a judgment on these issues is really important to our vote as whether to support you or not. Because I don’t want to go back to those death tolls in this country.”


The article continues like that until its conclusion, wherein North writes, “Ultimately, saying that he understands why people care so much about Roe v. Wade doesn’t tell Americans anything about how Kavanaugh would actually rule. Potentially more informative: President Trump’s promise that, if elected, he would appoint anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court.”

There is no attempt whatsoever to verify whether Feinstein’s shocking statistic about pre- Roe mortality rates is true. It's not, in case you’re wondering.

The Guttmacher Institute, which Feinstein "cited," estimates that 200,000 to 1.2 million illegal abortions were performed in the 1950s and 1960s. That estimate is not – not! – an estimate of maternal deaths from illegal abortions.

Vox would've known this had it taken just two minutes to double-check the apparently astounding claim that the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee had just made. But I guess only some people in power are worth fact-checking.

[Kavanaugh: Roe has been 'reaffirmed many times']


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: abortion; botchedabortions; brettkavanaugh; california; diannefeinstein; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; globalwarminghoax; maga; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; richardcblum; sanfrancisco; scotus; smearmachine; vox
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Or was Feinstein faithfully posting Vox's absurd and fake abortion stat?
1 posted on 09/05/2018 2:36:00 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

>>That estimate is not – not! – an estimate of maternal deaths from illegal abortions.

But it is a good estimate of human deaths since almost every abortion has at least one victim.


2 posted on 09/05/2018 2:39:19 PM PDT by Bryanw92
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To: Bryanw92

Dems
lie, the media repeats , and covers for them ,and the ignorant repeat it on social media as if it wee true.


3 posted on 09/05/2018 2:41:54 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Bryanw92

Kermit Gosnell, how many died in his filthy clinics?Or doesn’t it matter how terrible the procedures are as long as they dead babies organs can be sold off.


4 posted on 09/05/2018 2:43:12 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: markomalley

She also said there were “hundreds of school shootings”...

NPR can only confirm 11.


5 posted on 09/05/2018 2:43:37 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (Every time President Trump calls CNN fake news another hair falls off Brian Stelter's head.)
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To: markomalley
Feinstein probably has ties to Gloria Allred who made a fortune as one of California's major abortionists.
6 posted on 09/05/2018 2:44:13 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: markomalley

I’ll see your VOX and raise you a https://www.rawstory.com/

A truly unfiltered groupthink look at the world through the eyes of the left.


7 posted on 09/05/2018 2:46:37 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: markomalley

1. How many babies died during those abortions ?

2. Considering the unsafe practices and filthy clinics now in use and that it’s the same (level/quality) of doctors (and owned by the same organized crime syndicate) working there, did more women die back then, or now, or is it about equal ?


8 posted on 09/05/2018 2:48:35 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: markomalley

Ah, Feinstein.
She brings to the senate what a t*rd brings to the toilet.
She is, plain and simple, one of N dumbasses in congress.
Where N is a really big number.


9 posted on 09/05/2018 2:49:15 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Bryanw92

When I heard her questioning Judge Kavannah and spouting those statistics, the first thing I thought of was : what about all those babies? She was saying she didn’t want to go back to a time when abortions lead to death. I couldn’t believe how ironic it was.


10 posted on 09/05/2018 2:54:22 PM PDT by luv2ski
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To: markomalley

Most people knew or were related to one of the 58,220 KIA in Vietnam.

Where are the people who knew or were related to one of the 1,000,000,000 unsafe abortion casualties?


11 posted on 09/05/2018 2:56:54 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (I speak hyperbolically)
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To: markomalley

She also had an absurd claim about the hundreds of school shootings with assault rifles.


12 posted on 09/05/2018 3:07:46 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Clint N. Suhks

It’s all in how you define it I guess. If you take a school shooting as a gun being fired on school grounds, there have been 100s. This would include fights, gang activity, lover’s quarrels, idiots impressing friends, etc.

If you’re talking about school shootings where some loon walks from classroom to classroom systematically shooting children, then that’s probably NPR’s number. I count 7 shootings with 10 or more deaths since the 90s.

Like most numbers, it’s how you spin it.


13 posted on 09/05/2018 3:14:38 PM PDT by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: markomalley

The gullible women who sold our country out to China is also a two bit liar... and the liberals fools who follow her know she’s a liar and they lie for her.


14 posted on 09/05/2018 3:16:45 PM PDT by GOPJ (Republicans act like they're at a country club- Democrats like they're at a boxing match. Starboard)
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To: markomalley

Note that all these specimens of human waste who are promoting and protecting abortion are already born!


15 posted on 09/05/2018 3:22:52 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: markomalley; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks markomalley.

16 posted on 09/05/2018 4:12:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: markomalley

What I find interesting is both sides ignore the non-death #metoo stories.

Pre-Roe-v-Wade the UCC settlement house in my area had a teen counseling program provided by Planned Parenthood. PP hired a male grad student working on his Masters to run the counseling program.

Pregnant teens would come in (mostly Hispanic but a few Blacks and whites). The PP grad student would tell these teens:
You can’t get any more pregnant than you already are. So now is the time to learn to enjoy it. He would convince them to practice with him.

He would tell them how abortions were expensive. But he knew these generous guys who would pay for it. They threw parties at the 3-flat on E. Division. These girls should go to these parties and meet these generous rich guys.

PP was very effective at raising money off those teen girls.


17 posted on 09/05/2018 4:50:11 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: markomalley

How many women and minors are mamed or die from abortions in America at legal abortuaries?


18 posted on 09/05/2018 7:10:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: markomalley

http://freerepublic.com/tag/botchedabortions/index


19 posted on 09/05/2018 7:11:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: cnsmom

And Gosnell was protected by corrupt AF government officials.


20 posted on 09/05/2018 7:13:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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