Mon Mar 27, 2023 – 4:47 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, media outlets around the world have been fixated on the American abortion wars. The storylines are predictable and follow specific patterns. There are the stories claiming that women will die due to lack of healthcare if abortion is not accessible; human interest stories about women unable to abort disabled babies with ableist storylines insisting that it is cruel and tragic to prevent this; and stories with cherry-picked polling data claiming that pro-life laws are opposed by the vast majority of Americans.
And then there is the incessant parade of abortionist profiles, presenting them as beleaguered heroes on the front lines of feminist healthcare.
The Guardian, for example, recently published a long form essay lionizing Alabama abortionist Leah Torres. Torres, you might recall, is the woman who once responded to a tweet asking her if she could hear fetuses screaming while she aborted them by saying this: “You know fetuses can’t scream, right? I transect the cord 1st so there’s really no opportunity, if they’re even far enough along to have a larynx. I won’t apologize for performing medicine.
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