It’s Morning Report’s Jack Tame and Susie Ferguson and The
Dominion Post, not New Zealand politicians, who “should be embarrassed”
(Bridges 'loath' to change abortion law, May 29), as Terry Bellamak of
Abortion Law Reform NZ puts it.
Fellow-travellers one and all, they should be ashamed for stating and
reporting that women 'have to lie' to obtain an abortion. No they don’t. They
choose to lie.
When journalists believe that women 'have to lie' – that circumstances
sometimes require one to lie – it follows they believe that sometimes
circumstances might require journalists to lie, also. It’s self-evident, from
not one but three items in the May 29 issue pressing for change to the abortion
law, that The Dominion Post supports the move.
And to state that views opposing it are “largely religious in nature” is a lie. A hoary old lie, but a lie nonetheless.
And to state that views opposing it are “largely religious in nature” is a lie. A hoary old lie, but a lie nonetheless.
One needs no religious views whatsoever to see the health and societal
reasons for opposing abortion – just as one needs no religious views to see that
it’s always wrong to tell a lie - or to report it as fact.
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