A Headline You’ll Never Hear: A Decade of Abortion Clinic Peace

The Associated Press covered the killing of abortionist George Tiller expansively while ironically implying that such violence is commonplace. For instance, they wrote,

“But the doctor’s violent death was the latest in a string of shootings and bombings over two decades directed against abortion clinics doctors and staff.”

Is this accurate? The author of a blog called “Political Math” decided to check. Political Math uses youtube videos and graphs to demonstrate statistical points about everything from President Obama’s expansion of the national debt, to the number of jobs lost after the stimulus package was enacted.

Using statistics from the National Abortion Federation (naturally, with a pro-abortion bias), Political Math published this graph:

Would you have ever guessed from reading the AP article that this was the first abortion related murder since 1998? Probably not.

Political Math states,

“Given the actual data, the characterization of this incident as “the latest in a string of shootings and bombings” is deeply dishonest. It embeds into people’s minds the idea that this is a very common tragedy, like school shootings, hurricanes or gang-related violence. In fact, until I looked at the data very recently, I was under exactly that impression.

It would be much more accurate to say something along the lines of:

This incident has shattered an eight year lull in anti-abortion related shootings, an activity that spiked to record levels in the 90’s.”

So what’s the cause of the discrepancy? Is it that journalists are deliberately twisting the facts to fit their viewpoint?

The reality is, the pro-life movement is peaceful. Our commitment to life ensures that we keep striving for an end to abortion, an end to violence against the most innocent.

The reality is, the pro-life movement is peaceful. Our commitment to life ensures that we keep striving for an end to abortion, an end to violence against the most innocent.

Abortionists violently murder over 3500 innocent Americans EVERY DAY, that's the real violence.

1 posted on 07/26/2009 9:41:33 AM PDT by wagglebee

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3 posted on 07/26/2009 9:42:35 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

“But the doctor’s violent death was the latest in a string of shootings"

Looks like the so-called "string" peaked in the Clinton admin., and became nonexistent during the Bush admin. But good luck seeing that piece of info reported by the MSM.

4 posted on 07/26/2009 9:54:32 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

The right needs to continue to create and display fact-based analysis of all the phony canards of the seditiously biased media. A picture is still worth 1,000 words.

5 posted on 07/26/2009 10:04:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ( Jim Thompson for President.)

Abortionists violently murder over 3500 innocent Americans EVERY DAY, that's the real violence.

BUMP!

6 posted on 07/26/2009 11:29:57 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew

7 posted on 07/26/2009 4:59:04 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)

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