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NPR Memo Instructs Writers How to Frame Abortion Debate with Biased Language
www.faithwire.com ^ | May 22, 2019 | By Tré Goins-Phillips Editor

Posted on 05/23/2019 10:39:29 AM PDT by Red Badger

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Disgusting......................but NOT SURPRISING................
1 posted on 05/23/2019 10:39:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Huh? NPR? Don’t we pay fo.................. Oh.


2 posted on 05/23/2019 10:41:06 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

Why am I subsidizing this?


3 posted on 05/23/2019 10:43:26 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Do you mean objections to the slaughter of innocent babies?

Those "reproductive rights"?

4 posted on 05/23/2019 10:44:06 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Red Badger

Smell the fear...


5 posted on 05/23/2019 10:45:56 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rktman

This should surprise no one-If they didn’t skew the language, who on earth would listen to them?


6 posted on 05/23/2019 10:49:18 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: Red Badger

The memo: https://www.npr.org/sections/memmos/2019/05/15/723678750/guidance-reminder-on-abortion-procedures-terminology-rights


7 posted on 05/23/2019 10:55:07 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Red Badger

NPR?

Nancy Pelosi Radio?


8 posted on 05/23/2019 10:58:02 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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National Proletariat Radio...................


9 posted on 05/23/2019 10:59:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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If we don’t say “baby killing” but instead use the term - rainbow expelling then people will better accept our infanticide values and rights.


10 posted on 05/23/2019 10:59:56 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Red Badger
Anyone funding NPR is funding an organization that believes:

The term “unborn” implies that there is a baby inside a pregnant woman, not a fetus. Babies are not babies until they are born. They're fetuses. Incorrectly calling a fetus a “baby” or “the unborn” is part of the strategy used by antiabortion groups to shift language/legality/public opinion.

They also believe that jamming a knife into a baby's head, then sucking her brain out with a vacuum is “reproductive health care.”

11 posted on 05/23/2019 11:00:02 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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Using fetus instead of unborn, even though fetus literally means unborn. This is a epic fail that will not have the desired effect.


12 posted on 05/23/2019 11:00:13 AM PDT by Valpal1
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...the injunction against the word “unborn,” which journalists are to avoid like the plague, according to Memmott, because it “implies that there is a baby inside a pregnant woman.”

Whoa, he has us there. I'll have to admit that I was under the impression that that's where babies come from. Glad to be shown the error of my ways.

13 posted on 05/23/2019 11:00:25 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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“They’re fetuses,” he lectured. “Incorrectly calling a fetus a ‘baby’ or ‘the unborn’ is part of the strategy used by antiabortion groups to shift language/legality/public opinion.”

“Fetus” is Latin for baby.

14 posted on 05/23/2019 11:03:43 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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So the NPR portion of the swamp is still full.


15 posted on 05/23/2019 11:03:45 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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The style guide makes one thing abundantly, painstakingly clear: NPR writers are to go out of their way to make sure it never, ever sounds like the collection of cells inside a mother’s womb is a human life.

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Except that someone who kills a pregnant woman is usually charged with double homicide, and I think you would find that most people on the left or right, include those at NPR, would agree with the charges.

hmmm...


16 posted on 05/23/2019 11:05:07 AM PDT by z3n
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We are for the rights of the unborn.

This is the language we can use to counter their demonic euphemisms.


17 posted on 05/23/2019 11:05:26 AM PDT by FranklinsTower
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if we could get away with saying that abortion kills transgender babies.


18 posted on 05/23/2019 11:10:14 AM PDT by Skywise
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I guess that NPR doesn’t think that their writers are sharp enough to pull that off on their own.

So why on earth are WE still providing NPR with OUR Tax dollars?


19 posted on 05/23/2019 11:12:48 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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According to this article, about 25% of the NPR budget comes directly or indirectly from taxpayer funds.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/10/how_public_is_nprs_funding.html

And their 501(c)(3) status is questionable to me.

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If they want to finance their liberal agenda from their own means, fine. They have freedom of speech. But don't finance their liberal, often anti-American agenda with my dime.

20 posted on 05/23/2019 11:17:52 AM PDT by Sa-teef
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