Send this news story to a friend
Irish Media’s Double Standards on Life Issues Challenged : 27th Aug 07
Media Comment Ranges from Celebration of Life to 'De-Personalising' and Even Denying the Right to Life
Jim Stack writing recently to “The Irish Times” said “it was a great joy to read your report of Ireland's first in-utero surgery (I.T. July 30). Warmest congratulations to all concerned. In the circumstances, it seems churlish to complain of journalistic inconsistency.”
However, he pointed out, he was struck by the reporter referring throughout to "twin boys" and "babies". “I was delighted to read this, but it was in sharp contrast to the usual terminology of your journalists when pro-choice versus pro-life controversies are covered. When advocating a mother's right to terminate, the term used, almost invariably, is ‘foetus’.”
“I am not trying to be smart here, or judgmental”, he continued, “it just seems that so many journalists, and some health professionals, are confused, if not actually in denial, on these issues. How can it make sense that some medical resources are devoted to achieving wonderful results, such as that reported here, while simultaneously other medical resources are devoted to achieving the precise opposite?”
Furthermore, he added, “how can comment on these matters, in the same newspaper, vary from celebration of new life to de-personalising (or even refusing rights to) new life?” The Irish Times. August 7.
Recent Topics
- Action Alert! Irish Pharmacy Union Backs Choice Ireland
- What Does Chuck Feeney Want With Ireland?
- Former CPA Head Takes Over Medical Council
- Binge Drinking Increases Danger of Abortion
- UK Catholic Adoption Agency May Be Forced to Close
- Spanish Pro-Lifers Continue to Resist Abortion
- Study Links Abortion To Premature Birth
- Irish Senator Critical of EU Funding for Gay Adoption Conference
- Seán Dublin Bay Loftus, Veteran Pro-Lifer Dies
- Ray Gosling Charged With Wasting Police Time in ‘Mercy Killing’ Case
- ‘Dr Death’ Wants Assisted Suicide for All