Judges, Journalists, and Activists Re-Inventing Science

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | May 3, 2013

When judges, journalists, and activists start messing with medicine and science I think everyone should start worrying. After all, science should not be subservient to government policies or politics.

Here is an excerpt from the AP story about the NY Judge  that ruled the sometime abortifacient morning after pill should be available over the counter to 15 year olds:

If a woman already is pregnant, the morning-after pill has no effect. It prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg. According to the medical definition, pregnancy doesn’t begin until a fertilized egg implants itself into the wall of the uterus. Still, some critics say Plan B is the equivalent of an abortion pill because it may also be able to prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus, a contention that many scientists – and Korman, in his ruling – said has been discredited.

Notice how the journalist manipulates language to suit her agenda. “Pregnancy” begins at implantation, the AP White House correspondent says, wickedly and deceitfully implying that human life (Duh!) does not begin at conception. That of course, is patently false. Any medical manual will tell you that from the moment of conception a unique and fully defined member of the human species comes into being. The truth is clearly not what the AP correspondent was interested here.

Like the NY judge, the Inter-American Court for Human Rights, and activists from the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood, the journalist was interested in re-fascioning science to suit the pockets of abortionists, and to ease the consciences of women who make ignorant, selfish, or simply wicked choices.

What next?

 

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