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While abortion is increasingly portrayed in American TV shows and movies, some are calling for more minority women in those portrayals, and more abortion in general in media. But if the entertainment industry is to accurately depict abortion in America, greater honesty is needed regarding the abortion industry’s frequent health and safety issues, the lack of accountability and oversight for abortion businesses, and the way the industry manipulates women.
Since 2012, two researchers with the University of California at San Francisco’s openly pro-abortion Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program have maintained a database of on-screen abortion portrayals. According to ANSIRH, the Abortion Onscreen program is “aimed at investigating these stories and analyzing their impact on broader social understandings of abortion.” The database is described as “a listing of all film and television depictions available to viewers in the United States in which a character obtains an abortion, or discloses having one in the past.” According to the Insider , the database records portrayals as far back as 1916.
Insider noted that the Abortion Onscreen program creators feel “most on-screen abortions don’t accurately portray the average American’s experience because they fail to illustrate the cost, time commitment, access issues abortion seekers, primarily women of color, face.” Co-researchers Steph Herold and Gretchen Sisson believe that “ Hollywood tends to dramatically exaggerate the medical risks associated with abortion while downplaying real barriers to access .” In 2020, Herold and Sisson celebrated that abortion portrayals outweighed portrayals of adoption or parenting, but expressed disappointment that most featured white characters, saying, “abortion patients are most often people of color.” They were also disappointed that shows rarely portrayed mothers with other children choosing abortion, or women “struggling to access” abortion.
But the co-creators seem more concerned with proper ‘representation’ than with presenting the truth about the abortion industry. If abortion depictions were truly reflective of reality, they would portray what many women and former abortion industry employees have reported and what undercover investigations have shown: that Planned Parenthood is laser-focused on abortion (as evidenced by its abysmal prenatal service offerings compared to its lion’s share of […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker