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Introduction To Abortion: Current Controversies

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Readers readily accept information and arguments given by the media, spreading opinions that agree with their mentality and rejecting perspectives that do not. The public composed of these readers assumes that the spread of misinformation corrupts the media, disregarding the premise of media as an outlet of different ideas and opinions. Specifically, readers blame the media for deceiving the public when it is the responsibility of the readers to avoid the perpetuation of misinformation. Focusing on the American debate on abortion rights, online articles support this idea. “Introduction to Abortion: Current Controversies,” published on the Gale Group Database in 2015 by the authors of Current Controversies: Abortion, remains neutral in the debate …show more content…

Starting with the key case of Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion in all fifty states, the article explains how the case affected different aspects of American society, including medical advancements for abortion procedures and political debates with typically anti-abortion Republicans against pro-abortion Democrats. Due to a knowledgeable take on the abortion debate, the authors of Current Controversies: Abortion provide a general overview on the significance of the abortion rights debate, claiming interested neutrality with the disclaimer of their sole interest in controversies relating to moral justifications of abortion, harmful procedural effects on women, societal changes in regards to the debate, and general debates on abortion laws. As a neutral source, the article serves the public by using a multitude of sources from news websites and research institutes to describe the usage of specific events as modern propaganda for the opposing sides. It describes a previous court case accusing physician Kermit Gosnell of performing illegal late-term abortions and killing three infants immediately after birth, saying, “The Gosnell case horrified the American public and reignited a sense of purpose among anti-abortion activists, who have seen an uptick in public support for TRAP laws and a renewed willingness among members of Congress to consider anti-abortion bills, particularly those restricting late-term procedures. . .While those who support abortion rights, such as Guttmacher, were equally repulsed by the Gosnell case, they maintain that restricting access to abortion and birth control is the problem rather than the solution to preventing such atrocities (Introduction).” After the conviction of Kermit Gosnell, the opposing sides of the abortion debate both used the case to promote

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