CV NEWS FEED // Pro-life activists at Live Action are pushing back against mainstream media responses to the latest Alabama Supreme Court ruling that determined “unborn children are children.”
Responding to a “pro-abortion hit piece” published by AP News on Thursday, Founder and President of Live Action Lila Rose stated in a press release: “It is disappointing that the Associated Press seems determined to challenge the fact that human beings in the womb are human beings.”
“Unfortunately, their pro-abortion bias has gotten in the way of objective journalism,” she added.
As CatholicVote previously reported, the Alabama Supreme Court recently overturned a previous ruling from a lower court in a couple’s lawsuit against fertility treatment after their embryos were destroyed by a wandering patient. The Supreme Court’s decision allowed the couple to sue the facility under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.
The decision has since sparked a flurry of reactions from mainstream media outlets contesting the extension of the Act’s protections to unborn children from the moment of fertilization.
The article published by AP News targets a video produced by Live Action depicting the development of a fetus, Baby Olivia, in the womb from the moment of conception till birth.
AP News expressed concern that Live Action’s Baby Olivia video could become regular viewing in sex education classes in states such as Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia which have passed pro life bills.
“Baby Olivia isn’t a real baby,” the article begins, describing the video as “deceptive and problematic for a young audience.” The article also cites a statement from The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [ACOG] which calls the video anti-abortion misinformation “designed to manipulate the emotions of viewers.”
“ACOG is anything but impartial about abortion,” Live Action stated in its release, pointing our that ACOG receives funding from several pro-abortion organizations, such as Ibis Reproductive Health and David and Lucile Packard Foundation, “both of which have financial ties to abortion pill manufacturer Danco Laboratories.”
“It is tragic that basic facts about human biology are so controversial for abortion supporters in 2024,” Rose continued, noting that the ACOG “has become a highly politicized organization that, despite the disagreement of thousands of its members, advocates for abortion on demand.”
“The only medical expert the AP could find who would go on record for the piece criticizing Baby Olivia is the co-founder of a pro-abortion activist group in Iowa,” said Rose, pointing out that AP News referred to this “expert,” co-founder of Iowans for Health Liberty Emily Boevers, as an advocate for “reproductive healthcare,” disguising the fact that the group’s main objective is “opposing all abortion restrictions.”
“It is a fact that children in the womb are human beings; they will possess traits that are characteristic of their species,” Rose concluded:
Live Action and the medical experts we collaborated with stand by the scientific accuracy of every aspect in Baby Olivia.
Every student in America should have access to world-class educational materials on the science behind human development in the womb.
