No, Gianna Jessen, Part Ii: Stop lying about Planned Parenthood!

[moriah]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/14/1421113/-No-Gianna-Jessen-Part-II-Stop-Lying-About-Planned-Parenthood

Last week, I examined the body of evidence surrounding the story of Gianna Jessen, a woman who was born alive in April of 1977 during an attempted third-trimester saline abortion. She testified before Congress last Wednesday implicating Planned Parenthood in her mother's abortion, which led many different blogs and news outlets of various qualities to incorrectly report that Gianna was actually born at a Planned Parenthood facility. One more irresponsible one even reported that the stock image she showed Congress of a a 22-week old fetus killed during a saline abortion was actually a picture of Gianna herself at birth. (Yes, even The Rude Pundit got suckered.)

Gianna Jessen has never presented any proof that her mother ever stepped foot in a Planned Parenthood clinic, and the very questionable 1995 biography by Jessica Shaver reveals that the only source for her claims that her mother received coercive counseling from Planned Parenthood is the second-hand account from "Tina", a woman private investigators located in the early '90s claiming to be her biological mother. That lurid account of a scared pro-life teenager being deceived and coerced into a horrific late-term abortion attempt has glaring factual inconsistencies, including the claim that "You Light Up My Life" was being played on Los Angeles radio stations in April of 1977, months before it was released.

Even though the biography and Gianna's birth certificate prove that her mother's saline abortion was performed at Avalon Memorial Hospital by Dr. Edward C. Allred, pro-life websites and blogs continue to report that Planned Parenthood performed her mother's abortion... and Gianna has never corrected them. She appears to carefully construct her statements to support this myth without lying outright, even though she seems to have no problems letting others lie for her.

But at what point does careful speech and omission of critical facts cross over into a full-blown "lie"? A recent Tweet, in my opinion, crossed that line. Judge for yourself!

I'm amazed how many "news" agencies don't employ fact-checkers.

[randys1]

1. When I heard her speaking I kind of figured she was lying about something

I have a rule, if a rightwinger is speaking, I assume every word is a lie.

[moriah]

2. Good plan!

It seems like that's the way of things.

[Panich52]

3. Anti-choicers hate facts. They get in the way of ideology & theology