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This article lists examples of Bias in Wikipedia, related to Abortion:
- Wikipedia has a large article detailing anti-abortion violence committed around the world,[1] but there is no article about pro-abortion violence, like that which resulted in the September 11, 2009, death of peaceful protester Jim Pouillon. There is no article for "Pro-choice violence"[2] and "Pro-abortion violence" bizarrely redirects to the "Pro-life movement" article section about "Term controversy."[3] Before being redirected, the "Pro-abortion violence" article was biased towards downplaying the reality of violence committed by supporters of abortion.[4] For example, while the "Anti-abortion violence" article matter-of-factly begins: "Anti-abortion violence is violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion." ...the "Pro-abortion violence" article dismissingly began: "Pro-abortion violence (or pro-choice violence) is a term used in the pro-life movement to characterize acts of violence committed by abortion practitioners or abortion advocates against those who oppose abortion or against pregnant women. The former is regarded as factual while the latter is just "a term used in the pro-life movement."
- Wikipedia changes the meaning of a key quote from an abortion-breast cancer article in the Lancet medical journal (Beral, et al.), falsely stating that it "concluded that abortion does 'not increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.'"[5] The Lancet article said no such thing about a woman's decision to have an abortion, which does increase the woman's risk of breast cancer. Rather, the Lancet article limited its assertion to a claim about the overall effect of a pregnancy that terminates early.[6]
- Wikipedia's entry on Benazir Bhutto has nearly 8,000 words on all aspects of her life, and yet not one word acknowledging that she was pro-life and led the movement against the United Nations' creating a new international right to abortion.[7]
- Type in "conservative" on Wikipedia and you will be redirected to over 4500 words of confusion without any mention of marriage, gun rights or personal accountability. Wikipedia even claims that conservatives opposed to abortion are described as "anti-baby" or "anti-family". Wikipedia removed this bias only after it was identified here.[8]
- Wikipedia's entry on abortion reads like a brochure for the abortion industry. Wikipedia denies and omits the results of 16 out of 17 statistically significant studies showing increased risk of breast cancer from abortion.[9] Wikipedia's entry also omits the evidence of abortion causing increased premature birth of subsequent children.[10] Instead of providing these facts, Wikipedia blames women by declaring that "breast cancer elicits disproportionate fear in women"![11]
- Wikipedia omits an entry on fetal pain, and instead redirects visitors to a different entry that denies the obvious pain experienced by unborn children during an abortion. Nine peer-reviewed studies confirm that there is fetal pain beginning at 20 weeks, as presented during legislative hearings in 2010 on the Nebraska Abortion Pain Prevention Act, but Wikipedia insists on liberal denial and citation to only a few implausible, pro-abortion claims.[12]
References
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-choice_violence
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-abortion_violence
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pro-abortion_violence&oldid=298226073
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-breast_cancer_hypothesis
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15051280
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
- ↑ That statement remained on the article from November 23 to December 26, 2007
- ↑ http://www.jpands.org/vol8no2/malec.pdf
- ↑ http://www.jpands.org/vol8no2/rooney.pdf
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion-breast_cancer_hypothesis
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_pain