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COMMENTARY: When readers drill down into women’s complaints about the pill, they don’t seem so illegitimate, and they certainly don’t fit the definition of ‘misinformation.’
The Washington Post and other left-leaning outlets are terrified that women are making choices — specifically, the choice to drop hormonal birth control in favor of more natural — and, increasingly, more scientific, options.
The “Democracy Dies in Darkness” publication fretted publicly, last month, that women were falling prey to “misinformation” propagated, they suggested, by a vast right-wing anti-birth-control conspiracy, using social-media platforms, to wean poor, unsuspecting women off the monthly pill.
Media Matters for America, a somewhat more sinister publication connected to left-wing activist organizations, was similarly aghast at an “underlying conservative push” by “right-wing influencers” to, it seems, provide women with more natural choices in maintaining their fertility, citing The Washington Post’s “investigation” to conclude something must be done about this “influencer fearmongering.”
The Washington Post story on misinformation, ironically, is rife with its own misinformation. Citing few statistics and even fewer examples, the piece — which clocks in at well over 3,000 words — takes paragraphs to get to its central point: that some online personalities are now speaking out about their personal, negative experiences with chemical birth control. It never, however, provides proof that birth control isn’t causing a host of medical problems for young women.
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The Washington Post and other left-leaning outlets are terrified that women are making choices — specifically, the choice to drop hormonal birth control in favor of more natural — and, increasingly, more scientific, options.
The “Democracy Dies in Darkness” publication fretted publicly, last month, that women were falling prey to “misinformation” propagated, they suggested, by a vast right-wing anti-birth-control conspiracy, using social-media platforms, to wean poor, unsuspecting women off the monthly pill.
Media Matters for America, a somewhat more sinister publication connected to left-wing activist organizations, was similarly aghast at an “underlying conservative push” by “right-wing influencers” to, it seems, provide women with more natural choices in maintaining their fertility, citing The Washington Post’s “investigation” to conclude something must be done about this “influencer fearmongering.”
The Washington Post story on misinformation, ironically, is rife with its own misinformation. Citing few statistics and even fewer examples, the piece — which clocks in at well over 3,000 words — takes paragraphs to get to its central point: that some online personalities are now speaking out about their personal, negative experiences with chemical birth control. It never, however, provides proof that birth control isn’t causing a host of medical problems for young women.
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The Hormonal Hatchet Job
COMMENTARY: When readers drill down into women’s complaints about the pill, they don’t seem so illegitimate, and they certainly don’t fit the definition of ‘misinformation.’
