3 days and 3 comments later. RH Reality finally corrects some of their reporting errors...

RH Reality check took three days and three comments  to correct their error that said the Ed Henry is a legislator from AL not TN. It started with a pix of the wrong Ed Henry self confessing that he was post abortive...the pix was of Fox News Ed Henry not the legislator.  That was corrected the first day but the post erroneously said he represented TN. Wrong..... even the linked to story was from AL. It took three days and three comments  pointing out the error for that correction to take place. They obviously had been fed some talking points from their TN surrogates and wanted to get  those in and tried to tie them to the story about Ed Henry from AL publicly discussing the abortion of 20 yrs back that he regretted.
 
They then continued with inaccurate information about some pro life bills...some already long passed and some pending.  Their final sentence in this sloppy piece of journalism ends with a snarky warning that pretty soon TN will want to pass an anti coercion bill if they continue down this life affirming path. Well hello..... we already have an anti coercion bill in TN...but really??? ....you favor coerced abortion RH Reality?????


Okay, not to get on their error filled  viewpoint bandwagon...my concern in this post is that in the spirit of anyone can make a mistake is that  it took three days and three comments to get them to realize their inaccurate piece and when they finally got it through their biased heads that they had reported the wrong state for Henry, their inaccurate reporting of TN seemed further out of place so they just deleted it.


So to end where I began  with them...fact check much???? Anyone can make a simple mistake but apparently in her desire to spread erroneous information to the faithful about TN, RH blogger Robin Marty  had no time to fact check her own work.  All this adds up to good work pro life legislators in TN speaking for pro life TN. Keep up the good work.

RH Reality fails to fact check own work. Ed Henry is from AL not TN and has wrong pix....just the beginning of their errors.....

Oh this is priceless... the Google alert brings up a story about abortion in TN....so I click on the story  from RH Reality  Check and find it so full of errors as to be embarrassing. Fact check over there...not too much! And I thought that was the place  that says you should go for "fact based" information.


Well this story is about 'TN legislator Ed Henry 'who is now pro life stating that he regrets the abortion 20 years ago he agreed to with his  girlfriend.  Horrors that someone could regret their abortion decision and a man at that. He is now pro life. But back to my point. There is no TN legislator by that name and the pictures shown there is of the Fox News man Ed Henry. Well I did some checking .....something RH needs to consider doing  and Ed Henry is a legislator in the state of AL....close to TN but whole different state and he is not the news reporter.


So then I read the rest of the story denigrating TN and see further misrepresentations....nice way of saying.....lies. They quote SJR 127 and say the purpose is to have a constitutional ban on abortion. This is the way the abortion industry intends to spin the constitutional amendment that is necessary to restore  abortion restrictions voted into place by a bi partisan majority in the House and Senate such as informed consent, waiting periods and that late term abortions be performed in hospitals as opposed to unlicensed, uninspected and unregulated abortion mills. These restrictions were taken away when the ACLU and Planned Parenthood sued the state of TN and per the dissenting judge the only way to bring back them back  in pro life TN is to have a constitutional amendment. This is not a constitutional ban on abortions....but hey what are a  few facts   errors here and there in the abortion for profit industry.

As to the other factual errors... the ban on abortion in insurance coverage  should say using tax payer money to pay for abortions.  Small detail, I know.

And TN already has an anti coercion bill....do you object to that? Do you support coercion??

 But stating the abortion docs should have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals...they got that one right. It is a pending bill at this time.  Radical idea isn't it that the doc performing a surgical procedure on you  should have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital in the event of complications.  Totally unnecessary I guess when you can just ship the injured woman off in a taxi to the nearest ER room for them to handle cause the busy doc has paying patients waiting......


As I am typing this...RH Reality realizes a portion of their sloppy reporting.... they change the pix of Ed Henry to the real Ed Henry...but I have the first screen shot saved. Maybe Fox's Ed Henry called and complained...hey, not me. We will see when the correct the rest of the errors....

Bad morning reporter Robin???

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Tennessee lawmaker Ed Henry is working hard to pass anti-choice legislation in the state.  His reason?  To atone for an abortion that he "allowed" his girlfriend to have 20 years earlier.
Via The Times Daily:

“I murdered my first child,” Henry, a freshman Republican, told a crowd at an anti-abortion rally outside the Statehouse.
Henry, 41, said he went with his girlfriend, whom he didn’t name, when she had the abortion.
He said they had made the decision to abort together, but today he said he places most of the responsibility on himself.
“There was discussion and talk about it, but I do feel a heavy burden from the decision,” he said.
And it was his experience and regret years later that have made him an anti-abortion advocate, he said.

Tennessee is working on a constitutional ban on abortion, wants to mandate that all abortion providers to have hospital privileges, and is fighting to block insurance coverage for safe abortion care in the state. If they follow the example of other states, it's only a matter of time before an "anti-coercion" bill gets introduced.
When that happens, how much time does Henry think the person who coerces a woman into an abortion should serve in jail?  And would he be willing to serve as an example?  After all, he does say, "I didn’t have the right to do what I did... The law says it is OK, but I did not have the right.”

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