It Is Time Media Got Abortion Reporting Right
Media coverage should reflect the complexities of abortion experiences, including among adolescents, people from every gender and married women with children.
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Media coverage should reflect the complexities of abortion experiences, including among adolescents, people from every gender and married women with children.
As the abortion stigma is linked to its potential impact on access to services, knowing how to portray abortions on television and in the media can help healthcare advocates and providers identify and respond to the stigma.
Political rhetoric and sensationalist framings perpetuate abortion stigma and normalise a moralising stance towards it.
Abortion coverage in mainstream media spikes around legislation and litigation, rather than as a matter of healthcare, usually with a controversial theme that constructs abortion as both emotionally and physically risky.
The article talks about the rise of Islamophobia in India has taken on a lethal form under the BJP government, escalating anti-muslim crimes. The proliferation of Hindu-nationalist parties, including the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has enabled anti-Muslim sentiment to flourish, leading to violence, intimidation, and other forms of oppression against the Muslim population. This sentiment is propagated through hate speeches, mass gatherings, and even calls for the rape of Muslim women. The complicit nature of the majority and state has led to physical and mental trauma for the 200 million Muslim population. Additionally, dissenters are often labeled anti-national, and arbitrary arrests of Muslim students, activists, journalists, and lawyers have increased under terrorism charges.
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