Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected to Live 'Normal' Life

A mother who decided to abort her son because he may have inherited a life-threatening kidney condition is overjoyed that he survived the procedure.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,363434,00.html

I expect this thread to possibly get ugly. :hide:

Wrote it up. Edited. Edited again. Edited one more time and said "no right way to say that" and backed out. :rofl:

How fortunate that this story has a happy ending...

I'm happy for them...

:hi:

Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor for FOXNews.com, said Percival's situation is actually quite common.



Thy headlineists shalt pay heed to thine own consultants. :eyes:

we haven't had those since ...

Hell, I don't think Yeshua existed any more than Mithra or Zoroaster did.





You're right, OR, no miracles here.

especially in a profession that's supposed to be known for objectivity and for reporting only that which is known. But our news media rarely miss an opportunity for tacit (at least) acknowledgement that a Judeo-Christian god exists and has influence on all life.

This one stands out, though, since Faux quotes its own "expert" as saying this is actually common. We learn in Journalism 101 that headlines should agree with the stories below them.

Several headlines today are the exact opposite of the story. I'm wondering if they've discovered that it's OK to print the news as long as you spin the headline, apparently read past the bold print.

I remember the print media requirement of "fitting" your headline (doubt that's necessary anymore) and the abused meaning because of it. These headlines just defy the actual meaning of the story.

or the context, but the reason many heds don't go with the story is the rush to be "first," which happens more and more since the advent of online journalism. Too often, copy editors (or, more frequently these days, web-graphics people with no journalism background) read only the first couple of grafs of a story and write the hed based on that. It's a dangerous practice.

information. It's been a long time since freshman journalism. I meant actually finding a headline that could be fitted into the alloted space. A balance of type face, point size, and sometimes a 3rd compromise, actual meaning.

Since there was no "spellcheck", they had to actually proofread everything, so the meaning was more often garbled by squeezing the message down.

I've ben gen-gapped, nodowt!

:blush:

EDIT: extra embarrassing, I forgot to proof!

:blush:

Whenever a reporter said to me "I spell-checked it," I'd just look away and roll my eyes. I'm gonna run spell check almost without thinking before I even start to read the story. Reporters should always read their stuff before they file it.

When I was a sportswriter, I had one editor who'd look at every hed on a galley (this was in 1995-96; we were still doing paste-up) and tap each word in it with his blue pen as he read it out loud five times: "Catz beat Aptos in OT; Catz beat Aptos in OT; Catz beat Aptos in OT; Catz beat Aptos in OT; Catz beat Aptos in OT."

It was annoying, but he never missed anything. :)

Anyway, hed specs in print can be a mofo. If you've got a 36-2-2 or whatever, you've gotta make the words fit it; there's no leeway. And, often, it just ain't that easy. That's why you see so many three-letter verbs and other jargon-ish words like "Supes eye tax hike." (I hate "eye" as a verb, but whaya gonna do with two columns?)



Uh... I didn't mean for this to turn into a journalism lesson. :blush:

Thanks, OP. Civil discussion, wow!

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At least, that's where I first saw them eons ago.



And, yeah — they're real. AJR gets tons of stuff like that in its "Take 2" column. It doesn't have to make 'em up. :)

:7

:eyes:

the whole piece is sloppy

it's Faux Journalism.



Or, faux journalism. They're interchangeable; caps optional.

:popcorn:

over. :popcorn:

"a short time after the abortion, Percival felt a fluttering in her stomach. She went to the doctor for a scan and discovered she was 19 weeks pregnant."

she had the abortion at 8 weeks and when she discovered she was still pregnant, she was at 19 weeks. that's 11 weeks after the abortion...nearly 3 months. that's not a short time. then the doctors say it's rare, but the faux news health editor says it's common. but we don't even know if her doctors or the hospital said that, there is no corroboration.

this story smells

You oughta be an editor. :thumbsup:

It HAS to be true.

i forgot about that ;)

No?

We got a room fulla editors here. :thumbsup:

if it dies

On a spiritual level, that baby REALLY wanted to come in and REALLY wanted those parents.

The parents get to move through their own emotional and spiritual process of expanding their hearts and welcoming another member of their family.

Fascinating story and, to me, very uplifting.

We are ALL connected....regardless of whatever we think of such divisive issues as abortion.

as witnessed by Oedi and johnnie and others.

I am happy that the parents are content with this turn of events and hope for the best for the whole family.

I salute you!

And does not involve anything supernatural.

:hi:

Just because something makes you "feel good" doesn't make it true.

:sarcasm:

Seriously, though, It's good the mother is pleased with the outcome.

The numbers don't add up and early abortion is just a D&C (pretty basic).

I guess she and the doctor might have fucked up, but this story doesn't smell right.

Khash.

and only one fetus was aborted.

Historical context: Early in 19*cough*cough*, KaMakuahineOKamaAina (or "Mom" for short) apparently miscarried. I say "apparently" because, after the doctors told her "It's okay, Mrs. KamaAina, you can have plenty of other children", it was determined that she was still pregnant -- ultimately, much to the chagrin of many Loungers!

edit: grammar :dunce:

Remember his brother, McAbel?

And how do you know I didn't kill my SISTER, smarty-pants? :P

No wonder men there have this strange urge to wear nothing under their kilts.

If this "life begins at conception" stuff ever catches on, I'm goin' down! :scared:

:sarcasm:

edit: quotes

sent to a lab to be looked at? Wouldn't someone at the lab have noticed there wasn't anything there unless maybe she was pregnant with twins? Please and thank you.