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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Abortion Coverage Leaves Women out of the Picture By Tiffany Devitt As a background graphic for reports on abortion, TV has sometimes used a depiction of a late-term fetus hanging in space, with no connection to a pregnant woman. The "floating fetus" logo is in sync with the media's tendency to push women out of the public's mental picture of the abortion issue. In recent years, national media have heavily covered the issue of abortion. In 1989 and 1990, close to 1500 articles on abortion appeared in major dailies; the weeklies -- Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report -- have featured stories on abortion more regularly than any other social policy issue. However, as is the case with other social policy issues such as civil rights or welfare, abortion is more often covered not from the perspective of those most affected by the issue, but from the standpoint of Washington politics. According to the National Newspaper Index of major dailies, there were more articles on how the issue of abortion has affected various political candidacies, races and parties than there were articles on how women with unwanted pregnancies are affected by growing restrictions on funding and counseling. Though former Gov. Bob Martinez of Florida will never have an abortion, a Washington Post headline declared (8/1/89): "Governor at Risk on Abortion Issue." While it is individual women, not political parties, who confront the choice to terminate a pregnancy, a Wall Street Journal headline stated(10/20/89): "Abortion Debate Proves Painful for Republicans." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1483 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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