| By Kay Steiger - Oct 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm EDT |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
Broadsheet does some good work at keeping the MSM honest. Apparently Reuters thought RU-486 and Plan B are the same thing. They're not. Broadsheet explains why:
So what's the big deal, you ask? The abortion pill, the morning-after pill -- they all end pregnancies, right? Well, no. As many of you no doubt already know, the morning-after pill prevents pregnancy by blocking embryos from implanting in the uterus. RU-486, on the other hand, terminates an already established pregnancy. So in the first article, when the pope criticized drugs "whose aim is to stop an embryo implanting," he could not have been talking about RU-486. And yet for some reason, Reuters devotes the entire article to "the abortion pill" without making a distinction between Plan B and RU-486. In fact, the article doesn't even mention Plan B or, for that matter, refer to RU-486 by name.

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