Disaster NPR shocks by airing audio of woman getting an abortion: 'Disturbing and evil on every level' - NPR correspondent notes 'soothing music' playing, says it feels 'like a childbirth'

By Brian Flood | Fox News
Published November 3, 2022 4:26pm EDT

NPR shocked social media on Thursday when it aired audio of a Michigan woman having an abortion.

The 11-minute segment noted that women have been traveling to Michigan in "record numbers" in search of abortions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year. The polarizing issue is on the ballot when Michiganders head out to vote on Election Day, and NPR dispatched journalist Kate Wells to an abortion clinic outside Detroit to observe procedures and talk to patients.

Along the way, Wells met a woman who decided to terminate a pregnancy and allowed NPR to record the audio. The woman had her abortion at "about 11 weeks," according to Wells, who put a spotlight on the dim lighting and "soothing music" that she claimed makes it feel "a lot like a childbirth."


A group of anti-abortion protesters crashes the Women's March Action Rally for Reproductive Rights at Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles, California, on Oct. 8, 2022. ( DAVID MCNEW / AFP) (Photo by DAVID MCNEW/AFP via Getty Images)

Listeners were told the woman would be "partially awake," and the sound of a machine could be heard terminating her pregnancy as a staffer named Brandy consoled the distraught woman. At one point, the woman says the cramps as it's happening are to painful.

"Within just a couple of minutes, it’s over," Wells told listeners as the woman moaned.

"You did it," Brandy said. "You did great."

Conservative strategist Greg Price hesitantly shared a clip of NPR’s audio, which quickly went viral and outraged conservatives.

"I almost didn't want to tweet this but it's something everyone needs to know. NPR on the radio this morning played audio of a woman getting an abortion. You can hear the vacuum turning on, crying, moaning, and the doctor telling her it's done. Warning: It's tough to listen to," Price wrote with the accompanying audio.

"The left always talks in euphemisms when it comes to abortion. ‘Choice,’ ‘reproductive care,’ etc. But this clip puts on full display what an abortion actually is: violence and full on dehumanization of the unborn. That's why it's important to share. To show reality," Price wrote in a follow-up tweet.

"So listen to that audio. It's incredibly tough but it's important," he added. "Listen to it and then think to yourself about how the only pitch the Democrat Party is making to the voters in the midterm election is more of that."


NPR shocked listeners on Thursday when it aired audio of a Michigan woman having an abortion. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Many on the right questioned NPR's decision and whether it would backfire, while others were simply disgusted.

"Hard to imagine what NPR was thinking with this. But pro-life ads have often been taken down or rejected for showing how horrific an abortion process is. If NPR's goal was to normalize abortions, it seems like this chilling segment might have the opposite impact," GOP communications flack Matt Whitlock wrote.

NPR did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"This is disturbing and evil on every level," the conservative Media Research Center tweeted.


McKayla Wolff left and Karen Wolff, joined hands as they rallied for abortion rights at the capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Sunday July 17, 2022. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images) (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune)

"I couldn’t bring myself to listen to it. This is not mercy," author Helen Raleigh wrote.

"So disturbing," author Chadwich Moore responded while the Young America's Foundation responded simply, "Gross."

Popular Twitter account Libs of TikTok called it "demonic," and journalist Bethany Mandel refused to listen.

"I’m going to caveat this tweet with the fact that I am have not and will not listen to it. But this kind of tactic, showing Americans the reality of abortion, might really backfire," Mandel responded.

Fox News Radio’s Guy Benson called it "stomach-turning" and Daily Caller’s Nicole Silverio called it "heart wrenching."

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[RussianBlonde]

LMAO this is clearly fake and you retards are falling for it like libs fall for "alt right". Sensationalized by "you've done great" allegedly said by the doctor once done, which is precisely what every doctor from a surgeon to a dentist will say to the patient at the end of medical procedure.

Which precisely what abortion is, a medical procedure. You think its wrong then dont have it but dont be like troons and try to ban something cos you dont like it.

NPR being unintentionally based by posting audio evidence of this abhorrent "procedure." It is my fervent hope that women considering this hear it and decide to let their own child live.



I hope this disgusting piece of shit hears this audio and it is seared in her brain for the rest of her life. I hope it plays on a loop in her head at a deafening volume as she chokes back bitter tears and the life ebbs out of her after downing a handful of pills and a gallon of boxed wine.

I hope it traumatizes hundreds of thousands of child killers and they think about their crime in the wee hours of the morning as they lay there desperate to fall asleep but the slumber evades them. I hope they are perpetually chased by guilt and are mercilessly mocked by the demons they attracted to themselves.

Most of all, on the day of their judgment I hope the facilitators of this murder are given the gift of perfect understanding of the evil they perpetuated right before they are dragged into the depths of hell for an eternity of suffering.

God help us all, we are complicit in this evil for failing to stop it and punish the perpetrators and participants.

Aboritonists tongue my anus, and screeching liberals can drown in my fucking balls. I hate you all with the most perfect hatred. Know that my loathing for you is beyond description.

Nigga Ive heard it and if anything any woman considering having an abortion but being scared will hear this and all her fears will disappear like a fart in the wind. Few minutes, no pain, a bit of suction and she's done. Visit to the dentist is more traumatizing than that.

 

[Megaton Punch]

Me, then: "I can't wait for the high tech future where everyone lives to be 200 and none of us have to work because robots!"

Me, now: "I just hope the death of western civilization isn't too unpleasant."

 

[Ser Prize]

LMAO this is clearly fake and you retards are falling for it like libs fall for "alt right". Sensationalized by "you've done great" allegedly said by the doctor once done, which is precisely what every doctor from a surgeon to a dentist will say to the patient at the end of medical procedure.

Which precisely what abortion is, a medical procedure. You think its wrong then dont have it but dont be like troons and try to ban something cos you dont like it.



Nigga Ive heard it and if anything any woman considering having an abortion but being scared will hear this and all her fears will disappear like a fart in the wind. Few minutes, no pain, a bit of suction and she's done. Visit to the dentist is more traumatizing than that.

You confirm my post.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

The blatant abortion worship in the modern feminist movement has firmly convinced me that women have no souls.

On the other hand, the abortion industry is funded and facilitated by men (who they say have no say in the matter of abortion, but we'll put that aside).

then again, they ALSO comprise the muscle of the anti-abortion movement...

LMAO this is clearly fake

It's a "good" thing that we're both in agreement that this is beyond abhorrent, to the point that you have to simultaneously deny its veracity and argue the typicality of the depicted events.

You think its wrong then dont have it but dont be like troons and try to ban something cos you dont like it.

"If you think [putting your child through a medical gauntlet to get SRS and HRT] is wrong then don't do it"

 

[tehpope]

Me, then: "I can't wait for the high tech future where everyone lives to be 200 and none of us have to work because robots!"

Me, now: "I just hope the death of western civilization isn't too unpleasant."

Uncle Ted had the right idea. He was just an underachiever.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

I have no real opinion on abortion, but this is clearly a fetish for these (((people))).

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Abortion loving terfs: "lol it's totally fake! Can't be real! It simultaneously is NOT actually disturbing, AND it is fake, because it has disturbed some people. Which matters because there's nothing wrong with abortion!"

At least try to make some damn sense.

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Abortion loving terfs: "lol it's totally fake! Can't be real! It simultaneously is NOT actually disturbing, AND it is fake, because it has disturbed some people. Which matters because there's nothing wrong with abortion!"

At least try to make some damn sense.

They will never make sense because their entire worldview is predicated on mental gymnastics and denial of observable reality.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Back to when exactly as women have been killing their own born children and others for as long they've been able to. Killing the unborn is just the another iteration of infanticide.

Back to when it wasn't celebrated ,bragged about, used for profit for baby part mills, and wasn't considered something great and wonderful that everyone should do.

If I said that all young men should go and stab a fucking camel-jockey child in the throat at least once as a passage of manhood, I'd rightly be considered a lunatic.

But apparently, nowadays, it should be a rite of womanhood to have an abortion and you have famous people lamenting that they never had one.

So, yeah, take me back to when it wasn't celebrated.

Women have been killing children, sure, but it sure as fuck wasn't considered a good thing.

 

[Chandelier]

NPR being unintentionally based by posting audio evidence of this abhorrent "procedure." It is my fervent hope that women considering this hear it and decide to let their own child live.



I hope this disgusting piece of shit hears this audio and it is seared in her brain for the rest of her life. I hope it plays on a loop in her head at a deafening volume as she chokes back bitter tears and the life ebbs out of her after downing a handful of pills and a gallon of boxed wine.

I hope it traumatizes hundreds of thousands of child killers and they think about their crime in the wee hours of the morning as they lay there desperate to fall asleep but the slumber evades them. I hope they are perpetually chased by guilt and are mercilessly mocked by the demons they attracted to themselves.

Most of all, on the day of their judgment I hope the facilitators of this murder are given the gift of perfect understanding of the evil they perpetuated right before they are dragged into the depths of hell for an eternity of suffering.

God help us all, we are complicit in this evil for failing to stop it and punish the perpetrators and participants.

Aboritonists tongue my anus, and screeching liberals can drown in my fucking balls. I hate you all with the most perfect hatred. Know that my loathing for you is beyond description.

Here's the upside. Here are adoption rates by race. So no, it won't traumatize them as the ones you wish to save the most simply don't get adopted. Ironic don't you think?

Quick question. Do you think a woman like this should be punished?

@TheNothingness what do you think would happen if we ramped up 6/52?

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Here's the upside. Here are adoption rates by race. So no, it won't traumatize them as the ones you wish to save the most simply don't get adopted. Ironic don't you think?

Quick question. Do you think a woman like this should be punished?

@TheNothingness what do you think would happen if we ramped up 6/52?

Yes I think she should be punished with better anesthesia, cleaner ORs, proximity to ICU care in case of an emergency, comfortable recovery with room service and an RN at her beck and call to bring meds, and pre- and post-natal mental health care and grief counseling and the presence of a chaplain or minister from the religion of her choice. I think this is a far more just as a consequence for being cursed with a horrible medical misfortune than being hacked at by some alcoholic washout in a "clinic" in the middle of godforsaken Nebraska.

 

[Chandelier]

No, I refuse to listen to this, a murder of the most helpless.

fuck those demons

“What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”

Nah I did. Just sounded like a vacuum cleaner. No rip and tear, sadly. Not even a plop.

Conservatives are going to hold true to this. Too bad they didn't include a photo - more baby gore pics are needed. In any case, say it lived. mom carried it to term. You think these talking heads will step up to help? Nah. Adoption rate stats are pretty black pilling - pardon the pun.

A gentle reminder that 40% of the black population is culled through abortion. Not that BLM supporters care.

And most are low SES, and do not use birth control. If you remember the woman who went, "someone needs to pay. For all my (15) children. Someone needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay."

Well, time to pay. And black babies are statistically less likely to be adopted by the pro life side. Strange.

Yes I think she should be punished with better anesthesia, cleaner ORs, proximity to ICU care in case of an emergency, comfortable recovery with room service and an RN at her beck and call to bring meds, and pre- and post-natal mental health care and grief counseling and the presence of a chaplain or minister from the religion of her choice. I think this is a far more just as a consequence for being cursed with a horrible medical misfortune than being hacked at by some alcoholic washout in a "clinic" in the middle of godforsaken Nebraska.

Sure. But she wasn't given that. That's the other side of this debate: where wanted kids end up in doomed pregnancies, and there are no exceptions for it. These laws aren't crafted with situations like this in mind. Even those with incomplete miscarriages are told to suffer.

I don't know how this will impact abortion on the ballot over there, but we'll see.

 

[Markass the Worst]

A gentle reminder that 40% of the black population is culled through abortion. Not that BLM supporters care.

BLM don't care that the vast majority of black people are killed by other black people either. Or the amount of fatherless black families. Or how black hood culture is violent. Or any of the myriad of issues actually affecting black people.

No, instead they chimp out when a guy who fatally overdosed on fentanyl dies with a knee on his neck and cause nationwide riots with death and property destruction.

 

[Ser Prize]

Nah I did. Just sounded like a vacuum cleaner. No rip and tear, sadly. Not even a plop.

Conservatives are going to hold true to this. Too bad they didn't include a photo - more baby gore pics are needed. In any case, say it lived. mom carried it to term. You think these talking heads will step up to help? Nah. Adoption rate stats are pretty black pilling - pardon the pun.


And most are low SES, and do not use birth control. If you remember the woman who went, "someone needs to pay. For all my (15) children. Someone needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay."

Well, time to pay. And black babies are statistically less likely to be adopted by the pro life side. Strange.

Sure. But she wasn't given that. That's the other side of this debate: where wanted kids end up in doomed pregnancies, and there are no exceptions for it. These laws aren't crafted with situations like this in mind. Even those with incomplete miscarriages are told to suffer.

I don't know how this will impact abortion on the ballot over there, but we'll see.

You also prove my original post. How someone can be this blase about this confounds and disgusts me.

 

[Chandelier]

You also prove my original post. How someone can be this blase about this confounds and disgusts me.

Abortion articles and the debates therein will always be spicy. We had the Live Action PP videos, we've got placards Right to Life carries with baby gore photos on them.

Honestly the audio, or something equivalent to it, was always going to emerge. It's political for a reason.

My blase attitude is the result of that. Btw, NPR also has Eric Rudolph's full confession, so it evens out in a way.

 

[RussianBlonde]

Abortion loving terfs: "lol it's totally fake! Can't be real! It simultaneously is NOT actually disturbing, AND it is fake, because it has disturbed some people. Which matters because there's nothing wrong with abortion!"

At least try to make some damn sense.

It only disturbed pro-lifers who most likely think a zygote has a soul. It's circulating on radio waves around swampy bumfuck towns of bible belt so pro life crowd can clutch their pearls in disgust of baby murdering sluts.

I mean it's a baby being murdered there in that operation room!! There should be loud cries of traumatized mother accompanied by the sound of a chainsaw as the evil doctor cuts the baby to pieces and the blood is splattering all over the walls!

Instead, it's a normal procedure, quick, painless with a doctor reassuring patient everything went ok.

What would be the purpose of recording something like that, if not for the shock value, and do you think they just let people in the operating rooms so they can record the audio?



Also a vacuum aspiration abortion at 11 weeks is performed with the patient being under general anesthesia, so I call bullshit.

 

[Naes]

Nah I did. Just sounded like a vacuum cleaner. No rip and tear, sadly. Not even a plop.

Conservatives are going to hold true to this. Too bad they didn't include a photo - more baby gore pics are needed. In any case, say it lived. mom carried it to term. You think these talking heads will step up to help? Nah. Adoption rate stats are pretty black pilling - pardon the pun.

I miscarried twins, I've also given birth to 3 outstanding human beings, I do not care to hear the vacum, nor hear a plop.

I am a Conservative, and have taken in many kids, raised them, and my door is still open, so there's that.

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Here's the upside. Here are adoption rates by race. So no, it won't traumatize them as the ones you wish to save the most simply don't get adopted. Ironic don't you think?

I don't understand. Which do I most want to save? What specifically are you referring to?

Quick question. Do you think a woman like this should be punished?

To be clear i didn't read all that emotionally incontinent drivel, i just skimmed it. Assuming this isn't a conveniently timed, artificial and homosexual propaganda piece (i could almost hear the schindler's list theme playing while i read the headline and skimmed the maudlin masturbatory tone in the main text), yes I do. You carry the baby to term and give it a proper and dignified burial like any other human being. You experience the stillbirth like all other women have throughout history. You live through the pain and anguish and grow as a person with your husband's love and support. You do not scrape it out of you like a portion of exploded cannelloni out of the microwave.

They're trying to remove any element of humanity out of our biology and I refuse to play along.

It only disturbed pro-lifers who most likely think a zygote has a soul. It's circulating on radio waves around swampy bumfuck towns of bible belt so pro life crowd can clutch their pearls in disgust of baby murdering sluts.

I mean it's a baby being murdered there in that operation room!! There should be loud cries of traumatized mother accompanied by the sound of a chainsaw as the evil doctor cuts the baby to pieces and the blood is splattering all over the walls!

Instead, it's a normal procedure, quick, painless with a doctor reassuring patient everything went ok.

What would be the purpose of recording something like that, if not for the shock value, and do you think they just let people in the operating rooms so they can record the audio?



Also a vacuum aspiration abortion at 11 weeks is performed with the patient being under general anesthesia, so I call bullshit.

We get it, you're a faggot materialist.

 

[Chandelier]

I miscarried twins, I've also given birth to 3 outstanding human beings, I do not care to hear the vacum, nor hear a plop.

I am a Conservative, and have taken in many kids, raised them, and my door is still open, so there's that.

Congrats on staying true to your principles. It still sounded like a vacuum though, if anyone asks.

I don't understand. Which do I most want to save? What specifically are you referring to?

Well black babies are aborted the most, yeah?

To be clear i didn't read all that emotionally incontinent drivel, i just skimmed it. Assuming this isn't a conveniently timed, artificial and homosexual propaganda piece (i could almost hear the schindler's list theme playing while i read the headline and skimmed the maudlin masturbatory tone in the main text), yes I do. You carry the baby to term and give it a proper and dignified burial like any other human being. You experience the stillbirth like all other women have throughout history. You live through the pain and anguish and grow as a person with your husband's love and support. You do not scrape it out of you like a portion of exploded cannelloni out of the microwave.

They're trying to remove any element of humanity out of our biology and I refuse to play along.

Ah, so there it is. Even if it is a doomed pregnancy or killing the woman, it must be brought to term. Forget the trauma of giving birth to something dead and jeopardizing the ability to have any more, that's the end game. That's not humanity, either. That's demanding a woman look upon her dead child in the name of "life."

Women in the past either went sterile due to stillbirth or simply died. Suppose that's the more honourable route, eh?

You didn't read it, though. That was a wanted child born with anencephaly. There were no medical exceptions. She was one of yours: a Christian pro lifer. She just didn't think it would happen to her. I read it, same as I listened to the audio. Glad to see even a pro lifer has to be told to carry a dead baby. It's rather comical.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Ah, so there it is. Even if it is a doomed pregnancy or killing the woman

Your bullshit sleights of hand have gotten out of hand.