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]

eXtreme low-iq non-argument.



Yes. One of the most shameful acts a man can commit.


Faggot materialist AND a child-killer. I should have guessed. Opinion discarded.

Nobody cares you stupid noob. You claim to have 17 week year old daughter and yet you post on the farms 24/7? You even fed her as you were replying to this thread? And you also miscarried twins but then gave birth to three more children?




You're a lonely incel faggot with cheeto powder crusted chin and breeding fantasies, aren't you?

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Nobody cares you stupid noob. You claim to have 17 week year old daughter and yet you post on the farms 24/7? You even fed her as you were replying to this thread? And you also miscarried twins but then gave birth to three more children?




You're a lonely incel faggot with cheeto powder crusted chin and breeding fantasies, aren't you?

look at this niglet not even quoting the right user lmao

seethe more cunt

 

[RussianBlonde]

The moniker "Russian Blonde" and trad porn user pics:

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...guarantees you're talking to something that looks more like this:

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That's what the life-hating, love-hating, humanity-hating radical feminist ideology makes them all into eventually.

I have no idea what trad porn is but then again I dont spend every waking minute on some weird fetish sites jerking off. As a matter of fact the picture in my profile is by Uldus Bakhthiozina, a fairly well known female Russian photographer and artist.

But I don't blame you Larry, when you're only used to seeing female form in porn movies and never in real life you automatically start to assume that every picture of a woman must come from a porn movie.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I have no idea what trad porn is but then again I dont spend every waking minute on some weird fetish sites jerking off. As a matter of fact the picture in my profile is by Uldus Bakhthiozina, a fairly well known female Russian photographer and artist.

But I don't blame you Larry, when you're only used to seeing female form in porn movies and never in real life you automatically start to assume that every picture of a woman must come from a porn movie.

The apple-cheeked blonde girl with a headscarf- tradwife larper shit.

You're some obese zitty Gypsy who stinks of cat litter pans. But you larp online as a "Russian blonde."

 

[RussianBlonde]

look at this niglet not even quoting the right user lmao

seethe more cunt

Ah my bad, posters here either have multiple infants or post 24/7 cos they are lonely and have nobody, I know which category you fall into.

The apple-cheeked blonde girl with a headscarf- tradwife larper shit.

You're some obese zitty Gypsy who stinks of cat litter pans. But you larp online as a "Russian blonde."

Larry, I am ethnically Russian and nationally Polish. I could look like Jabba the Hutt and my husband would still love me. I love laying in bed next to him every night and sucking his big Slavic cock. Enjoy your porn, bubba

 

[Zero Day Defense]

We're only a degree away from chimpanzees due to our rationality.

Maybe you're only a degree away from chimpanzees. The point is, I'm not a chimpanzee-- I'm a human being. I don't need to hold myself to the standards of beings that throw their feces at each other, or beings that literally devour their young unthinkingly. If you want to do that for yourself, I couldn't care less.

It isn't dishonesty--

Your rhetoric is dishonest. You conflate different groups (adoptive parents and pro-life proponents) after only demonstrating a case for the former. You act as though black children being adopted less (though they're still being adopted) means anything in particular just because black children get aborted and end up in orphanages disproportionately.

Maybe you're not being dishonest as much as you are being daft because you're invested in the idea that managing to demonstrate that pro-life proponents have a racial preference in adopting kids disproves anything about the pro-life case at all-- a plainly fallacious thought.

Chapters 5:11 -31 states that--

Did you deliberately choose a translation that was seemingly copacetic with your argument? Why is it that the outcome binary in this ritual is "be able to have children" or "womb miscarry and your abdomen swell"?

That would be because the situation doesn't entail a pregnant woman in the first place. The exposition doesn't mention pregnancy at all, and it stipulates a circumstance wherein there's no apparent evidence that she committed adultery (so, definitely no baby bump). The actual point of the procedure involves punishing an adulterous woman with barrenness as opposed to the bitter water being a conditional abortifacent. We know that the Torah acknowledge the concept of miscarriage-- there's a law for punishing someone who possibly caused a miscarriage versus punishing someone who provably caused a miscarriage, along with specific language for loss of child. Language that isn't used in the excerpt you brought up.

Still on the fence about whether you're being deliberately dishonest or plainly daft.

It is interesting, though, that men are more concerned about being viewed as deadbeat dads and missing child support payments - that caused much consternation when it was passed - than they are about the women they impregnate.

...why, yes.

The ignoble DEADBEATS that ABANDON THEIR CHILDREN are more concerned about being viewed as deadbeats and having to pay child support, than they are about the children they abandoned.

If we are to be fair, and we are to view the women as murderers, then the men who impregnate them must be held with equal regard as accessories to that murder, as they created a child out of wedlock or had a role to play in an unplanned pregnancy.

This is the stupidest argument you've made yet. It's a quintessential demonstration of the failure of the "modern woman" to understand or accept personal responsibility. It reinforces the fact that you're a rank-and-file feminist (of some sort) woefully out of touch with her interlocutors.

Larry, I am ethnically Russian and nationally Polish. I could look like Jabba the Hutt and my husband would still love me. I love laying in bed next to him every night and sucking his big Slavic cock. Enjoy your porn, bubba

Is engaging in TMI the female KF poster's standard startle reaction, or something?

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Larry, I am ethnically Russian and nationally Polish. I could look like Jabba the Hutt and my husband would still love me. I love laying in bed next to him every night and sucking his big Slavic cock. Enjoy your porn, bubba

You murdered your own child by your own admission. Your opinion is invalid.

 

[RussianBlonde]

You murdered your own child by your own admission. Your opinion is invalid.

Maybe if US had better access to abortion you wouldn't have dodged the coat hanger either. Yet here you are.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

You murdered your own child by your own admission. Your opinion is invalid.

If she's telling the truth about her identity, it's kind of a national pastime for Slav whores so no surprises there.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

I am pro abortion for Polish people, I don't give a shit about the sped slapfight ITT otherwise

But I just can't really wrap my head around what, other than some literal demon who makes you retarded, possessed the journoswine at NPR to air this. Not just the dumb bitch who made that segment, someone had to okay that too and these fucking lunatics must have all agreed that this is a good thing to do to advance their agenda and make prolifers (who, I imagine, don't listen to the fucking NPR anyway, based on what I've heard about that station) see the light and start supporting postnatal abortion like some of the braver shitlibs have been demanding. That's such a breathtakingly stupid train of thought, I really have no words. "It's almost like a childbirth!" and the fucking vacuum turns on while elevator music plays, LMFAO.

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Maybe if US had better access to abortion you wouldn't have dodged the coat hanger either. Yet here you are.

Unlike your child, my married parents wanted me and so I didn't end up getting cut into little chunks and sold for parts.


Repent, child-killer. You still have time to repent.

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

On the other hand, the abortion industry is funded and facilitated by men Jews (who they say have no say in the matter of abortion, claim that if women cannot get abortions it violates their religion but we'll put that aside).

Fixed that for you.

 

[Chandelier]

Maybe you're only a degree away from chimpanzees. The point is, I'm not a chimpanzee-- I'm a human being. I don't need to hold myself to the standards of beings that throw their feces at each other, or beings that literally devour their young unthinkingly. If you want to do that for yourself, I couldn't care less.

You stated that 'thank God we are not stinky animals'. We are only separate from them because of the fact we can comprehend our own existence. Other than that, there are not many differences.

We once thought murder was limited only to humans - turns out, the Gombe Chimpanzee wars taught us otherwise.

Abortion is common even in non human animals. Someone else posted an interesting article of sharks doing it under capture. Infanticide was common in the past. The Founders knew full well what abortion was, and if confronted with a baby with harlequin ichthyosis, they'd think it was a demon and kill it. As they did with other deformed children. But, I digress.

Your rhetoric is dishonest. You conflate different groups (adoptive parents and pro-life proponents) after only demonstrating a case for the former. You act as though black children being adopted less (though they're still being adopted) means anything in particular just because black children get aborted and end up in orphanages disproportionately.

Technically, they are adopted less. The IFS has data from 2011 (it's outdated, but let's use that as a starting point), showing that black children are 9% of all adopted children. White couples are 77% of all those who adopt - black people only come in at 6%. Going by this, per their population, they:
- Abort more
- Adopt less
- Their children are adopted less

The underlying question is: why? The argument here is that pro lifers state they are more likely to be adoptive parents, yet they do not seem to be pulling their weight here. This gives credence to the idea of the opposing side saying they want the children to be born, and care little of what happens afterwards. If we really do want to 'get rid of the niggers', as Sanger said, why don't the good, moral side adopt them?

Maybe you're not being dishonest as much as you are being daft because you're invested in the idea that managing to demonstrate that pro-life proponents have a racial preference in adopting kids disproves anything about the pro-life case at all-- a plainly fallacious thought.

Not at all - what it means is that the side that advocates that mothers give up their child for adoption after telling them to continue the pregnancy (as it is murder otherwise) do not seem keen on adopting the ones aborted the most. That's definitively a trend and one most won't admit to. It shows that white adoptive parents choose children of the same race, while others (think rich and famous celebrities ) will often adopt mixed race or other race children. It's rather telling. (innate broken branch ancestor cry? who knows)

Did you deliberately choose a translation that was seemingly copacetic with your argument? Why is it that the outcome binary in this ritual is "be able to have children" or "womb miscarry and your abdomen swell"?

That would be because the situation doesn't entail a pregnant woman in the first place. The exposition doesn't mention pregnancy at all, and it stipulates a circumstance wherein there's no apparent evidence that she committed adultery (so, definitely no baby bump). The actual point of the procedure involves punishing an adulterous woman with barrenness as opposed to the bitter water being a conditional abortifacent. We know that the Torah acknowledge the concept of miscarriage-- there's a law for punishing someone who possibly caused a miscarriage versus punishing someone who provably caused a miscarriage, along with specific language for loss of child. Language that isn't used in the excerpt you brought up.

Still on the fence about whether you're being deliberately dishonest or plainly daft.

The one on Samaria was pretty clear, as is the one on the Canaanites. It didn't matter if the children were in the womb, they had to be killed for the sins of their parents. So much for innocence.

...why, yes.

The ignoble DEADBEATS that ABANDON THEIR CHILDREN are more concerned about being viewed as deadbeats and having to pay child support, than they are about the children they abandoned.

Well yes, they had a hand in creating those children, they should pay for it. After all, the baby has been born, as is demanded. If women are murderers, then those men are defilers.

If the goal is to increase the birthrate and restore traditional values, Ceausescu already tried that when he banned abortion in Romania in the 1960s. This was a Communist regime, btw. He achieved success in the first few years with the birthrates going up, before they crashed. Romanian orphanages became infamous for having so many kids where they had to bury many in the backyard. Corporal punishments were common. 500,000 children, now adults, are permanently scarred from this practice (this is actually what the Handmaid's Tale was based on). On the other side, Catholic Ireland had similar policies, and had the Magdalene Laundries. Also buried kids in the backyard.

There are ways to reduce abortion. Greater maternity care and less shame for mothers is one. Even those who may keep their kids are called sluts and whores. Can't win for losing.

This is the stupidest argument you've made yet. It's a quintessential demonstration of the failure of the "modern woman" to understand or accept personal responsibility. It reinforces the fact that you're a rank-and-file feminist (of some sort) woefully out of touch with her interlocutors.

It isn't. It shows that you do indeed pin the blame solely on women and not the men who impregnate them. Women do not get pregnant on their own. So while accusations of 'cumslut' and other terms can be loosed freely, in the end, some dude had to stick his dick in her. There needs to be more discussions of men in this debate, and the role they play in pregnancy. If the reaction to deadbeat dads is so strong, it should equally be applied to those men who do not use protection with their female partners. I've asked you before whether you pose any solutions to lower abortion - there were none offered.

For the record, I am not even a feminist. But it wouldn't matter, because we're all "out of touch" in some ways, haha.

There isn't much more to offer, so I'll leave it at that.

 

[Dude Snakes]

By the sound of the voice this was a black woman murdering her unborn, I thought Black Lives Matter?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Bitch I have seen snuff films from Chechnya and death vids from china you think a vacuum and a couple of cries are gonna disturb me? Fuck off I hope the fetus died slow.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

We are only separate from them because of the fact we can comprehend our own existence.

That's pretty categorical, but not as categorical as the fact that we're not those animals.

Technically, they are adopted--

That's not "technically"-- that's all the evidence you have, and it has nothing to do with the question of the morality of abortion, much less the options and preferences of adoptive parents.

Yours is a modified argument of "but what about after they're born", but even worse. As with that argument, whatever happens with the children afterwards has nothing to do with whether murdering them is wrong, and whether pro-life proponents have racial preferences has even less to do with the matter. It doesn't absolve the one that performs or commissions their murder. Additionally-- even hypothetically, when you put yourself in the position of performing or abetting some kind of evil (from whatever perspective), you don't get to call out those who ideologically oppose you for not stopping you. It's reflective of, again, your lack of understanding of the concept of accountability.

The one on Samaria was pretty clear, as is the one on the Canaanites.

Still not sanctioned abortion. That's the both of them being left to the mercy of their enemies, who slaughter them. The children also don't "pay for the crimes" of their parents-- they suffer the consequences of their sinfulness as blameless victims. Being left to the mercy of their enemies on account of abandoning the God that protects them for idols is a regular occurrence in the history detailed in the Old Testament, as well as inherent to the Mosaic covenant.

Well yes, they had a hand in creating those children, they should pay for it. After all, the baby has been born, as is demanded. If women are murderers, then those men are defilers.

But they're not murderers because the woman decided on her own to abort the child, just because they were responsible for siring the child. That's nonsense, as is your attempt to make holding women accountable for their individual actions a matter of sexism. We already hold men accountable. You've already described how we hold men accountable. Just because they aren't held accountable for commissioning the murder of the child does not mean that they're not being held accountable-- the entire circumstance is lopsided in the first place (a man cannot reliably stop a woman from procuring an abortion, or cause her to get one), so why would their responsibilities and what they're capable of being accountable for not also be asymmetrical?

You're attempting to diffuse blame in talking about how men (who are already held accountable) ought to be held accountable, and "talked about more", and how they need to wear protection (but not that women shouldn't have sex with men who won't wear protection), and whatever other bullshit in a conversation entirely centered around the matter of the morality of killing children in the womb.

You claim you're not a feminist but you employ their rhetoric and redistribute blame the exact same way they're wont to. Well enough, whether or not you are is immaterial in comparison to what it is you're doing.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

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.

I hope Putin drops a Kaliber on your house or more likely shitty blockhouse apartment

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Terfs pulling the "wassup my fellow racists, let's find some common ground and kill some unborn niggers, eh wot?" will never stop sending my sides into orbit.

Just because you're a POS who doesn't see any intrinsic value in human life doesn't mean the rest of us edgelords are too, gals.

Spot on.

As much as I hate nigger teens and adults I cannot seem to find the passion to kill innocent unborn black babies.

I don't know if this makes me a shitty racist or just not a Molech worshipping weirdo. Just because abortion kills blacks the most doesn't mean it's good.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Spot on.

As much as I hate nigger teens and adults I cannot seem to find the passion to kill innocent unborn black babies.

I don't know if this makes me a shitty racist or just not a Molech worshipping weirdo. Just because abortion kills blacks the most doesn't mean it's good.

It feels like a corollary on the fact that lefties almost as a rule fundamentally do not understand the other side's motivations.

 

[robobobo]

That's primarily because, "I think that's a baby, we shouldn't kill it", is an incredibly difficult argument to go against. So they try to reframe it instead, to "you want to murder/enslave women", so they can have a moral high ground rather than try to argue for baby-killing.

Attempting to argue along the lines of, "It's not a baby until x time" is the closest thing to a legitimate counter-argument, but that gets into the fact that nobody knows the first thing about where to really place the dividing line between a random clump of cells and a person, and that's ignoring the fact that the random clump of cells will probably, if left unmolested, be a baby. To my mind, "It's not a baby yet" is akin to a time-traveler saying it's not murder to go back in time and kick someone's grandpa in the balls so they aren't ever born. You're taking an action that is guaranteeing that a future person now cannot exist.

That said, I'm not even particularly anti-abortion. I think it's an unfortunate and distasteful act, but will acknowledge that there are circumstances where it should be on the table. If the baby's going to be fucked up, if it's a risky pregnancy for the mother, that sort of scenario. I wouldn't suggest that a woman should endanger herself to carry a pregnancy, nor that a baby that's likely to not survive or is otherwise completely crippled should be forced to be carried to term.