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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[Zero Day Defense]

It happens all the time in nature. Adult animals

Good thing we're human beings and not dumb, stinky animals.

The argument made is that black children are aborted the most. Statistically, they are, and statistically, they are adopted less. So there is little care for them even after they are born, which is ironic from the side claiming to want to save them.

This is exactly the same kind of dishonesty you were already called out for, by the way.

You've conflated "black children are adopted less" with "pro-life proponents care less about black children" even though you can only demonstrate the former. Logically, this argument makes no sense. It's as if you want to argue that the only way to escape (nebulous) accusations of latent racism is for adoptive parents to exercise affirmative action... as if somehow, the categories are racial as opposed to "children in need of homes".

Men are the ones who impregnate women. If they conceive a child out of wedlock, as it is in the Bible, they should be punished - and, in some texts--

1. No text talks about what you're talking about.
2. What the hell do you think child support is? There are states where you can still land in debtor's prison for missed child support payments and nothing else. Nobody-- and I mean nobody-- reveres or even tolerates deadbeat dads inasmuch as they're known as deadbeat dads. Just how daft can you get?

Forget men, it's like your understanding of society is full of holes.

You seem to be hating on TERFS a lot, are you sure you're in the right place?

TERFs are objectively less than useless. They both set the foundation for the transgender zeitgeist AND vainly fight against it.

Actually, I take that back. They don't fight against it. They use their opposition to it to justify their vainest and vilest impulses, and it is in fact in their interest that their encroachment continues. It's why they haven't accomplished a damn thing since "trans exclusionary radical feminism" became a thing.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Anyway, can we get down to the real question here?
Can I get Alcest's "Les Voyages de l'âme" played on the sound system while I have my abortion?

 

[独人13]

In response, Fox News replaces ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ opening muzak with AR-15 firing sound.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Genocide is bad, because murder is evil, and prohibited by God.

Genocide being bad is relative to who's the target of the genocide. I think God will give us a pass in this situation.

 

[Blake Chortles]

Why the fuck is “almost like real childbirth” framed as a fucking positive in this situation.

Thats how you know its demonic. To mock God’s creation.

 

[Jarolleon]

If I didn't know any better I'd think NPR was trying to influence the election, but I have no doubt it horribly backfired. Idiots.

I'm sure they just wanted the public to be informed on the issue they were voting on

 

[GoysGoneWild]

Honestly I have no idea where a life begins, so I really don't have an objective opinion on abortion either way. I find it disgusting in general but is it murder? If so, at what point? Can't really tell, so I just stay out of it.

That said, the modern feminist/pro-abortion movement is a political lolcow that I enjoy seeing getting fucking wrecked, simply because they love to blame and shit on men for this crap. In my experience from dating around, the charged up people on both sides of this are women. Dudes to a large extent, just don't care that much. I have dated the stereotypical homeschool church girl (would not necessarily recommend) and seen the anti-abortion movement up close. Its religious women that are driving that bus, their husbands and sons are just along for the ride. So for the last 10 years at least, with the pro-abortion cunts screaming about how men want to control their bodies and all that shit - the anti's just buckled down and got shit done.

So yeah. No objective opinion really, but watching from the sidelines I definitely enjoy seeing one side get their shit pushed in.

 

[WE'RE ALL GONNA]

Abortion is real easy to advocate for as long as you don't know too much about it.

I'm reminded of a conversation I had in high school, my pro-abortion friends were talking about how unavailable abortion was in parts of the country. Out of genuine curiosity, I asked them how the procedure was carried out. They weren't too sure. In the conversation I mentioned how it may involve vacuuming parts of the baby, ripping it from limb to limb. I asked if this was really the case and they didn't answer.

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Only a mentally ill psychopath, like level of Dr Mengele, would want to see a woman go through stillbirth if it can be avoided. If you truly refuse to play along in the "removal of humanity in peoples biology" then next time you find yourself in a hospital needing a surgery or a tooth extraction, you demand they do it without anesthesia or better do nothing at all, after all people throughout history experienced that.

eXtreme low-iq non-argument.

wonder if you spend equal amount of time shaming deadbeat baby daddies who were more than happy to get their dick wet without a condom but are nowhere to be found once the woman gets pregnant.

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

LOL, nice fantasy. You know, many women just don't want to be pregnant/have children. For most women it's not an emotional period, it wasn't for me, it wasn't for all my friends that had it. When I got pregnant and had an abortion years ago the only thing I felt afterwards was a relief and happiness I could just terminate unwanted pregnancy in a medical facility.

The only women who find the procedure emotional and find it hard to cope afterwards are the ones who grew up surrounded by faggots like you, who tell them it's "shameful", it's a baby murder etc.

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

Why the fuck is “almost like real childbirth” framed as a fucking positive in this situation.

Thats how you know its demonic. To mock God’s creation.

That's all those faggots do. Invert and mock.

Abortion is a mockery. The person who would love and care for the child the most is the one murdering it. Human sacrifice ritual dumb cunts can't wait to perform.

Sodomy is a mockery. The life-giving essence instead of being deposited into a fertile womb that will create life is dumped into a sewer pipe. And they now force society to "celebrate" it in further mockery of marriage.

When you start looking into modern society you begin to notice this is very prevalent.

This is exactly the same kind of dishonesty you were already called out for, by the way.

I 41%'d a couple of my responses to her for exactly this reason. Total waste of time and didn't want to shit up the thread by responding to all the retarded tangents and displaced goalposts and having others respond to the responses.

She thinks she's being slick but there are far better pilpul practitioners out there, so it isn't even entertaining.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Honestly I have no idea where a life begins, so I really don't have an objective opinion on abortion either way. I find it disgusting in general but is it murder? If so, at what point? Can't really tell, so I just stay out of it.

That said, the modern feminist/pro-abortion movement is a political lolcow that I enjoy seeing getting fucking wrecked, simply because they love to blame and shit on men for this crap. In my experience from dating around, the charged up people on both sides of this are women. Dudes to a large extent, just don't care that much. I have dated the stereotypical homeschool church girl (would not necessarily recommend) and seen the anti-abortion movement up close. Its religious women that are driving that bus, their husbands and sons are just along for the ride. So for the last 10 years at least, with the pro-abortion cunts screaming about how men want to control their bodies and all that shit - the anti's just buckled down and got shit done.

So yeah. No objective opinion really, but watching from the sidelines I definitely enjoy seeing one side get their shit pushed in.

You're mostly right.

It's not that the men are along for the ride, it's that the women are the ones almost certainly doing most of the activism and the charities/lighter lifting (fun fact: the Students for Life org at my alma mater had at least 10 members, and I was one of the two guys). On both sides of the struggle, the women normally aren't the ones at the levers of power (where law is drafted) and they're not the ones putting down the big bucks-- that would be the men.

Meaning, there's two "funny" matters in all of this: first, this is one of many cases of "women doing it to themselves/each other despite blaming men". Second, both sides insist on men doing the heavy lifting for the advancement of their cause, no matter how much the pro-choice proponents want to insist that this is a woman's issue.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I can't get over the fact that somebody, somewhere, in the halls of NPR thought that of all things they could do, THIS is how they were going to get their message across. That'll educate those ovary and real vagina possessing persons. What the actual fuck has this political alignment come to, they're so divorced from reality.

I also want to take note that while I don't lean one way or another on abortion and give about as much weight to it as the abortion ED article, what's up with all of these pro abortion protests being filled with women who either look like they hate guys AND/OR you wouldn't want to have sex with them at all and the world doesn't produce enough alcohol to change your mind. I guess I know where the non-Impreza Subaru meets are now though.

Seriously I am massively less fucks giving about abortions than a lot of politically inclined people that I interact with, here and irl, but how in the literal fuck can the people involved in producing this think "yeah, this will clearly make people think this is good"

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

Its one thing to consider abortion some necessary evil, a last resort for an unwanted pregnancy... but people who literally worship abortion, and gleefully "want as many abortions as possible", are crazier than even the most delusional and unhinged fundy. Why GLORIFY abortion? At least the fundies believe they're trying to save innocent lives. I dont see how "I wanna get pregnant and KILL IT as many times as possible because FUCK YOU DAD FOR MAKING ME GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAYS!" doesn't seem as "heroic" as nutty dumb whores seem to think.

People who have their entire lives revolve around abortion, that its the most important thing to them, that they'd support Hitler if it meant supporting abortion because abortion is literally the most important thing in the world to them: like how often does abortion come up in your life? Even if you dont believe abortion is murder, any normal rational person might think maybe you shouldn't be getting an abortion regularly as your primary means of birth control.

 

[Ser Prize]

Its one thing to consider abortion some necessary evil, a last resort for an unwanted pregnancy... but people who literally worship abortion, and gleefully "want as many abortions as possible", are crazier than even the most delusional and unhinged fundy. Why GLORIFY abortion? At least the fundies believe they're trying to save innocent lives. I dont see how "I wanna get pregnant and KILL IT as many times as possible because FUCK YOU DAD FOR MAKING ME GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAYS!" doesn't seem as "heroic" as nutty dumb whores seem to think.

People who have their entire lives revolve around abortion, that its the most important thing to them, that they'd support Hitler if it meant supporting abortion because abortion is literally the most important thing in the world to them: like how often does abortion come up in your life? Even if you dont believe abortion is murder, any normal rational person might think maybe you shouldn't be getting an abortion regularly as your primary means of birth control.

I'm not even staunchly anti-abortion. Hell, in some ways I'm more radical than most since I think all children via rape should be aborted to hopefully remove the genetic predeposition towards rape from the gene pool.

But I acknowledge that it's ending a life and should be taken seriously. Seeing woman causally brag about "oh it's just a vaccuum sound lol" is simply disgusting.

 

[WENDY DENG 2020]

The other sides glee at abortion is just gross to me. Like it is a badge of honor or some shit.

This is such a wedge issue that doesn't mean shit compared to the other problems this country has.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

All that this is going to do is make the people who are on the fence about pro-life/pro-abortion lean even more heavily towards the pro-life side.

Thanks for doing this right before mid-terms, NPR!

 

[Chandelier]

Genocide is bad, because murder is evil, and prohibited by God.

Genocide has been part and parcel of humanity since we first began to walk. We are all survivors of one tribe massacring another. The Israelites engaged in it in the Bible, when the Canaanites had to be destroyed for their transgressions against God.

I can't get over the fact that somebody, somewhere, in the halls of NPR thought that of all things they could do, THIS is how they were going to get their message across. That'll educate those ovary and real vagina possessing persons. What the actual fuck has this political alignment come to, they're so divorced from reality.

I also want to take note that while I don't lean one way or another on abortion and give about as much weight to it as the abortion ED article, what's up with all of these pro abortion protests being filled with women who either look like they hate guys AND/OR you wouldn't want to have sex with them at all and the world doesn't produce enough alcohol to change your mind. I guess I know where the non-Impreza Subaru meets are now though.

Lord if I know. They're the size of Mac trucks. Same with the women's march.

But yes, this was bad timing. Not sure what NPR was thinking with this. Yes, it's audio of a procedure being done, of course they knew the pro life side was going to view it as demonic. Compared with the baby gore placards the other side carries to protests, it was rather tame. But it wasn't the same as a birth. They should have just interviewed the doctors or the nurses to get their medical perspective, and maybe the woman afterwards.

Good thing we're human beings and not dumb, stinky animals.

We are still animals. We're only a degree away from chimpanzees due to our rationality. However, throughout all of human existence, infanticide or ending pregnancies has been a fact of life. Not so long ago, during Colonial America, unwanted or deformed children were left out to die or smothered. While the Catholic Church in Europe and ministries in the Colonies did try to aid unwanted children, sometimes there were too many for them to care for.

We are still very much dumb, stinky animals.

This is exactly the same kind of dishonesty you were already called out for, by the way.

You've conflated "black children are adopted less" with "pro-life proponents care less about black children" even though you can only demonstrate the former. Logically, this argument makes no sense. It's as if you want to argue that the only way to escape (nebulous) accusations of latent racism is for adoptive parents to exercise affirmative action... as if somehow, the categories are racial as opposed to "children in need of homes".

It isn't dishonesty, it's noticing trends. Pro lifers make the argument - very vocally - that PP engages in black genocide. So, they wish to mitigate it. The outcome of said mitigation is to adopt black children at a lower rate than white children, which calls out pro life dishonesty. We can throw around accusations of racism (and honestly I don't care) all day, but in the end, the kids the pro life side claims to care about most are not adopted at an equal rate.

It would be funny, though, for said pro lifers to engage in affirmative action, even when they claim to hate it, to be morally consistent. They desire for them to be born? They can adopt them.

1. No text talks about what you're talking about.

Chapters 5:11 -31 states that during a trail of an unfaithful wife, she must be brought before a priest and told to drink water that will either make her belly swell if she is faithful, or end the pregnancy if she is not. This is during Moses' time, so you can argue that things changed during Jesus.

When Israel angered God, the people of Samaria had to bear their guilt. That included the unborn, who had to pay for the crimes of their parents. This also included the Canaanites, who engaged in child sacrifice, but those still in the womb were still killed. They were not considered innocent.

2. What the hell do you think child support is? There are states where you can still land in debtor's prison for missed child support payments and nothing else. Nobody-- and I mean nobody-- reveres or even tolerates deadbeat dads inasmuch as they're known as deadbeat dads. Just how daft can you get?

Forget men, it's like your understanding of society is full of holes.

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. 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.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

This is fucking insane. Even to pro-choice advocates, to place abortion on a pedestal is pure creepy lunacy.

Abortion is an embarassing thing to have to endure. It's scary. It's shameful. It takes weeks to adjust hormones just to begin the process. During that time is an extremely emotional period of course as it should. No woman wants to get an abortion, it is always a need. Whether inability to support themselves and a child financially, whether the pregnancy was forced upon them by rape, their body is too weak for child birth, etc. Nobody takes abortion lightly.

The people in this article should never be allowed to speak upon it. It just seems like it is a fetish to them, which is utterly Satanic. It is frightening to think such people are given a platform on media whereas websites like Kiwi Farms are silenced.


It happens all the time in nature. Adult animals literally murder their own young and the young of others for their own preservation. This is nature. It makes no difference if humans do it. Child bearers will always prioritize their own safety over a child. It's why life still exists. Get over it, snowflake.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320717303634

Bull fucking shit

90%+ of ALL abortions in the USA are convinience based birth control

In 2022 thats fucking disgusting. Get on some BC or keep your fucking legs closed.

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

It isn't dishonesty, it's noticing trends. Pro lifers make the argument - very vocally - that PP engages in black genocide. So, they wish to mitigate it. The outcome of said mitigation is to adopt black children at a lower rate than white children, which calls out pro life dishonesty. We can throw around accusations of racism (and honestly I don't care) all day, but in the end, the kids the pro life side claims to care about most are not adopted at an equal rate.

It would be funny, though, for said pro lifers to engage in affirmative action, even when they claim to hate it, to be morally consistent. They desire for them to be born? They can adopt them.

You really do argue like a retarded shill. Boiling down your nonsense, here are the takeaways:

• You imply that since fewer black children are adopted proportionally speaking, we should encourage easy access to infanticide.
  
  
• You insinuate that people who are against infanticide are hypocrites because black children are adopted at a lower rate than some other racial groups. Therefore since hypocrisy bad, their opinion on infanticide is wrong and infanticide good.
  
  
• You imply that it's better to be dead than unadopted, therefore infanticide good.
  
  
• You imply that all children deserve en equal chance at adoption.

For anyone who may still navigating their way out of the labyrinthine quagmire of talmudic nonsense this twat is attempting to construct:

- Blacks are in fact only adopted 9% of the time.


- However, blacks only make up 6% of adoptive parents, vs whites at 77%. Adoption is an overwhelmingly white activity. A large proportion of non-white ethnicity children end up being raised by whites.



- Why should parents adopt across racial lines in the first place? Why is it hypocritical to want to raise children of your own ethnic group while simultaneously wanting to prevent the deaths of children of other ethnic groups?

- What does ethnicity in the adoption world have to do with infanticide?



... I could go on dissecting your bullshit for another 2 pages but your're not worth the time. You argue like game theory isn't a thing. If one variable changes, other upstream variables are likely to change due to incentive/disincentive feedback.

The infanticide problem could easily be solved upstream. You know this but you will roll around on the floor beating your feet and fists like a toddler in a tantrum to defend the howling retardation of your morally and logically contradictory beliefs.

 

[SofondaCox]

Always a hot topic, and only here can we have this discussion so freely, so thankful to poor fuckin Josh. Quit NPR years ago, the ideological capture is overwhelming to the point of being insulting.

Couple of questions for the ProLife folks, legit curiosity:

Is anything worse than death?
If yes, what is worse than death?
What makes death a tragedy?
What aspects of death determine tragedy?

Hypothetical - if you knew beyond question the outcome for the unwanted child would be grim, would you still advocate for their life? Why?

Race realists - Do you have an uneasy peace with abortion as it relieves society of many Lunchtime Rowdies?

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I 41%'d a couple of my responses to her for exactly this reason. Total waste of time and didn't want to shit up the thread by responding to all the retarded tangents and displaced goalposts and having others respond to the responses.

She thinks she's being slick but there are far better pilpul practitioners out there, so it isn't even entertaining.

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

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



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