Salon Writer Admits Embellishing Abortion Story

Jill Stanek
NewsBusters
June 1, 2011

On my blog last week I posted an excerpt from the Salon piece, “Abortion saved my life.”

The writer, a blogger named Mikki Kendall, was relaying her first person account of supposedly nearly hemorrhaging to death because a hospital doctor refused to perform the one procedure that would save her life, an abortion. Here was the quote I pulled:

I don’t know if his objections were religious or not; all I know is that when a bleeding woman was brought to him for treatment he refused to do the only thing that could stop the bleeding. Because he didn’t do abortions. Ever.

The story headline and subtitle: “Abortion saved my life: I almost died in an emergency room because the doctor on call refused to perform a necessary procedure.”

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This article was posted: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 7:29 am

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