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'Dear Penthouse Forum...'
'I know this is going to sound like a crazy fantasy but every word of this story is true...'
That is the vibe I get from the first-person narrative discussed below, to which I will not link, but will post an excerpt from Snopes.com:
Wrongful Termination
Claim: A woman named Lana obtained a late-term abortion because she learned she was carrying a male fetus.
PROBABLY FALSE
Origins: On 17 January 2015, the website Injustice Stories published an article purportedly penned by a woman named Lana who claimed to have terminated her pregnancy at the five-month mark because she learned the fetus was male.
Unnoticed at first, the claim about "Lana" and her questionable decision to obtain a late-term abortion achieved traction when sites such as Daily Caller and the Huffington Post published articles about it after taking the single-source story at face value (and apparently without any attempt at verification) in early February 2015.
<snip, including text from the dubious narrative>
Missing from the account were any identifying details about the timeframe in which the purported abortion occurred, the general locality, or any other details or information regarding the procedure. In fact, the process of terminating a pregnancy after the twenty-week mark is far more complex and risky than a first-trimester abortion, and women who have experienced it are unlikely to describe it as "without a hitch."
Inconsistencies aside, the site Injustice Stories was virtually unknown before the implausible story of Lana's abortion was published. That's probably because a domain lookup revealed the domain was registered on the same day Lana's story was posted. Furthermore, in order to read the entirety of the article, site visitors were forced to share the page on social media (which in turn boosted its visibility incrementally before it caught the eye of larger news sources). The tale's lack of plausibility, combined with the use of a brand-new site to publish it, indicated that the acount was likely a troll for pageviews, not a real-life account representing the sordid state of feminism. While many skeptical readers believed the hoax was aimed at promoting an anti-abortion agenda, it's also possible the site's purveyor fabricated the tale primarily to generate outrage-based clicks.
Claim: A woman named Lana obtained a late-term abortion because she learned she was carrying a male fetus.
PROBABLY FALSE
Origins: On 17 January 2015, the website Injustice Stories published an article purportedly penned by a woman named Lana who claimed to have terminated her pregnancy at the five-month mark because she learned the fetus was male.
Unnoticed at first, the claim about "Lana" and her questionable decision to obtain a late-term abortion achieved traction when sites such as Daily Caller and the Huffington Post published articles about it after taking the single-source story at face value (and apparently without any attempt at verification) in early February 2015.
<snip, including text from the dubious narrative>
Missing from the account were any identifying details about the timeframe in which the purported abortion occurred, the general locality, or any other details or information regarding the procedure. In fact, the process of terminating a pregnancy after the twenty-week mark is far more complex and risky than a first-trimester abortion, and women who have experienced it are unlikely to describe it as "without a hitch."
Inconsistencies aside, the site Injustice Stories was virtually unknown before the implausible story of Lana's abortion was published. That's probably because a domain lookup revealed the domain was registered on the same day Lana's story was posted. Furthermore, in order to read the entirety of the article, site visitors were forced to share the page on social media (which in turn boosted its visibility incrementally before it caught the eye of larger news sources). The tale's lack of plausibility, combined with the use of a brand-new site to publish it, indicated that the acount was likely a troll for pageviews, not a real-life account representing the sordid state of feminism. While many skeptical readers believed the hoax was aimed at promoting an anti-abortion agenda, it's also possible the site's purveyor fabricated the tale primarily to generate outrage-based clicks.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/abortedboy.asp#ssBCzv1WuDuZagtP.99
In addition to the Daily Caller and HuffPo, this has been making the rounds throughout the RW blogosphere. As I said, I won't provide a link to this site, although Snopes will lead to the site if one wants to read it. It appears to hit all the stereotypical points in an effort to inflame emotions.
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