After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen human embryos should be treated with care, corporate media spent months lambasting in vitro fertilization critics and advocating for killing the embryos at adults' leisure.
Outlets' tunes changed this week when stories began to circulate about Israel allegedly destroying the "Majority of Gaza's frozen embryos." Reuters published an article, video segment, and podcast last week lamenting a December airstrike it says destroyed an estimated 4,000 frozen embryos in Gaza City's Al Basma IVF facility, as well as stored sperm and eggs.
"The embryos were the last hope for hundreds of Palestinian couples facing infertility," the caption on the video post states.
The publication attributed the tragedy to Israel, which it claimed launched a shell in December that compromised the temperature requirements of five of the facility's cryopreservation tanks, destroying thousands of frozen embryos, sperm, and eggs.
The Guardian took it further in its "The Week in Patriarchy." Columnist Arwa Mahdawi not only blamed Israel for the bomb "Possibly provided by the US," but snarkily suggested the "Genocidal" country's intelligence would claim that "At least 25% of those embryos were going to grow up to be terrorists." She claimed pro-lifers are "Weirdly silent" about this loss of life, and that Western leaders didn't amplify the embryo destruction story because they "Simply do not think of Palestinians as human." More shocking than corporate media's ongoing amplification of Hamas propaganda in its coverage of the Middle East war is their sudden concern about the sanctity of preborn human life.
Until now, corporate media have ferociously defended the destruction of millions of embryos, some of which were likely viable.
Corporate media aren't concerned with protecting human embryos.
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