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Coverage of restrictive abortion legislation demonstrates that "balanced" reporting is not necessarily synonymous with accurate reporting. Even while seeming to present impartial facts, media often simultaneously participate in the subtle rhetorical shift toward elevating the fetus to a legal standing separate and equal to a woman's. The "rights of the unborn" is the most recent gambit for the movement to curb reproductive choice--illustrated by Arkansas' Fetal Protection Act, which punishes attackers separately for crimes against a fetus; Missouri's extremist Infant Protection Act (currently under a judicial restraining order), which threatens women and doctors with sentences of up to life in [...]