Abortion

Arizona's Supreme Court upheld a historic law from 1864 banning abortion except to save the mother's life.

As conservatives debate the merits and demerits of Donald Trump endorsing a federalist policy on abortion, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show temp host Michael Kosta lamented that such a debate exists because, for them, even a moderate position on abortion is still extremist.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough pulls off a quintuple-header of prejudice, slamming "old, fat, white men in Mississippi" for their alleged radicalism on abortion. Scarborough thus in one phrase engages in ageism, fat-shaming, racism, sexism, and negative Southern stereotyping.

Former president Donald Trump's recent statement that abortion issues should be left to individual states has drawn widespread criticism from pro-life groups and individuals, including Students for Life Action, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and his former Vice President, Mike Pence. Trump's comments, which did not dictate a specific cut-off for allowing abortions and included support for…

On Tuesday, PBS NewsHour interviewed a pro-life activist. But that’s not the term anchor Geoff Bennett wanted to use. He said "anti-abortion" over and over. He also favorably quoted Donald Trump saying a six-week abortion ban as "a terrible thing and a terrible mistake." 

Nebraska State Senator Mike McDonnell has changed his political affiliation from Democrat to Republican due to disagreements with his former party's stance on abortion. This self-professed man of Catholic faith felt unable to reconcile his personal beliefs with the policies favored by Democrats. Despite being a Democrat for 40 years, he felt his pro-life beliefs were not respected but punished…

If you are a Democrat who wants a softball interview and the ability to spread fake news unchallenged, you go on a late night comedy program like Rep. Colin Allred going on Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show to hype his campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz. Throughout the interview, host Desi Lydic would lob him easy questions about abortion and leave unchallenged his claims that…

Florida’s Supreme Court rulings enabling both the heartbeat bill and the ballot question which would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution has triggered a wave of media wishcasting, centered around the hope that abortion will lift President Joe Biden to victory in November, retaking the state for the Democrats. ABC News, as usual, has distinguished itself among the…

MSNBC’s Joy Reid claims to have no problems with hearing Republican points of view, but when it came to discussing abortion on Wednesday’s edition of The ReidOut, she instead welcomed two Democrats, strategist Juanita Tolliver and former Sen. Doug Jones, to wonder why white women vote for Republicans because pro-lifers are a bunch of white supremacists who view them as vehicles to…

On Wednesday’s installment of MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports, the eponymous host and contributor Paola Ramos focused on the rapes and sexual assaults committed by drug cartels against women who seek to make their way to the U.S. border. Instead of using this as an opportunity to warn against making a dangerous journey that will only end with a…

The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show came together on Tuesday to put together a satirical movie trailer about a male GOP politician who becomes a woman after a “freak jacking off accident” and has an epiphany that the party needs to support abortion, all while portraying the party as a bunch of out-of-touch, sex-crazed misogynists.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard the FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case regarding the safety of abortion pills. Supporters on both sides rallied outside the court. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine argued that the FDA had removed crucial safeguards for using and reporting on the side effects, resulting in harm to women. Protestors urged the FDA to ensure drugs help and don't harm…

As we mentioned previously, the media are desperately seeding narrative ahead of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on whether the FDA violated the law when it issued emergency approval for Mifepristone, framing the issue instead as a matter of “access”. But NBC has taken that advocacy one step further. 

Minnesota Lieutenant Governor, Peggy Flanagan, has based her selections for the NCAA basketball championships, also known as March Madness, on the abortion laws of the states where the college teams are based. For the women’s teams, she predicted Stanford vs. Southern California as the final pairing, with Southern California as her winning pick, while for the men’s teams she chose UConn over…