Abortion Advocacy, Inc.

Recklessness in Media Coverage of Abortion Law

Ever since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion has returned to prominence in American discourse. Unfortunately, the polarizing nature of abortion means that getting accurate information can be difficult, especially when media outlets seem more interested in stoking controversy than in reporting news accurately. One could point to countless examples in the immediate wake of Dobbs, such as those that hysterically warned that the government would start demanding access to women’s period-tracking apps to determine if they’d had an illegal abortion.

This trend of exaggerating, if not outright misinforming, has continued most recently in a Texas case that has...