Jezebel: Stop interviewing anti-abortion propagandists

The other week, I proudly added my name to an open letter by Physicians for Reproductive Health to the media, urging journalists to stop giving equal airtime to anti-abortion propagandists.

Today, Jezebel covered the letter that was signed by over 600 providers, journalists, and activists. This comes during a time of an extreme increase in clinic violence and threats.

“A recent Washington Post feature about an anti-abortion activist planning to open a massive anti-abortion pregnancy “care” center in South Texas quoted one forced-birth activist as saying, “I’ve seen a lot of 13-year-olds do phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal” as mothers. “It doesn’t have to be a negative thing.” The reporters did not push back against the belief that a 13-year-old child could even consent to the sex required to get pregnant, nor did they ask follow-up questions to the activist’s subsequent statements that the 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio should not have been allowed to get an abortion. The doctor who provided necessary abortion care to that child, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, is a signatory to this letter.”

Read the article here.