ABC, PBS Freak Over ‘Major New Setback to Abortion Access’

Hours after Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a 15-week abortion ban, ABC’s World News Tonight & PBS NewsHour went into meltdown mode, with ABC guest anchor Linsey Davis calling the bill’s passage a “major new setback to abortion access.” 

ABC congressional correspondent Rachel Scott reported hyperbolically on Davis’s behalf, but also lamented the state of Florida. “joining a wave of states restricting access to abortion.”Scott continued on with her depressed coverage, worrying about how Florida law will affect her. “goes into effect July 1st, and the exceptions are narrow, only made if it’s ‘necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life’ or poses a ‘serious risk’.” 

She finds it just as horrible that “several states have enacted laws blocking access to abortion.”Oklahoma is included in this. “enacted a law to make performing an abortion illegal, punishable by up to ten years in prison.” 

Scott moved on to the Florida and Oklahoma law, but she was furious at Kentucky. She bemoaned her actions. “Republican lawmakers overrode the Governor’s veto on a new strict law there, forcing the only two remaining clinics in the state to stop providing the procedure while the law is challenged in court.” 

Scott repeated the arguments of abortion advocates throughout her report. Scott noted that the “consequences are dire”How the new laws will affect you “force patients to travel out of state for procedures.” Never once has she quoted from or interviewed pro-life advocates. 

There are more PBS News Hour, it was just as one-sided, with national correspondent John Yang interviewing leftist “journalist” Shefali Luthra from nonprofit news site “The 19th.” 

Federal court lawsuits seek to stop Kentucky’s abortion law being implemented while the case is being litigated.

Our @JohnYangTVSpeak with @shefalilThe 19th discusses what it means for women seeking abortion services. https://t.co/MSJmRDrhEG pic.twitter.com/27rZsiQXcR

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 14, 2022

Yang fretted about Luthra, voicing snarky concern over how Kentucky’s abortion ban came into effect following Republican legislators who dared to override Democrat governor Andy Beshear’s veto. 

Luthra was then able to help him strategize on how Kentucky’s women could get abortions. 

YANG And what’s this doing to women in Kentucky who want to terminate their pregnancies?

SHEFALI LUTHRA: There are no clinic-based options for abortions at this point in Kentucky because you’re right, there’s Planned Parenthood and there’s EMW. Hospitals perform some abortions, but it’s a really tiny fraction. Only a few out of over 3000 abortions performed each year. You have no other options if Kentucky is your home and you need an abortion. Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Tennessee might be the closest options. But these long journeys can prove costly, as an abortion will cost you extra.

While the media was always in support of radical abortionists, with Roe vs Wade set for a resounding ejection by the Supreme Court, pro-life laws being passed across the nation, the media left is now being more transparent about their lobbying.

ABC & PBS lobbying for abortion “rights” was made possible thanks to Xyzal on ABC, and taxpayers like you on PBS. 

For the appropriate transcript, click on “expand”. 

ABC’s World News Tonight
4/14/2022
Eastern, 6:43.25 

LINSEY DAVIS : A major setback for abortion access will be next night. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a ban on abortion for 15 weeks, with no exemptions for incest or rape. The latest step in an increasing number of states that have enacted strict new laws ahead of a Supreme Court case which could end abortion rights all across America is this. This is ABC’s Rachel Scott.

RACHEL SOTT: Florida is joining the growing number of states that have restricted abortion access. Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks.

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SCOTT: The law takes effect July 1. It is very narrow in scope. Only if the “serious danger” of putting the pregnant women’s lives at risk or “necessary to preserve her life”, can it be applied. Incest and rape are not allowed. Many states across the nation have passed laws that block access to abortion. Oklahoma, which just this week passed a law making abortion illegal and punishable with up to ten year imprisonment, has made the announcement. One exception is to protect the life of the mother. The new law will be in effect by the end of this summer.

TALCOTT CAMP (CHIEF LEGAL & STRATEGY OFFICER, NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION): The implications for people in Oklahoma are devastating.

SCOTT: 24 hours later, in Kentucky Republican legislators overruled the Governor’s objection to a strict new law. The law requires the remaining two clinics in Kentucky to cease offering the procedure until the law can be challenged in court. Kentucky, according to opponents, is now the only state with legal abortion access after the landmark Roe-versus Wade decision almost fifty years ago.

Pro-abortion advocates claim the law will have devastating consequences and force women to travel from their home state to get abortions. This will all be challenged in court. This very topic is before the Supreme Court in this summer. 

PBS NewsHour
4/14/2022
Eastern: 7:38 p.m. 

JOHN YANG: Kentucky’s law took effect yesterday after the state’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode Democratic Governor Andy Beshear’s veto. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU immediately requested a federal judge in order to stop the law’s implementation, claiming it is contrary to the Supreme Court restrictions on the state’s ability regarding abortion.

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YANG And what’s this doing to women in Kentucky who want to terminate their pregnancies?

SHEFALI LUTHRA: There are no clinic-based options for abortions at this point in Kentucky because you’re right, there’s Planned Parenthood and there’s EMW. Hospitals perform some abortions, but it’s a really tiny fraction. Only a few out of over 3000 abortions performed each year. You have no other options if Kentucky is your home and you need an abortion. Indiana, Ohio or Tennessee are the next closest places. However, these can be expensive and an abortion can already become a costly, unplanned expense.