It’s not been a good week for the legacy news media, America — and it’s only Tuesday.
First, CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell lied her head off over Donald Trump’s correct charge that the FBI seized his passports during their raid on Mar-a-Lago. Then, Tuesday morning.CBS Mornings continued to fearmonger itself silly over the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, This claim was made by the state that makes it more difficult for ectopic pregnancies to be treated. non-pregnancy-related diseases.
The “culprits” are right-to-life Americans who stand against on-demand abortion; in many cases until birth.
According to NewsBusters CBS Mornings host Nate Burleson kicked off the festivities by “reporting” that “the fight over limits on abortion is spreading to some unexpected places including drug stores,” continuing:
After the Supreme Court granted states permission to outlaw or restrict abortions, at least one of the medications that are commonly prescribed to treat arthritis and lupus as well as cancer, is now becoming more difficult to obtain. [CBS News correspondent]Janet Shamlian tells the story of patients caught between the lines and fearful about the potential impact on their health.
Shamlian went right for your fearmongering heartstrings and exposed the misery of Noraa, 10-years-old [sic] Wise, who “has been living with a rare autoimmune disease that causes inflation in her bones.” After several attempts to treat the serious disease, Shamlian said, “life changed, her mom says, after Noraa’s doctor prescribed methotrexate.”
WebMD describes methotrexate as:
[U]sed to treat certain types of cancer (such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) or to control severe psoriasis or rheumatoid arthritis that has not responded to other treatments. You may use it to treat juvenile rheumatoid. … It works by slowing or stopping the growth of cancer cells and suppressing the immune system. Methotrexate is an aggressive treatment that can be used to treat rheumatoidarthritis early. It helps reduce joint pain and preserve joint function.
Shamlian described it as a drugThis is how it works:
It’s commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and some cancers but can also be used to terminate non-viable ectopic pregnancies where a fertilized egg grows outside the womb. The Supreme Court’s decision has been overturned Roe V. Wade Some women complain that their pharmacists are having trouble getting them the medicine.
Can you see the direction this is going?
Shamlian presented then Annie England Noblin’s case. Annie, an elderly user of methotrexate due to rheumatoid, told Shamlian that her doctor recently stopped her from getting her medication. Noblin explained in this video clip:
They needed to make sure my rheumatologist actually prescribed me methotrexate for my RA and not so that I could, you know, abort a fetus.
Bingo. This is exactly what I thought before reading the quote. I’m not a doctor or a pharmacist, but it doesn’t take a Mensa member to quickly figure out who prescribed the medication and for what reason — in In any eventMethotrexate.
After making it a point to say Noblin “lives in Missouri, a state banning almost all abortions,” Shamlian continued to her exploitation, which was readily resolved when Noblin’s rheumatologist verified her prescription, asking, “When you heard that [the refill was on hold], what did you think?”
Noblin was ready with the “correct” answer:
The anger was instantaneous. I was embarrassed because I was in a pharmacy line and I—I— said, ‘Okay, do you also need to know the first date of my last period as well?’
Nonsense. Furthermore, it is not necessary for everyone to obtain a verified prescription.
Shamlian then trotted out an OB/GYN, “practicing in Texas, another state where most abortions are illegal.”
“This is a common thing we deal with,” said Dr. John Thoppil, who Shamlian said has “prescribed methotrexate about ten times over the last year to end non-viable pregnancies and is concerned about potential delays in patients getting it.”
Ah, that’s it! We just moved from a rare autoimmune disease and rheumatoid arthritis to aborting “non-viable” pregnancies.
“Are there other medications that can do what this drug does?” Shamlian asked, obviously aware of the answer she — and the CBS New audience — were about to hear. Here’s Thoppil:
Unfortunately for an ectopic pregnancy, no. So, you know, if this is delayed, there is a timeline that this works, the pregnancy gets too far along, the only thing left is surgery.
Finally, Shamlian pathetically poured it on, returning her exploitation of the 10-year-old girl: “For Noraa Wise, the medication is a game changer she wants to keep taking.”
Said young Noraa: “I know the medicine works. I don’t have any more pain. It’s just, I hope that I’ll have my medicine.”
Translation: Noraa has stopped taking painkillers and continues to take the drug. This is why she doesn’t have a problem with the drug.
Let’s get to the bottom of it:
Again, I’m neither a doctor nor a pharmacist, but I have taken several prescriptions through the years, sometimes needing verification from my doc that a particular med was prescribed for a particular situation, most recently a heavy-duty opiate when I suffered vertebrae compression fractures in my lower back.
CBS News and many in the lapdog liberal media — along with the Democrat Party and other abortion activists — continue to exploit and lie about the overturn of Roe and everything they can remotely —and falsely — claim the overturn impacts.