Democrats’ Abortion Extremism Would Not Be Possible Without Help From Corporate Media
The abortion extremism that Democrats have made the hallmark of their campaigns in recent years did not sneak into red states and onto debate stages by accident. It is the corporate media’s years-long willingness to amplify abortion activism that gave Democrats desperate to control the narrative on unborn life the ability to make killing babies the center of their 2024 election strategy.
For years, top Democrats have rejected any limits on ending life in the womb. Those blue party members who refuse to admit to their affinity for unlimited abortion so plainly, such as Vice President Kamala Harris, make it clear where they stand when they throw their support behind bills and ballot measures that seek to codify killing unborn babies through birth.
Democrats have publicly advocated for abortion for all regardless of the circumstances in all 50 states. They’ve even pledged to stop at nothing, including the filibuster, to ensure it happens. Yet, corporate media have deliberately avoided forcing pro-abortion politicians to reconcile their radicalism with Americans’ widespread support for restricting abortion.
To put it bluntly, the propaganda press quite literally let Democrats get away with murder without saying a word.
Even the talking heads that dare to ask Democrat candidates and officials exactly what week of pregnancy abortion permissions should end do so meekly and without adequate follow-up.
The media’s role in Democrats’ abortion scheming doesn’t stop at simply giving their extremism and hypocrisy a free pass.
The outlets known for controlling the airwaves and newsstands routinely publish polls laced with twisted language and framing to pretend Americans are far more sympathetic to leftists’ positions on abortion and in vitro fertilization than they are. Media companies such as ABC, The Atlantic, Politico, BBC, Forbes, NPR, NBC, Axios, PBS, CBS, CNN, The New York Times, Reuters, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The Hill, Time Magazine, and New York Magazine use euphemistic terms to describe the people lobbying for unfettered murder of unborn babies as “pro-choice,” yet negatively frame pro-lifers as “anti-abortion.”
As the Supreme Court workshopped its 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, media mouthpieces happily leaked the opinion draft with hopes of pressuring the high bench in a different direction. When that didn’t work, outlets such as ProPublica, The New York Times, the Daily Beast, and the Washington Post worked with Democrats to attack and undermine the court’s authority by targeting its Republican-nominated justices with smears.
Only 37 percent of U.S. adults believe abortion should be allowed during the second trimester, which begins around 13 weeks gestation. Yet Democrats and the corporate press alike paint any attempt at passing the tamest of federal laws limiting abortion to 15 weeks as far-reaching. They also vilify state pro-life policies as reducing women to “breeding stocks” and even blame the lifesaving laws for abortion pill-linked deaths and a rise in infant passing.
When late-term abortions, which they have long claimed do not occur, are paused or curbed, media like the New York Times lament it and use their influence to push for the taxpayer-funded butchering of second- and third-trimester babies to continue.
The corporate media have even taken to meddling in elections by claiming, against all evidence, that advocating for the protection of women and babies is a losing issue.
You wouldn’t know it from the press’ portrayal of the issue, but Americans are far more pro-life than they get credit for. The media’s horrific fake fact-checks and elevation of Democrats’ abortion lies, however, intentionally interfere with voters’ ability to discern that and vote accordingly.
Without their allies in the propaganda press, Democrats’ abortion extremism would not get very far. The corruption plaguing corporate newsrooms, however, has made the fight to end unborn babies’ lives at any point in pregnancy a reality.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
