The taxpayer-supported PBS News Weekend show on Saturday provided some helpful PR for the abortion megaplex Planned Parenthood. It’s been a favorite source for pro-abortion alarmist takes ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. As usual with PBS, there are no voices raised to celebrate saving infant lives, but a single-minded focus on the lost opportunities to abort, with the hardest cases presented as commonplace.
Host John Yang portrayed good news for life as bad news in the over-seven-minute-long segment:
Yang: While the number of legal abortions has gone up nationwide since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, a recent report from a group that supports reproductive rights says there have been sharp declines in states that impose new restrictions on abortion access. One of those states, Wisconsin, saw around 7,000 fewer abortions in the year following the court’s decision than the state’s annual average. Marisa Wojcik of PBS Wisconsin spoke with doctors there about the effect on their work and on their patients.
Jenn Vollstedt, Former Labor and Delivery Nurse: When I got the results, I knew what I wanted to do. It was really hard emotionally. I was devastated. I wanted that baby.
Marisa Wojcik: Jenn Vollstedt is a former labor and delivery nurse in Milwaukee. At 12 weeks pregnant, Vollstedt was told something wasn’t right. At 19 weeks pregnant, she found out she and her unborn child were at risk.
Vollstedt: I knew that if I carried that pregnancy to term I was putting my own health at risk. And I also knew that my baby if she survived a term would only suffer.
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Wojcik: Jenn Vollstedt made her decision while abortion was still legal. The cascade of events following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the constitutional right to an abortion hit states like Wisconsin the hardest, creating a near total abortion ban in the state one year ago.
Wojcik found her Planned Parenthood source.
Wojcik: Before Roe v. Wade was overturned, Dr. Kristen Lyerly, an OB/GYN from Green Bay, counseled patients at one of the few Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin that provided abortions following the decision she Dr. Ford and Dr. Jenn Jury McIntosh, a maternal fetal medicine physician in Milwaukee, joined a lawsuit challenging the 1849 law.
Dr. Jenn Jury McIntosh, Maternal Fetal Medicine: Now we’re operating this narrow channel of providing the best care, not committing malpractice, and being careful not to break a law. These pregnant people either have high-risk conditions themselves, so medical complications. But on the flip side, we also take care of fetuses. So it’s the most family-centered outcome that we can.
Wojcik: Prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling, Wisconsin patients and physicians had more options when it came to making decisions about reproductive health care.
By “reproductive health care,” Wojcik means abortion, though her report was heavy on euphemisms to avoid the word, both from Wojcik and the abortion doctors she interviewed.
Wojcik: Some physicians like Dr. Lyerly, left Wisconsin so they can continue to provide reproductive care without fear of prosecution.
Wojcik, ostensibly a reporter, called for changing the abortion laws of Wisconsin.
Wojcik: Physicians worry, not only about the consequences today, but those yet to come….And for Jenn Vollstedt, she hopes in the future Wisconsinites will be able to navigate these difficult decisions without the barriers in place today.
Wojcik’s PBS piece is getting predictable praise from pro-abortion like the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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LifeNews Note: Clay Waters is the director of Times Watch, an MRC project tracking the New York Times. Click here to follow Clay Waters on Twitter. This article originally appeared at NewsBusters.
