Media Claims It’s “Pro-Choice,” But Slams Pregnancy Centers Offering Women Pro-Life Choices
As the Democrat Party scrambled to stay uniform following calls for President Biden to step down, the media has done its best to shift the narrative to more familiar topics. Tuesday’s CBS Mornings, in coalition with left-wing ProPublica, ran a segment targeting the many pro-life Crisis Pregnancy Centers programs funded by the Texas state legislature.
Abortion, being one of the more hot button issues in the upcoming election, was an underlying theme to this conversation, as the network and ProPublica did their best to paint the programs as money grabbing, back alley organizations without any accountability.
On Tuesday morning, the liberal news outlets took aim at the Thriving Texas Families (TTF) program, formerly known as Alternatives to Abortion. Texas’s efforts to support alternative to abortion was maligned on CBS Mornings for nearly 6 minutes during their morning segments:
GAYLE KING: Since the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, tax-payer money has been poured into what are known as Crisis Pregnancy Centers. These controversial organizations have a long-stated mission to discourage pregnant women from seeking abortions. At least 18 states fund Crisis Pregnancy Centers, but no state has spent more money on them than the state of Texas.
Reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns continued in the diatribe, criticizing Republican programs for where their money has been invested, and for not doing more. She cited only one organization funded by TTF to suggest the entire program was rift with fraud and mismanagement:
REP. JEFF LEACH (R-TX): If taxpayer dollars aren’t being spent appropriately, then we will hold those responsible accountable.
HUEY-BURNS: Are you concerned this program is ripe for fraud?
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LEACH: No, I’m not. We should be giving them more resources, not less.
HUEY-BURNS: Invoices we obtained show the programs second largest contractor, Human Coalition, spent roughly $2 million of its state funding every year since 2019 on marketing costs. That’s ten times more than what it spent on direct client assistance like diapers.
While Huey-Burns attacked the program, she promoted the efforts of two other organizations that did not receive funds from TTF. At no point did she give a similar financial break down of those organizations as she did for the Human Coalition, nor did she give a reason for why they were denied access to the funds.
Ironic for CBS as their pro-abortion views in the past never focused on such topics as the health of a baby following delivery. As Texas and many other states move forward in their goals of pro-life systems, it should be no surprise to see this kind of reporting from the network.
This is nothing new for ProPublica, and certainly not for CBS. Leading up to the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the multiple attacks on the pro-life centers, networks wrote off the incidents, questioning the organizations claims of victimhood. It is clear that these groups, along with the pro-life movement on the whole, are anything but respected by the media, let alone given fair coverage.
LifeNews Note: Mary Clare Waldron writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.
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