The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday. Along with several other questionable choices — like choosing the photo of a wannabe assassin’s bullet whizzing past President Donald Trump instead of the “Fight! Fight! Fight!” photo — the award for public service was given to ProPublica. As The New York Times elaborates: “ProPublica won the award for public service, considered the most prestigious of the Pulitzers, for its coverage of the impact of state abortion bans across the country. The reporters Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Cassandra Jaramillo and the photographer Stacy Kranitz used death certificates and hospital records to uncover how the bans had directly led to preventable deaths of mothers.”
When ProPublica published this piece last September, there was a clear motive in mind. That motive was to bolster the only narrative that Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris had working in her favor: abortion rights. In an effort to sway Georgia voters, ProPublica told the story of spewed propaganda regarding the death of Amber Nicole Thurman. According to the article’s premise, this young mother died because of Georgia’s pro-life laws.
The truth: This poor young mother died of acute sepsis after she ingested the abortion pill.
Our Sterling Henry accurately framed this piece of propaganda in yesterday’s Executive Summary, stating, “ProPublica would have you believe Thurman died because she was refused an abortion; the fact is that she died because she received one.”
The abortion pill, as I discussed last week, is far more dangerous to mothers than the Food and Drug Administration has led the public to believe. According to a study conducted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), the rate of women needing to be hospitalized after taking mifepristone — the abortion pill — is 11%. The potential risks to the mother are “sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.” That’s about 22 times higher than the FDA will admit.
As much as the Leftmedia is trying to spin the aforementioned data as bogus, the study is sound, and The Federalist methodically proves that.
These findings are serious enough that the current Food and Drug Administration head, Dr. Marty Makary, might be forced to reverse course on his initial statement that he didn’t plan to tighten up the restrictions on mifepristone and misoprostol, the chemical abortion one-two punch. (Chemical abortions are reversible if mothers have regrets and can get care quickly enough.)
This Pulitzer is despicable, horrendous, and infuriating. The most prestigious journalism award has been reduced to what ranks as the best propaganda on behalf of the Democrat Party. While this isn’t exactly unexpected — recall that a Pulitzer was also given to “journalists” who cooked up the Russia collusion hoax — awarding this sort of outright abortion lie is just sickening.
