On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we're discussing media coverage of the post-Roe landscape in the US. This week, West Virginia became the latest state to pass a near-total ban on abortion and Indiana's ban went into effect on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham introduced an extreme 15-week federal abortion ban.
How are the media covering the impact of anti-abortion laws on the lives and well being of women, girls, and pregnant people?
Guests:
Jodi Jacabson, writer and former president and editor-in-chief of Rewire News
Meaghan Winter, freelance magazine writer and author of All Politics Is Local: Why Progressives Must Fight for the States
Web Resources:
The Nation: How Kansas Kept Abortion Legal
The Washington Post: As Indiana’s abortion ban goes into effect, doctors brace for impact
The Guardian: Republicans won’t stop until abortion is banned across America. And it could be
The Washington Post: 1 in 3 American women have already lost abortion access. More restrictive laws are coming.
