Media outlets overstate implications of a Roe v. Wade reversal
The abortion issue receives a considerable amount of media coverage. However, media outlets do a consistently poor job explaining the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade. Some outlets hint that when Roe is overturned, abortion would be banned everywhere. Others correctly report that a reversal of Roe would return abortion policy to the states — but use faulty analyses by abortion-rights groups to argue that abortion would quickly be banned in a high percentage of states. Sadly, even some academics have gotten into the act. A recent NBER study that analyzed how the reversal of Roe would impact the abortion […]
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