Former CBS reporter Kate Smith told CNN's Brian Stelter the split media coverage of pro-life and pro-abortion demonstrations is "absolutely" misleading.
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Pro-life activists took issue with Planned Parenthood news content director Kate Smith's declaration on CNN Sunday that equal media coverage of both pro-life and pro-abortion protests following the Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling is a "distortion of the facts" because a majority of Americans support legal abortion.
"Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter asked Smith, who formerly worked for CBS News, to comment on split screen coverage of individuals cheering and jeering the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court ruling that legalized abortion.
"That 50-50 split. Isn't that actually misleading? Isn't that actually distorting?" Stelter asked.
"Absolutely, Brian," Smith said. "That is a complete distortion of the facts that we know about how people feel about abortion access, and specifically the legality of abortion."
"We know that 8 in 10 Americans want abortion to be legal," she said. "So when you put that split screen up, you know one person who loves it, one person who hates, well that's completely ignoring the facts."
Eight in 10 Americans approve of legalized abortion, but the "vast majority" also believe there should be at least some restrictions on the procedure, a Gallup survey from September 2020 found.
Pro-life activists pushed back on Smith's narrative surrounding the statistic, as well as her assertions about the media.
"The problem with statements like that is the lack of a follow-up question because if you like any limits on abortion, you never liked Roe," Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told Fox News Digital. "Abortion will be not the Democrats' ticket out of the electoral mess they’ve created, because ending innocent life isn’t really a positive agenda. And with the Supreme Court now out of the way, a vigorous debate will be engaged to go past unsupported statements about so-called support for all abortion."
Hawkins pointed to a Marist poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus in January that showed at least 7 in 10 Americans want abortion limits. The poll found that 17 percent of Americans want abortion available any time throughout pregnancy, while 12 percent said abortion should be allowed only during the first six months of pregnancy. Twenty-two percent said abortion should only be available during the first three months of pregnancy, and 49 percent of Americans responded that abortion should be only allowed in rare circumstances, or never.
Hawkins added that Students for Life’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement Poll of Millennials and Gen Z found that 8 in 10 wanted a voice and a vote on abortion, which Roe "did not offer as it put the power in the hands of courts."
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"Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter asked Smith, who formerly worked for CBS News, to comment on split screen coverage of individuals cheering and jeering the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court ruling that legalized abortion.
"That 50-50 split. Isn't that actually misleading? Isn't that actually distorting?" Stelter asked.
"Absolutely, Brian," Smith said. "That is a complete distortion of the facts that we know about how people feel about abortion access, and specifically the legality of abortion."
"We know that 8 in 10 Americans want abortion to be legal," she said. "So when you put that split screen up, you know one person who loves it, one person who hates, well that's completely ignoring the facts."
Eight in 10 Americans approve of legalized abortion, but the "vast majority" also believe there should be at least some restrictions on the procedure, a Gallup survey from September 2020 found.
Pro-life activists pushed back on Smith's narrative surrounding the statistic, as well as her assertions about the media.
"The problem with statements like that is the lack of a follow-up question because if you like any limits on abortion, you never liked Roe," Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told Fox News Digital. "Abortion will be not the Democrats' ticket out of the electoral mess they’ve created, because ending innocent life isn’t really a positive agenda. And with the Supreme Court now out of the way, a vigorous debate will be engaged to go past unsupported statements about so-called support for all abortion."
Hawkins pointed to a Marist poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus in January that showed at least 7 in 10 Americans want abortion limits. The poll found that 17 percent of Americans want abortion available any time throughout pregnancy, while 12 percent said abortion should be allowed only during the first six months of pregnancy. Twenty-two percent said abortion should only be available during the first three months of pregnancy, and 49 percent of Americans responded that abortion should be only allowed in rare circumstances, or never.
Hawkins added that Students for Life’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement Poll of Millennials and Gen Z found that 8 in 10 wanted a voice and a vote on abortion, which Roe "did not offer as it put the power in the hands of courts."
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