Planned Parenthood recently added a former member of the legacy media to its payroll.
In an unsurprising move, former CBS reporter Kate Smith, whom conservatives long suspected had a bias in favor of abortion, is joining the Planned Parenthood Federation of America as its senior director of news content.
The move is indicative of the legacy media’s bias in favor of abortion and shows why people distrust the legacy media.
When Smith left her job as a CBS reporter covering “abortion access” in July 2021, she revealed on Twitter that she supports legal abortion and upholding Roe v. Wade — to the surprise of almost no one who followed her work.
Smith’s so-called reporting was dismantled by National Review in 2020 while she was employed by CBS. Her pinned tweet at the time was a 2019 interview with Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson. Her tweet, in part, said, “It’s hard to overstate what a critical moment this is for abortion access.”
Right, because access to killing unborn human beings is the problem here. The legacy media, and Planned Parenthood, will not tell you that abortion kills.
Instead, they had Smith playing defense for the Democratic Party because they support letting babies born alive following an attempted abortion die without medical intervention or legal repercussions.
Smith framed this topic not as letting babies live after they’re born but as an abortion restriction. Here are the first two paragraphs of her February 2019 story on the matter.
“The ‘Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,’ a piece of legislation that echoed existing laws and medical practices, had little chance of passing in the Senate on Monday evening,” Smith wrote. “And as predicted, it ultimately failed.
“But its introduction and subsequent debate underscores something larger and more substantial than the bill itself: a push by the conservative right to reframe the reproductive rights debate toward third-trimester abortions.”
That was not an opinion article. CBS considers this report on leaving newborn babies to die unbiased reporting.
The article then went on to claim, falsely, that abortion survivors don’t exist — even though people such as Melissa Ohden and Gianna Jessen exist and are happy to be alive.
“Abortion rights advocates rebuked the legislation and the rhetoric surrounding it, saying that the situation described in the bill — infants surviving abortions — is an extreme rarity, only occurring in instances of abnormalities so severe that the fetus has been deemed unviable,” Smith wrote.
The legacy media should try to be fair and balanced, not advocate something that has killed more than 60 million people in America since 1973.
Here is some advice to the legacy media when covering abortion: Interview pro-lifers and pro-life organizations, try to understand why people think the way they do, and don’t inject your opinion into the story. Maybe even be honest and say what abortion does: It ends a human life. And if the legacy media want to regain people’s trust, outlets should do a better job vetting reporters so they do not end up with activists like Smith.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.
