Covering the Rise of Abortion Abolition
THIS WEEK:
Abortion Abolitionists are coming to your state.
As with many activists on the Extreme Right, these ones are:
led by men
getting national funding
building via local networks
pushing model legislation inside state legislatures
benefitting from assumptions that their goals are too extreme to ever materialize, while they work to normalize them slowly in the eyes of the public
For journalists, the question is no longer whether to cover these abortion abolitionists, but how to do so without normalizing their efforts to jail — and even execute — women who have sought abortions.
National coverage has mostly focused on the big picture. But there is not enough local reporting shedding light on the growing number of local initiatives.
To get some ideas about covering reproductive rights, in general, check out THIS.
For some background on the abortion abolitionist movement, check out THIS.
For a list of the model bills and info on actors, funders and tactics, check out THIS.
TIPS ON COVERING ABORTION ABOLITIONISTS
Name names
Multiple organizations are leading these pushes. Report on who’s working in your state.
Check out THIS
Don’t underestimate local buy-in
Check THIS out from Oklahoma
Explore growing fissures inside the anti-choice movement
Read THIS
Report on rhetorical tactics
For example, activists are comparing themselves to slavery abolitionists.
LIKE THIS
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