On Saturday’s edition of PBS News Weekend, the abortion expert relied upon by PBS, professor Mary Ziegler, made an embarrassing flub of a basic fact, apparently confusing the Hyde Amendment of 1976, which outlawed federal funding for abortion, to the Comstock Act of 1873, making Ziegler just over a century off.
Ziegler, professor at the University of California-Davis Law School, was brought on to discuss how the overturning of Roe v. Wade had shifted the abortion battle to the states, but revealed her dismissive attitude toward the pro-life philosophy with her “fetal” labels. The media’s standard ideological labeling bias also took hold, as “conservatives” were cited but not liberals.
Anchor John Yang: Since the Supreme Court said that access to abortion services was not protected by the U.S. Constitution, attempts to use the ballot box to…
