During the past presidential election season, abortion stories were a hot ticket across the network evening news. The networks did everything in their power to try to make the issue a dispositive one, in the hopes of tilting the election to Vice President Kamala Harris. With the election now behind us, abortion stories are largely out of view. But the CBS Evening News changed that, at least for tonight.
Watch as CBS gives sympathetic treatment to a midwife accused of illegally performing abortions in the state of Texas:
SHAMLIAN: Court documents charge that Rojas provided medication to induce an abortion in March, and allege she told her patient her pregnancy was likely nonviable. She allegedly performed another abortion on a different patient in January. The method is unclear. A search warrant found misoprostol in Rojas’ car and one of her clinics….
