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PBS Favors Democratic Side on Abortion Issue in Michigan as Election Looms

The PBS NewsHour on Monday attempted to bolster the struggling Biden re-election campaign by focusing on a purported Democratic issue, abortion — or as PBS labels it, “reproductive health care” — in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in all 50 states. It’s a partisan tactic they’ve tried several times before both on weekdays and the weekend edition.

Monday’s story featured the program’s most biased reporter, political correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, complete with labeling bias. Besides the euphemistic references to “reproductive health care” and the “right to choose” a “procedure,” the reporter used the term “conservative” twice, but no liberal or even “progressive” ones.

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