Two weeks ago, we reposted an excellent story from Massachusetts Citizens for Life titled “Report: Massachusetts abortions double in 2024 as the abortion pill and out-of-state shipments spike”.
You didn’t have to be either a mathematician or a social scientist to figure out why the number of abortions jumped 103%–from 24,355 in 2023 to 49,450 in 2024.
“The rise was driven primarily by a sharp expansion of telehealth and chemical abortion, which became the dominant method statewide.”
The escalation suggests that Massachusetts “now functions primarily as a regional access hub.” Evidence? Massachusetts Citizens wrote
“In 2024, 27,836 abortions involved out-of-state residents, compared with 21,407 Massachusetts residents, marking a reversal from 2023, when in-state patients comprised the majorit.”
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Then, earlier this week, reporter Namu chipped in with a piece for MassLive, headlined “Abortions nearly doubled from 2023 to 2024 in Mass.; how abortion activists and opponents view that”. . Let’s see what she wrote.
For starters, Sampath (in 2022, the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s “Rookie of the Year”) glosses over the huge increase—for example, “Tapestry Health Northampton provided 38 abortions in 2023, a number that more than tripled in 2024, rising to 130.” Instead she is content to bad-mouth “Abortion Pill Reversal” (“unsound science”), celebrate the alleged safety of abortion pills (“It’s clearly supported by science”), and portray the Pregnancy Resource Centers as “a $2.5 billion industry across the country.”
Myrna Maloney Flynn, President and CEO of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, found little balance—okay, virtually no balance—in Sampath’s story which purports to tell us “how abortion activists and opponents view” the startling increase in the number of abortions in the Commonwealth.
‘It’s fitting that MassLive published this piece on April Fool’s Day; with so little truth to it, a reader could legitimately believe it to be satire,” she tells NRL News Today.
“She mentions ‘birthing people’ and ‘contents of the uterus’ and deems mifepristone ‘safe,’” Flynn remarks. “Then there’s the reporter’s wildly fantastic insinuation that pregnancy resource centers are a lucrative business. The story here isn’t as much about the spike in Massachusetts abortions but instead about a delusional inability to recognize facts.”
As an illustration, “I’m no math whiz, but I know that the sum of 2024 abortions more than doubled those in 2023, not ‘nearly doubled’ them.”
Flynn also noticed the absence of comments from local abortion providers in the story.
If you’re proud of a product you sell and believe in it, you make time for the media. Alas, no one at the local abortion provider was around to comment on its record sales. In contrast, a brave pro-life physician stepped up to defend the work of pregnancy resource centers and the merits of abortion pill reversal, while a local nonprofit leader reminded readers that women left alone with abortion pills are effectively abandoned and endangered by the abortion industry.
Flynn’s conclusion?
In an article comprised largely of falsehoods, I give the writer credit for including these two lone voices of truth.
