As they did the previous evening, the Friday morning newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC involved them clutching their pearls over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing into law a six-week abortion ban to protect the lives of the unborn in his state. And despite the Heartbeat Protection Act including widely supported exceptions such as rape, incest, to protect the life of the mother, and human trafficking, the networks treated it as a catastrophe that only served to harm women.
ABC’s Good Morning America didn’t even say the name of the bill, let alone the exceptions it allowed as co-anchor George Stephanopoulos fretted: “Florida has passed one of the strictest abortion bands in the country.”
Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott agreed and huffed that “DeSantis wasted no time signing it” and warned, “this would have significant implications on access to abortion in the South.” “I just got back from Florida. Clinics there have seen a surge in out-of-state patients traveling to Florida for abortion care,” she added.
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