ProPublica Wins Pulitzer For Dishonest Smear Of Pro-Life Laws

If Americans needed further proof that the Pulitzer Prize has become nothing more than a glorified gold sticker given to the media’s biggest left-wing propagandists, the award’s 2025 winners are sure to convince them.

Included in the batch of this year’s winners is none other than ProPublica, a left-wing outlet reportedly bankrolled by leftist mega-donors and notorious for running interference for the Democrat Party and its allies. Several of the outlet’s writers won a Pulitzer last year for their dishonest smear campaign against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

The Pulitzer given to ProPublica this year is equally, if not more, reprehensible.

According to the Associated Press, ProPublica’s Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo, and Stacy Kranitz were awarded for what the AP characterizes as “reporting on pregnant women who died after doctors delayed urgent care in states with strict abortion laws.” What the Associated Press declines to mention, however, is that ProPublica’s “reporting” was left-wing propaganda designed to vilify life-saving pro-life laws in states across the country.

As The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported, ProPublica ran a story by Surana less than two months before the 2024 general election of a Georgia woman named Amber Thurman and her unborn twins. While Thurman “died in 2022 after … suffer[ing] untreated complications from the dangerous drug regimen responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions,” ProPublica “blam[ed] confusion about Georgia’s lifesaving abortion limits for [her] death.”

“A closer look at the circumstances that led to the single mother’s passing, however, indicates that she died on the table during a surgery only needed because she suffered severe complications from ingesting abortion pills associated with sometimes fatal complications,” Boyd wrote. “Thanks to the Biden administration’s radically relaxed abortion pill expansions, Thurman was able to induce abortion hours away at home unsupervised.”

These facts didn’t matter to the rest of the legacy media and Democrats, who gleefully took the propaganda gifted to them by ProPublica and used it to attack Republican-supported pro-life laws. The outlet’s dishonest framing was even parroted by 2024 Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz, the latter of whom spouted multiple falsehoods about the matter during his debate with now-Vice President J.D. Vance.

[READ: Amber Thurman Died From The Abortion Pill, Not Pro-Life Laws]

Last week, the Ethics and Public Policy Center published the “largest known study of the abortion pill,” in which researchers found a shocking “10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious or life-threatening adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion, far greater than the summary figure of ‘less than 0.5 percent’ in clinical trials reported on the drug label.”

Unsurprisingly, much of legacy media ignored or the analysis’ troubling findings.