{"id":2618289,"date":"2026-06-24T05:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-years-post-dobbs-corporate-medias-abortion-fearmongering-proves-more-false-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:17:40","slug":"four-years-post-dobbs-corporate-medias-abortion-fearmongering-proves-more-false-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-years-post-dobbs-corporate-medias-abortion-fearmongering-proves-more-false-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Years Post-Dobbs, Media\u2019s Abortion Fearmongering Proves False"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffour-years-post-dobbs-corporate-medias-abortion-fearmongering-proves-more-false-than-ever%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2618289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Four years after the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, which ended 50 years of abortion rights and returned regulation power to the states and their elected officials, media narratives claiming chaos and catastrophe have largely been false. Contrary to media predictions of a dystopian &#8220;post-Roe&#8221; America where women would die and hospitals would shut down,evidence shows that these fears were overstated or unfounded. The claim that pro-life laws caused women\u2019s deaths, notably linked to the abortion pill, has been contradicted by reports indicating that patient care has not significantly worsened, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-spars-with-omb-director-on-biden-admins-obsession-with-birthing-people\/\" title=\"GOP Rep. Spars With OMB Director On Biden Admin\u2019s Obsession With \u2018Birthing People\u2019\">maternal mortality rates<\/a> have actually declined post-Dobbs. Media outlets also exaggerated stories about doctors fleeing states or hospitals closing, but research suggests no significant decline in medical providers or birth-related medical services. instead, much of the media coverage fueled fears and misinformation, including false assertions that women lost their citizenship or faced jail for pregnancy complications. Regarding political impact, abortion has not remained a dominant issue in the 2024 election, ranking behind other concerns like the economy and crime. The narrative that Republicans aim to ban all abortions or that federal laws are being pushed to do so is misleading; the decision in Dobbs emphasizes that abortion policy is now determined by voters and their representatives,not unelected courts. Democratic and activist efforts, including deceptive ballot measures and importing abortion drugs into states where they are banned, continue to shape the discourse, but the core legal principle remains that abortion regulation is a matter for elected officials, not the courts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Four years ago, the Supreme Court effectively ended 50 years of bad law and handed abortion regulation back to the American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/19-1392_6j37.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cpeople and their elected representatives.\u201d<\/a> All of the doom and gloom the corporate media swore would happen because of this 2022 <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision, it turns out, was a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Media spent the months leading up to the decision <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/22\/as-dobbs-decision-nears-corporate-media-abortion-propaganda-machine-is-firing-on-all-cylinders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mocking<\/a> pro-lifers and their policies. When the Dobbs ruling was leaked and then officially posted, those same outlets insisted that the Supreme Court\u2019s confirmation that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jul\/25\/us-abortion-bans-states-after-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdystopian American reality.\u201d<\/a> Their <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1540338680149278720?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emotional blackmail<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1540340524753817605?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on-camera blubbering<\/a> were just the beginning of a years-long spiral and campaign to undermine the court and keep abortion propaganda alive and well with hopes of influencing the 2022 and 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest falsehood <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/24\/leftists-corrupt-media-predictably-melt-down-over-dobbs-allowing-babies-to-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touted<\/a> by the propaganda press following Dobbs was that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1541807746550571013?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cwomen will die.\u201d<\/a> This fabrication that pro-lifers are on the hook for the deaths of women, many linked to the popular yet dangerous abortion pill, prevailed <a href=\"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2024\/06\/24\/emtala-supreme-court-women-die-abortion-bans-pregnant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for years<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/18\/media-democrats-blame-pro-lifers-after-the-abortion-pill-they-promote-killed-a-woman-and-her-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">after<\/a> the Supreme Court decision.<\/p>\n<p>Women and countless babies certainly have died since <em>Dobbs<\/em>, but their deaths were not due to pro-life laws. On the contrary, the abortion activism amplified and fueled by corporate media played a role in the deaths of women due to the prevalence of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/20\/amber-thurman-died-from-the-abortion-pill-not-pro-life-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mifepristone and malpractice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One such example appeared in The Washington Post in July 2022, when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/monica-hesse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cgender\u201d columnist <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/bU0bO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that laws limiting abortions are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2022\/07\/22\/abortion-ban-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hell on Earth<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen in agony. Doctors afraid of easing their pain. Is this the post-Roe America antiabortion activists envisioned?\u201d she wrote in the subhead. <\/p>\n<p>Politico even tasked itself with conducting <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/16\/politicos-one-side-abortion-survey-exposes-media-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one-sided abortion surveys<\/a> soliciting content for sob stories blaming <em>Dobbs<\/em> for Americans\u2019 woes trying to fill prescriptions or get \u201cemergency treatment for a miscarriage or pregnancy-related complication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What The Washington Post and other outlets lamenting the end of <em>Roe <\/em>failed to mention is that corporate media played a key role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-dobbs-decision-has-unleashed-legal-chaos-for-doctors-and-patients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scaring doctors and hospitals<\/a> out of treating women in desperate need of emergency medical care. They repeatedly use stories of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/29\/democrat-activists-exploit-tragic-miscarriages-like-mine-to-sell-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tragic miscarriages<\/a> to con people into believing that the only way women suffering the spontaneous, devastating, and premature end of a pregnancy will be properly cared for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/22\/pro-abortion-er-establishment-is-trying-to-scare-women-into-believing-they-cant-get-emergency-treatment-for-miscarriages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">is if they reject anything but abortion for all.<\/a> One NPR headline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/07\/03\/1109015302\/abortion-prosecuting-pregnancy-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insisted<\/a> that \u201cLosing a pregnancy could land you in jail in post-Roe America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, none of the 50 states, even those that limit or outlaw abortion, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/29\/no-dobbs-doesnt-stop-doctors-from-treating-ectopic-pregnancies-or-miscarriages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminalize treatment<\/a> of complications from ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage. The very limited number of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/03\/24\/media-falsely-paint-woman-charged-with-murdering-her-baby-as-a-victim-of-pro-life-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">women<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/09\/heartbeat-international-launches-tracker-to-monitor-abortion-pill-poisonings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">men<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/09\/10\/new-york-ag-tries-to-stop-texas-from-punishing-abortion-drug-traffickers-who-broke-texas-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doctors<\/a> charged with abortion-related crimes were accused after evidence indicated they explicitly participated in attempts to kill unborn babies in violation of certain states\u2019 laws. <\/p>\n<p>The real harm after <em>Dobbs,<\/em> of course, came at the hands of the media\u2019s Democrat allies who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/03\/lets-burn-this-place-down-left-calls-for-violence-after-treasonous-scotus-abortion-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called for the violent destruction<\/a> of the Supreme Court. Hundreds of pro-abortion activists, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/12\/white-house-press-secretary-encourages-angry-mobs-surrounding-supreme-court-justices-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">behest of the Biden White House<\/a>, descended on Republican-nominated justices\u2019 homes to intimidate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/27\/politics\/kavanaugh-roske-arrest-warrant\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even assassinate them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy media couldn\u2019t be bothered with documenting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/letter-abortion-group-janes-revenge-open-season-pro-life-pregnancy-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201copen season\u201d<\/a> on pro-lifers and the high bench, though. Instead, talking heads like ABC Senior Correspondent Terry Moran fanned the flames by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/abcs-terry-moran-women-will-die-supreme-court-ruling-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falsely suggesting<\/a> that <em>Dobbs<\/em> \u201cchanges the status of American women as citizens of the United States and as citizens of their states.\u201d The assertion that women are \u201cno longer full citizens\u201d because certain states won\u2019t allow them to kill their babies was repeated in headlines from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/28\/opinion\/citizens-no-more.html?eafs_enabled=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/dobbs-women-citizenship-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps an even worse assertion appeared in the Los Angeles Times. The California newspaper\u2019s article, headlined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2022-07-12\/threats-to-criminalize-out-of-state-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThreats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America,\u201d<\/a> suggested that states\u2019 attempts to enact popular abortion limits are somehow equivalent to the Fugitive Slave Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe quarries this time aren\u2019t Black slaves, but those who assist pregnant women to seek abortions out of state, including employers who pay for the travel and others who help them,\u201d the paper claimed. <\/p>\n<p>The meltdown didn\u2019t stop there. Front pages were filled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/06\/28\/abortion-ban-roe-doctors-confusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">horror stories<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7297046\/dobbs-supreme-court-abortion-doctors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >obstetrician-gynecologists fleeing pro-life states<\/a><\/a> in droves and leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/10\/12\/1128335563\/maternity-care-deserts-march-of-dimes-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cmaternity care deserts\u201d<\/a> in their wake. <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2833030?utm_campaign=articlePDF&#038;utm_medium=articlePDFlink&#038;utm_source=articlePDF&#038;utm_content=jamanetworkopen.2025.1608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">On the contrary, research shows<\/a>\u201cthere are no major changes in the supply of OBGYNs associated with the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision.\u201d In fact, in 2023, the year after <em>Dobbs<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/dobbs-and-medical-deserts-will-pro-life-laws-drive-away-doctors-and-lead-to-hospital-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">86.8 percent<\/a> of all medical residency candidates applied in pro-life states, and \u201cvirtually all residency spots were filled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vox similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/7\/1\/23180626\/roe-dobbs-charts-impact-abortion-women-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened<\/a> \u201chigher maternal mortality rates\u201d post-<em>Dobbs<\/em>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-budget-proposal-refers-to-mothers-as-birthing-people\/\" title=\"Biden Budget Proposal Refers To Mothers As \u2018Birthing People\u2019\">maternal mortality rate<\/a>, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aha.org\/news\/headline\/2025-02-06-cdc-us-maternal-mortality-rate-declined-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declined in the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/hestat113.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">years following the end of <em>Roe.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Politico argued shortly after the 2022 midterms that abortion is a \u201clitmus test in Republican presidential politics\u201d that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/20\/abortion-2024-gop-governors-00074594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdefine the [2024] presidential race.\u201d<\/a> In reality, abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2024\/09\/09\/issues-and-the-2024-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ranked<\/a> behind the economy, foreign policy, crime, immigration, and more as top concerns for voters heading into the 2024 polls. Even during the primaries, abortion was not the touchstone <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/23\/everything-kamala-harris-said-about-abortion-in-her-dnc-speech-was-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats<\/a> and their allies in the press tried to make it.<\/p>\n<p>Another spin pushed by the media in 2022 was that Republicans would find a way to outlaw abortion entirely. Those same outlets declared months later that the GOP could not celebrate <em>Dobbs<\/em> and support federal legislation like Sen. Lindsey Graham\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/14\/opinion\/lindsey-graham-cruel-abortion-ban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ccruel\u201d<\/a> ban on killing babies in the womb after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a law that would bring the U.S. up to speed <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/13\/make-democrats-defend-their-abortion-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with the abortion policies in most European countries<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s either disingenuous, constitutionally illiterate, or both for Democrats to claim that a Republican push to ban some or all abortions at the federal level is out of line with the pro-life movement\u2019s goal of the past 50 years,\u201d Federalist Assignment Editor Elle Purnell noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/15\/yes-outlawing-the-barbarism-of-abortion-was-always-the-goal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While corporate media have done their best to muddy the waters and keep Democrats\u2019 abortion delusions at the center of the news cycle, what Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the <em>Dobbs<\/em> majority opinion about the future of abortion law has remained relatively true: The people and their elected representatives are in charge of abortion policy. <\/p>\n<p>Any perversion of this parameter isn\u2019t at the hands of pro-lifers or Republicans who pass limits on ending life in the womb, but is solely due to Democrats and abortion activists who conjured <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/03\/every-state-facing-deceptive-unlimited-abortion-ballot-measures-this-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deceptive abortion ballot measure battles<\/a> in key states and started sending stockpiles of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/14\/thomas-alito-blast-scotus-for-helping-undermine-dobbs-with-abortion-drug-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dangerous abortion drugs into states where they are banned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of \u201cThe Federalist Radio Hour.\u201d Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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