“The Morning Show” starring megastars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon heavily pushed pro-abortion propaganda in a recent episode, including slamming pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) as “sick” and “insane.”
A popular drama show on Apple TV+, “The Morning Show” focuses on veteran anchor Alex Levy (Aniston), who grapples with the addition of a new anchor, Bradley Jackson (Witherspoon). In the season three premiere, Levy and Jackson look to cover the fall of Roe v. Wade and report on a woman who travels to Mexico from Texas every month to get abortion pills to distribute. It will likely be a long-running topic this season, given a previous interview from director and producer Mimi Leder with The New York Times.
“The first season brought us the #MeToo movement, and the second season brought us the pandemic,” she said. “This season, the focus was women’s agency, reproductive rights, the state of journalism and the state of the truth.”
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At the beginning of the episode, Jackson wanted to cover a story about abortion activists working to illegally dispense abortion pills but was turned down, as producers said she had a bias. In season one, Jackson had admitted on-air to having had an abortion at 15, which to producers meant she couldn’t be seen as neutral on the issue. Jackson later vented to Levy about it, framing the abortion activist as a hero.
“There’s this woman in Texas,” she said. “And she crosses over the border every single month into Mexico to get abortion pills for women who cannot drive hours to the nearest clinic. She’s doing work that really matters.” Jackson begged for Levy to take the story instead, and called the abortion activist a hero who saves lives.
“I really admire you. I admire what you do,” she told the activist. “And when I was pregnant as a teenager, I knew that I could never tell my mother. And there was a woman like you, and she saved my life. I just wanted other women to know that there are people like you out there and that they don’t have to feel alone.”
Induced abortion violently, intentionally, and directly kills preborn children and is not medically necessary. It takes lives rather than saving them. But it’s likely that the phrase “saved my life” in most cases actually means ‘preserved my way of life by ending my child’s life.’
While on a plane to Texas, Levy and the crew discuss abortion and PRCs in Texas, with Levy suggesting there are “fake abortion clinics” in Texas that routinely lie to women. She is talking about PRCs, which don’t typically claim to commit abortion when they don’t.
“According to this article, a hundred. A hundred clinics routinely lie to pregnant women about how far along they are, so that they think they’re too late to terminate the pregnancy,” she said. “I mean, they’ll be three weeks along, and they’ll tell them that they’re eight weeks because the cutoff is six weeks.”
“The Morning Show” slams these (false) claims about PRCs as being “sick” and “insane,” with one character saying, “I agree. We all agree. Things in Texas suck, lots of things. But maybe we just, like, I don’t know, look forward to the barbecue.”
Levy retorted, “Mmm. Yeah, it’s delicious. Brisket roasted over the ashes of women’s autonomy.”
Though PRCs are often derided by pro-abortion activists, the facts are quite different. PRCs have helped hundreds of thousands of women with material goods and resources including health care, housing, baby gear, diapers, clothing, daycare, educational opportunities, and more. One study estimated the value of the free services provided by PRCs to be over $270 million in just one year. It is abortion facilities, not PRCs, which are known to lie to women about gestational age, fetal development, and the risks and complications of abortion.
Later in the episode, the abortion activist is arrested, and Levy covers a protest aimed at promoting abortion pills. “She is part of an underground network of volunteers who have been bringing abortion pills from Mexico into the U.S.,” she said about the activist. “Medication abortion is safe, and it is effective, and here in the remote Rio Grande Valley often the only option.”
In reality, studies have found abortion pills to be four times more dangerous than first-trimester surgical abortions. The pro-abortion group Gynuity Health Projects published a study that found that six percent (6%) of women who took the abortion pill had complications requiring visits to the emergency room or urgent care, including 10 serious adverse events, eight hospitalizations, and five blood transfusions. Just over four percent (4%) of women required surgical interventions as well. Still, another study found that, among women who took the abortion pill in the United Kingdom between June 1, 2019, and May 31, 2021, six percent (6%) had to be treated for complications.
However, a separate study posited that the real complication rate is actually much higher; women are often advised to lie to emergency room staff and say they are having a miscarriage, leaving out the fact that they took the abortion pill and skewing the statistics on abortion pill complications.
“The Morning Show” may be filled with pro-abortion propaganda, but it’s clearly very short on the truth.
