Corporate media is not interested in telling Americans the full story — which is why the nation’s trust in outlets remains near record lows and at least half of the country believes the press deliberately misleads them. The media’s flailing track record on abortion polls proves to be no exception.
The Associated Press is the latest corporate media outlet to twist abortion poll results in favor of Democrats’ abortion extremism. Its new poll claims that, just one year after the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs v. Jackson decision, “most adults still believe that abortion should be legal and most are in favor of Congress guaranteeing access to legal abortion.”
The outlet maintains that “most Democrats say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while most Republicans think it should be illegal in most or all cases.” What the AP’s coverage of its survey barely mentions is that a majority of U.S. adults are not on board with Democrats’ radical legalization of abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, despite the left’s incessant attempts to normalize their belief that abortion should be available on demand and taxpayers should fund it.
In fact, according to a Gallup poll, slightly more than half of Americans support a 15-week abortion ban like the one Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced last year, not Democrats’ abortion-up-until-birth extremism. Only later in the AP’s article does it admit that Americans are split on whether abortion should be legal at 15 weeks of gestation. That number drops to 27 percent at
