The Associated Press erased the credentials of more than 75 healthcare workers who flew into D.C. to represent the majority of OB/GYNs who do not perform abortions by captioning multiple photos of the medical professionals as “anti-abortion protesters wearing doctors uniforms.”
The Associated Press, which has a lengthy history of activism for abortion, posted multiple pictures of the doctors in front of the Supreme Court with the curious downplaying of their credentials.
“Anti-abortion protesters wearing doctors uniforms demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, as the court hears arguments in a case from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability,” read one caption.
“A man wears a sign on his back that reads ‘Unborn Lives Matter’ as he and other anti-abortion protesters wearing doctors uniforms demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, as the court hears arguments in a case from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability,” another caption stated.
The pro-life medical professionals came from a variety of groups, such as the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Some 93 percent of OB/GYNs had not done an abortion for an entire year of practice when surveyed in 2014.
Women’s rates of pre-term birth and risk of low-birthweight babies increase following a surgical abortion. Women who have had abortions also can face increased odds of depression and generalized anxiety.
The doctors were at the Supreme Court because it heard Mississippi’s Dobbs v. Jackson case about a law limiting abortions after 15 weeks gestation. Hundreds of activists came out to mark the occasion, both those who support and oppose abortion.
