This morning I received an e-mail from The New York Times advertising a new 8-minute documentary they have produced about what abortion in American looks like after Roe. It’s a first-person narrative of a 27-year old woman who puts herself through a “self-managed” abortion. The film is a how-to guide for anyone living in a state where abortion is illegal. It shows women how to order the drug mifepristone from out of state so that they can put their unborn child to death in the privacy of their own home.
This is naked advocacy on the part of The New York Times. The Times is making no pretense to objectivity here. They are simply crafting a sympathetic narrative that evades the fundamental moral question in order to manipulate viewers. Indeed, the film ends with the young woman declaring what our nation really needs now that Roe is gone: “The real solution is a society which values women’s bodily autonomy. But until then, self-managed abortion will be the best way for…
