The billboards, purchased by the Seattle-based "Shout Your Abortion," were created to combat pro-life signs by crisis pregnancy centers. The pro-abortion organization argued that the signs "traumatize" women traveling from pro-life states to Carbondale, where they can legally have abortions. The pro-abortion signs contain messages like "God's Plan Includes Abortion."
The NPR story takes several statements from Shout Your Abortion and pro-abortion groups, but it only included two sentences to represent the pro-life position.
"The group's founder, Mary Ann Kuharski, said their billboards generate about 500 calls per month, with a slight increase since the Dobbs Supreme Court decision.'We don't argue,' she says. 'We don't use harsh words. We never even use the word abortion on our billboards.'"
For a taxpayer-funded news source that is supposed to be unbiased, NPR's piece appears to serve as free political advertising for pro-abortion groups more than anything else.
This is the second time NPR has promoted Shout Your Abortion and the billboards. The first story was published by NPR Illinois on September 12. This second story, aired on NPR's "Morning Edition" on October 11, went as far as to describe pro-life pregnancy centers as "so-called crisis pregnancy centers." The written version of the same story edited this line to read "often called 'crisis pregnancy centers.'"
