{"id":321281,"date":"2024-11-08T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=321281"},"modified":"2024-11-13T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T07:05:25","slug":"fact-check-media-alabama-pro-life-law-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fact-check-media-alabama-pro-life-law-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Media uses story to blast Alabama’s pro-life law… but there’s a big problem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alabama mom Tamara Costa recently told The Meteor<\/a> that she was denied a necessary, life-saving induced abortion in the state in June of 2024. Yet a closer look proves that nothing in Alabama’s law prevented her from getting an induced abortion.<\/p>\n

Despite this, her story is being used to promote a pro-abortion agenda.<\/p>\n

One of the most glaring problems with The Meteor’s story is the fact that neither the reporting outlet itself, nor any of the physicians mentioned in the story, correctly noted the clear facts about Alabama’s abortion law<\/a> \u2014 which allows abortion to save the life or protect the health of the mother, or in cases where a baby is diagnosed with a “lethal anomaly.”\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Had this information been known by Costa (or by any of her physicians), The Meteor could have saved itself a whole lot of time instead of reporting a story that points to human error rather than to a law protecting preborn children. Not only was Costa’s baby diagnosed with a lethal anomaly<\/em><\/strong>, but Costa was herself later diagnosed with a condition that potentially threatened her own life \u2014 both<\/strong><\/em> allowable reasons for abortion under Alabama’s law.<\/p>\n

At a Glance:<\/strong><\/p>\n