Fox News Loves the ‘5 Fetuses’ Story, We Regret to Inform You
Anti-abortion groups are promoting unverified claims about how an activist obtained several fetuses, and right-wing media is happy to amplify the story.
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Earlier this week, an anti-abortion activist who was keeping five fetuses in their Washington, DC, refrigerator revealed that the group they’re affiliated with actually had 115 fetuses in its possession. The press conference in which they shared this information raised more questions than answers, including: Did they really obtain these fetuses from a medical waste truck outside an abortion clinic? Is this all just a big distraction from the fact that the activist, Lauren Handy, is facing more than 10 years in prison for blockading the entrance to an abortion clinic?
Handy is the director of activism for Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), a group that launched in October 2021 (with a misleading name, because opposing abortion cannot ever be progressive). But other anti-abortion groups are capitalizing on the story—most notably Live Action, led by Lila Rose—and right-wing media is all too happy to amplify it for them.