Although the New York Times and some of the big TV networks covered how the Trump administration restored and ratcheted up the global gag rule, corporate media mostly ignored the sweeping nature of the ban and its dramatic impacts on women across the world.The Project's 2020 list included a story about the effects losing Roe would have on women's risk of prosecution for endangering unborn fetuses. As Naomi Randolph explained in afor Ms.
The independent media saw the dangers posed by state laws such as the Human Life Protection Act years before corporate news outlets started covering them with any consistency.Back in 1999, Project Censored included another reproductive rights-related story originally reported by Ms. Magazine on our top 25 list, this one about the effect of hospital mergers on women's health.
But history shows that the corporate media are not reliable guardians of women's reproductive rights. As Project Censored's monitoring of underreported stories shows, independent media, especially independent feminist outlets such as Ms. Magazine and Rewire News Group, do a much better job of reporting on reproductive health issues than most corporate outlets.