Katie Yoder works as a staff writer and analyst for the Media Research Center's Culture department. As the Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow, Katie's coverage has been instrumental on a variety of issues in relation to the media including marriage, feminism, entertainment and religion, with a special focus on abortion. Katie has covered life issues from the March for Life and the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell to the videos exposing Planned Parenthood's harvesting of baby parts. Her work has received attention from numerous media outlets including Fox News, The Washington Times, EWTN and One America News Network. Katie has spoken on these issues in both radio and TV appearances. Before her current position, Katie interned at The Heritage Foundation after graduating from the University of Virginia with a major in English and a minor in Foreign Affairs.

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August 12, 2015, 10:33 AM EDT

A new video exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted babies shows that the organization is anything but “Care. No Matter What.” to women.

The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a sixth investigative video August 12 showing a former StemExpress tissue technician, Holly O’Donnell, revealing that StemExpress employees would take aborted baby parts from Planned Parenthood patients  with or without a woman’s consent. “[T]hey would just take what they wanted,” O’Donnell warned at one point, “And these mothers don’t know.”

August 11, 2015, 1:08 PM EDT

NBC’s relationship with the Clintons hasn’t always been cushy.

For Vanity Fair’s September issue, contributing editor Evgenia Peretz profiled Chelsea Clinton’s life in a piece entitled, “A Clinton to the Core.” In it, Peretz researched Chelsea’s background as an NBC special correspondent by interviewing an NBC veteran as well as an NBC insider, who dubbed Chelsea as NBC’s “highest-paid ghost” who “has to be very near the top” of NBC’s “bad decisions.”

August 10, 2015, 2:53 PM EDT

One retail store is right on target to fight gender stereotypes – according to the media, that is.

On Friday, Target announced that it would “phase out gender-based signage” by not advertising differences between boys’ and girls’ items, including toys and bedding. From The Washington Post to Upworthy, writers praised the “exciting move” that bashes “harmful” “gender stereotyping” and connected the decision to “awareness of the transgender community.”

August 6, 2015, 12:55 PM EDT

What has arms, legs, eyes and a heart? “Fetal tissue,” according to the three broadcast networks.

ABC, NBC and CBS journalists have not uttered the word “baby” once in their reports on the videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted baby parts. 

August 5, 2015, 4:14 PM EDT

Even after three weeks, the broadcast news shows are choosing to cover the death of one animal before the story of countless babies torn apart by a taxpayer-funded organization.

In the three weeks since the release of the first video exposing Planned Parenthood July 14, ABC, NBC and CBS spent 20 minutes, 21 seconds on the videos during their morning and evening news shows. In contrast, since July 28, the nets devoted 1 hour, 32 minutes and 16 seconds to Cecil, the famed African lion shot by an American dentist.

August 4, 2015, 1:49 PM EDT

“It was a twin.” That was how one Planned Parenthood worker identified her victim in the latest video exposing the abortion giant’s trafficking of baby parts. It was in a video in which a Planned Parenthood official claimed that providing “intact fetal cadavers” are “just a matter of line items.”

The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a fifth investigative video August 4 showing Planned Parenthood executive Melissa Farrell revealing that her affiliate can “get creative” while aborting babies for certain parts – for compensation. The video also caught Planned Parenthood workers laughing over baby parts “mixed up in a bag” before sorting through little arms and legs and lungs and eyeballs.

August 3, 2015, 3:59 PM EDT

Media coverage isn’t just about who writes the news – it’s also about who delivers the news.

Since last week, social media gurus have pumped out tweets about Cecil, the famed African lion shot by an American dentist. But the story of aborted baby parts sorted and dissected in the name of “research” by Planned Parenthood didn’t make the cut on Twitter. The broadcast networks tweeted updates about Cecil at least twice as much as they did about the abortion giant. Newspapers and online outlets followed suit. 

July 31, 2015, 1:03 PM EDT

Imagine if ABC’s news shows covered the videos exposing Planned Parenthood 15 times more than they actually did. But, to ABC executives, a taxpayer-funded abortion giant harvesting aborted baby parts doesn’t warrant the same attention as the shooting of Cecil the Lion.

Since the release of the first Center for Medical Progress video on July 14, ABC covered the story in a mere 46 seconds. In contrast, ABC spent 12 minutes and 14 seconds on the story of Cecil, a famed African lion shot by an American dentist. 

July 30, 2015, 2:49 PM EDT

The broadcast news shows covered Cecil the lion more in one day than they spent on the Planned Parenthood videos in two weeks – and that discrepancy only continues to grow. 

In two days, ABC, NBC and CBS have spent 30 minutes, 1 second on Cecil, a famed African lion shot by an American dentist. But anchors couldn’t spare nearly as much time for the videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts. Since the release of the Center for Medical Progress’ first video two weeks ago, the networks have spent only 11 minutes, 13 seconds on the story. 

July 30, 2015, 2:37 PM EDT

Planned Parenthood video black-out in force.

July 30, 2015, 11:39 AM EDT

The latest video exposing the trafficking of aborted babies by Planned Parenthood showed workers casually laughing over and probing at pieces of a “baby” and “another boy.” 

The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a fourth investigative video July 30 showing Planned Parenthood executive, Dr. Savita Ginde, bartering over baby part pricing while admitting that the chances of providing intact organs are better if a woman “delivers before we get to see them.” The video showed Planned Parenthood workers laughing over “five-star” baby parts while trying not to “smush” them.

July 29, 2015, 2:13 PM EDT

America’s anchors have spoken: the shooting of one lion vastly outweighs the trafficking of baby parts by a taxpayer-funded abortion giant.

In other words, the broadcast news shows spent more time in one day on Cecil the Lion than they did on the Planned Parenthood videos in two weeks.

July 29, 2015, 1:55 PM EDT

Nets censor third abortion video; give 14 minutes to Cecil the Lion.

July 28, 2015, 4:40 PM EDT

Sen. Ted Cruz is calling out the “passionately pro-abortion" media for “hiding” videos exposing Planned Parenthood.

On Tuesday, July 28th, Students for Life of America hosted more than 60 #WomenBetrayed rallies across the country to protest Planned Parenthood selling the body parts of aborted babies. Despite the high temperatures, hundreds showed up for the Washington, D.C. rally, which featured several presidential candidates as speakers, including Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).

July 28, 2015, 4:27 PM EDT

 

Sen. Cruz urges Americans to “simply watch these videos.”

July 28, 2015, 11:38 AM EDT

A horrifying new video shows exactly what Planned Parenthood does with the parts from aborted babies.

The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a third investigative video July 28 showing a former “procurement technician,” Holly O’Donnell, explain how Planned Parenthood would “get a certain percentage” of compensation from her former employer, StemExpress, for harvesting aborted baby parts. From her very first day at a Planned Parenthood clinic, a trainer instructed O’Donnell to pick apart an aborted baby and identify parts, including “a leg” with tweezers.

The video also caught another Planned Parenthood executive saying she wanted payment per baby specimen to see “how much we can get out of it.”

July 28, 2015, 11:14 AM EDT

Graphic detail leaves no doubt about abortion mill's procedures.

July 25, 2015, 10:01 AM EDT

Don’t agree with something? Then discredit it by calling it “fake,” as exemplified by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

During the July 22 Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow said presidential candidate Jeb Bush visited a “fake abortion clinic,” in other words, a crisis pregnancy center. 

July 23, 2015, 4:00 PM EDT

The New York Times favors whistlers – except for those that dare whistle a tune against a tax-payer funded abortion giant.

On Wednesday, the New York Times editorial board slammed “The Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood.” In their piece, the board attempted to discredit the “dishonest” video campaign by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) that revealed the abortion giant’s trafficking of aborted baby parts. But, in the past, the Times has applauded undercover work.