Wednesday’s PBS News Hour preached pro-abortion propaganda, rejoicing in an Arkansas woman who discarded the shackles of organized religion and converted to abortion support. Sarah Varney was at it once again.
Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a majority of Republicans continue to oppose abortion. But there's been a shift in opinion among many Americans. More Democrats and independents now say abortion should be legal in all or most cases and find it morally acceptable than they did five years ago. And, in some cases, there are even conservatives questioning their own views in response to state bans….
Chelsea Stovall, Mother [off-camera]: So, I wanted three kids, but after going through everything that I went through and the laws the way they are, I don't want to get pregnant again. I would be scared. Once I get pregnant, my life stops mattering….
Stovall sketched out her Christian childhood, in which abortion was "just a taboo subject. My family didn't talk about it. My friends' families didn't talk about it. It was not seen as health care. It was something bad.”
PBS anchor Amna Nawaz: "More Democrats and independents now say abortion should be legal in all or most cases and find it morally acceptable than they did five years ago. And, in some cases, there are even conservatives questioning their own views in response to state bans." pic.twitter.com/lodQ6PfZZJ
— Clay Waters 🇮🇱 (@claywaters44) June 19, 2026
Similarly, husband Thomas Stovall described the Southern Baptist church he grew up in as “very fire and brimstone. It was our way or the highway.” He also had second thoughts later about abortion, after (naturally) overcoming his religion-fueled ignorance.
Thomas Stovall: That was the very first time I ever heard the word abortion, and that was from a preacher. I was like, well, what is it? He was like, oh, it's wrong. It's a sin. And that was the end of it. But I hadn't done my own research. I didn't really know nothing about it. I never thought it would affect me.”
Chelsea Stovall: So when I thought I was pregnant in 2022, I was really excited again. I mean, I'd always wanted three kids....
Sarah Varney: Two months later, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and Arkansas' near-total abortion ban went into effect.
A doctor’s appointment revealed her unborn baby was not going to make it.
Thomas Stovall: It was hard. I still remember her scream. I still hear her scream to this day. It made me question everything, my religion. I completely changed.
Chelsea Stovall went to Illinois to have an abortion and came back putting faith in the idea of abortion as a mere “medical procedure.” The sad story is an example of the admonition that “hard cases make bad law,” but PBS seemed eager to make this exceptional case a reason to embrace abortion in every instance.
Varney: And though she doesn't have problems with Christianity itself, she does take issue with people passing laws and making policies in the name of the church. Chelsea is now part of a group of Arkansans suing the state over its abortion law.
Chelsea Stovall: If more people knew my story, I think that they would understand that abortion is a medical procedure. It is used in a multitude of situations. It's not just used as birth control, which I think a lot of people see it as. I think that that's how I used to see it when I was younger growing up in the church. I carried that view until I needed one.
No pro-life sources were quoted, meaning PBS slipped in a 100% pro-choice position under the cover of a personal story.
By contrast, another PBS show hypocritically fawned over the idea of making policies in church -- at least policies of the left-wing variety. Friday morning’s Amanpour & Co. featured Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), a senior pastor at Martin Luther King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church (a fact Warnock readily reminded viewers of). Interviewer Walter Isaacson praised Warnock’s “great new book,” and egged him on to sermonize about 2026 being akin to the racist Jim Crow era.
Walter Isaacson: ….in your maiden speech in the Senate floor in 2021, you said, we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights, unlike anything we've seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes. That was five years ago. Are you still seeing that in this moment and how?
