New study looks at parlance of abortion news coverage; Vinson weighs in

In POLITICO, Furman University’s Danielle Vinson contributed to an article about how local papers treated coverage of abortion in the months after Roe v. Wade was struck down. The research conducted by the news organization claimed local papers were 2.5 times as likely to cover abortion as a political issue, rather than a health care issue. Vinson, a politics and international affairs professor, said there’s a cost to focusing on abortion as a campaign issue, noting that abortion laws represent real policy affecting real people.