But for freelancers who move job to job, working without income security and other protections makes them especially vulnerable to legal attacks. While Cruz is worried about the legal implications a law like this could have on her work going forward, she is supported by Jezebel’s editorial team, legal team, and upper management, which she said are very supportive of their First Amendment rights. “I really don’t know what that will look like, but I have to keep doing this work.” A part of her job includes reporting on clinic closures and where current abortion laws stand in each state, but as the legislation stands, even reporting basic facts about the state of abortion in hostile states could be criminalized.
“It is a target for folks who tell the stories of patients who need to access care, explain how care is access, and the stories of providers and advocates who are helping make sure that happens.”Ĭaitlin Cruz, a senior reporter for Jezebel who covers abortion, said the intentional vagueness, yet extreme punitivity of the legislation particularly worries her. “This is tremendously concerning for us,” Pieklo said. Rewire News Group is a nonprofit, independent newsroom that covers reproductive and sexual health from a pro-reproductive rights perspective. Jessica Mason Pieklo, Rewire News Group’s senior vice president and executive editor, said the legislation is targeting anyone in a reproductive health and access space. While this is just model legislation that has not yet taken effect anywhere, some states like South Carolina have already been considering moving in this direction. Some also worry about how people will be able to receive accurate vital reproductive health information freely. The proposed legislation has caused some abortion reporters to be concerned about the future of abortion journalism and how it would impact their careers.
As Prism Editor-in-Chief Ashton Lattimore detailed in a recent op-ed, journalists would be directly targeted by this legislation, which essentially criminalizes freedom of speech regarding abortion. Wade, the National Right to Life Committee, the nation’s largest anti-abortion organization, released model legislation that would ban abortion and criminalize “aiding or abetting an illegal abortion.” The model legislation would impact anyone in the state who runs a website “that encourages or facilitates efforts to obtain an illegal abortion” or provides “referrals to an illegal abortion provider.” The legislation also includes a RICO – style provision for the use of proceeds from “a pattern of illegal abortion activity.” The penalties for this post- Roe model legislation, which the NRLC wants states across the country to impose, would include criminal and civil penalties for anyone reported to law enforcement. In the days leading up to the overturning of Roe v.
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