Pulitzer Prizes were announced on May 5, and perhaps the committee will regret its decisions, since at least four different controversies have emerged in the days since. Here’s a brief summary of the contested awards and why they’re disputed.
The first controversy has already been discussed in National Review. The “public service” Pulitzer was given to ProPublica for its series titled “Life of the Mother: How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths.” That series was incredibly deceptive, perhaps most noticeably because it blamed pro-life legislation for the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller. In reality, the primary cause of death was complications after abortion-inducing pills. As Kayla Bartsch put it: “The real story here . . . is how the FDA has slowly but surely removed most of the original guardrails concerning the administration of the abortion pill.” For more details, read her recent piece here.
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