After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, it jeopardized the future of in vitro fertilization (IVF). NBC Nightly News reported on the fallout. The report included “women we spoke to” who “were in full support of IVF” at the conservative conference bastion of MAGA extremism known as CPAC.
In its report, NBC interviewed only one woman, Bancroft, who was identified in a chyron as “Doylestown, Pennsylvania resident.” Bancroft told NBC she found it “disturbing” that IVF is threatened, even though she is pro-life.
We can thank Media Matters for fully identifying Bancroft when NBC did not. The omission is all the more glaring given that NBC News covered Bancroft’s 2022 sentencing, Media Matters pointed out:
A Jan. 6 Capitol rioter who recorded herself saying that they were looking for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “to shoot her in the frickin’ brain” was sentenced Thursday to 60 days in prison, according to officials.
The attorney for Dawn Bancroft, 59, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, asked for a fine only but a federal judge in Washington sentenced her to the 60 days in prison that prosecutors sought, according to court records.
Bancroft may well be a typical example of a CPAC attendee but that’s all the more reason that NBC should have made it clear just how extreme she is. That’s especially true when a “pro life” woman has been convicted for threatening to murder the speaker of the House of Representatives.
