ProPublica is perhaps the nation’s leading purveyor of Potemkin journalism, which entails dressing up political propaganda with neutral-sounding journalistic verbiage to create the impression that you’ve done genuine reporting.

This week, ProPublica, naturally, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in “public service” for “exposing the fatal consequences of abortion bans.”

Now, the first hitch here is that ProPublica proved nothing of the sort. Its abortion stories are perhaps the sloppiest and sleaziest of its catalog, even worse than the string of pitiful smears against Supreme Court justices. In a healthy environment, journalism schools would use them as prime examples of hackery and conjecture.

Even a cursory reading of ProPublica articles on abortion finds that the central contention is false. Take its piece on Amber Thurman.

In August 2022, the 28-year-old North Carolina woman checked herself into a suburban Atlanta hospital emergency room, complaining of severe pain. She was suffering from an infection caused by the remains of twin fetuses she had aborted by pill five days earlier.

The first thing you’ll notice when reading ProPublica’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters is that they fail to offer a single on-the-record source who maintains that abortion laws slowed or stopped doctors from providing medical help for Thurman. Not one.

Indeed, a reader must plow through to the 57th paragraph of the........

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