“When the Supreme Court’s decision undoing Roe v. Wade came down, anti-abortion groups were jubilant – but far from satisfied. Many in the movement have a new target: hormonal birth control. It seems contradictory; doesn’t preventing unwanted pregnancies also prevent abortions? But anti-abortion groups don’t see it that way. They claim that hormonal contraceptives like IUDs and the pill can actually cause abortions.

One prominent group making this claim is Students for Life of America, whose president has said she wants such contraceptives to be illegal. The fast-growing group has built a social media campaign spreading the false idea that hormonal birth control is an abortifacient. Reporter and producer Alaa Mostafa teams up with UC Berkeley journalism and law students to dig into the world of young anti-abortion influencers and how medical misinformation gains traction on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, with far-reaching consequences…“ (Reveal, PRX)

For this project, I reported, scripted, gathered tape, voiced, and edited audio for the first segment in the hour on birth control misinformation. I also coordinated the workflow for the multi-collaborator full hour — including working with UC Berkeley journalism and law students, lecturers, the UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, the Investigative Reporting Program, and with Mother Jones.