HBO’s Weekly Comedy Show, Last Week Tonight hosted by John Oliver ran a segment on April 8, 2018 about abortion and pregnancy centers. Though Oliver’s staff reached out to Care Net with a request for information about our affiliated network of 1,100 pregnancy centers, none of the information we provided made it into the segment. Instead, Oliver spent approximately twenty minutes attacking the life-saving and community-transforming work we do.
In Today’s Life Chat, I explain why John Oliver neglected to cite our data and how he violated his own standards of trustworthiness. Check it out below: