[From “French TV Channel Fined $100,000 for Saying Abortion Is World’s Leading Cause of Death”]

A French television channel was fined over $100,000 and forced to apologize after it reported — accurately — that abortion is the world’s leading cause of death[…]
According to The European Conservative

In February 2024, presenter Aymeric Pourbaix, during the Catholic program “En quête d’esprit,” broadcast every Sunday on the conservative channel CNews, showed an infographic on the causes of death, ranking abortion as the leading cause, with 73 million deaths each year worldwide. That translates to 52% of annual deaths, far ahead of cancer (10 million) and smoking (6.2 million)

The journalist’s comments sparked a wave of indignation in the mainstream press, on the grounds that abortion cannot be considered a “cause of death” because the fetus should not be considered a living being

Within days of the broadcast, the Council of State, one of France’s highest courts, asked the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (ARCOM) to investigate CNews over its alleged lack of “pluralism”[…]
The Council of State reasoned that the speaking time of CNews personalities, who are journalists and columnists, should be similarly regulated. In other words, if Pourbaix spent 10 minutes reporting a pro-life story, a pro-abortion spokesperson should be given 10 minutes to argue the opposite. Never mind the fact that CNews, along with another channel, C8, is owned by Catholic businessman Vincent Bolloré, not the state