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Right-wing media liken Massachusetts law expanding abortion access to Satanism, murder, and “human sacrifice”

Women attending the signing of the law, which will allow more patients to receive care in the Bay State, were called “witches” and “shrieking harpies”

Written by Ben Van Bloem

Research contributions from Monica Rodriguez

Published 08/21/26

Right-wing media figures are melting down over a new Massachusetts law that will widen access to abortion in the state, claiming the law paves the way for “human sacrifice” and comparing the signing ceremony to “a coven of witches celebrating depravity."

In passing the law, Massachusetts joins Washington, D.C., and several other states that have moved to prioritize the judgment of medical professionals about pregnancy and abortion care rather than setting limits based on the length of the pregnancy. Right-wing figures, however, claim without evidence that this will legalize “post-birth abortion,” and that the law was enacted to make it easier to “sell the body parts” of aborted fetuses.

The law prioritizes the judgment of medical professionals, allowing more patients to receive care in-state

Figures in right-wing media have linked the new law to Satan, “human sacrifice,” or otherwise evil influences

Right-wing media attacked the women and providers who championed the legislation

Other figures attacked the law by comparing abortion to infanticide and downplaying potential pregnancy risks

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Right-wing figures are spreading “plandemic” conspiracy theories about the hantavirus

Written by Alex Kaplan

:{Published 05/13/26

As concerns about the spread of hantavirus emerge, right-wing and far-right figures are spreading conspiracy theories on podcasts and social media that the virus came from a lab and may be a new “plandemic” (planned pandemic) created to push vaccines, disrupt upcoming elections, or achieve other nefarious goals.

The conspiracy theories are similar to those spread among the right during the COVID-19 pandemic that harmed efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus and contributed to declining vaccination rates.

Hantavirus concerns arise after outbreak on cruise ship}:

Nevertheless, the World Health Organization has said that “the risk of hantavirus spreading to the general population is ‘absolutely low,’” with the organization’s head of epidemic and pandemic preparedness saying, “This is not the start of an epidemic, this is not the start of a pandemic.”

A hantavirus vaccine is currently in development, though it could be years before it is released.

For instance, David Niño Rodriguez, a podcaster whom The Daily Beast described as “a vocal QAnon supporter,” posted on Truth Social about hantavirus, claiming that “they’re moving into desperate territory” and that the death of late actor Gene Hackman’s wife from the virus “was just the beginning. … Here we go again.”

Some were more specific about who they thought was responsible for the spread of the virus — like the World Health Organization — and their alleged nefarious reasons, which include forcing vaccines on people and “rig[ging] elections.”

Sherri Tenpenny, a podcaster with a history of spreading vaccine misinformation, suggested that the WHO may have had a role in the outbreak to help secure a treaty, claiming that “they can’t agree” on “how countries … ensure equitable access to vaccines and treatments,” and questioning if the ship outbreak was a “coincidence.”

On conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ network, host Harrison Smith said, “If I was the bad guy, you know what I would do? I’d really release the hantavirus. I would really have an actually super deadly virus spreading from person to person, and then I would release a real vaccine.”

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From the May 7, 2026, edition of The Alex Jones Network's War Room

“Pepe Deluxe,” whom Vice described as an “influential QAnon promoter,” shared a social media post — which said “LMAO - incoming plandemic” in response to news of WHO’s media briefing on hantavirus — with Pepe Deluxe also writing, “I’m sure they already have a vaccine ready 🙄.”

On another podcast, The Shannon Joy Show, gynecologist James Thorp, who has spread vaccine misinformation, claimed that “this hantavirus event and future events will be used to scare the population into taking the vaccines,” and told viewers, “Don’t ever take a vaccine for the hantavirus.”

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From the May 11, 2026, edition of The Shannon Joy Show, streamed on Rumble

:{Meanwhile, Judy Mikovits, who was featured in Plandemic, spoke with Rodriguez about hantavirus, somehow bringing vaccine boosters into it.

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From a May 8, 2026, video from Ninoscorner.tv, uploaded to Rumble

JUDY MIKOVITS: So, here we are on a — here we are on a — on a cruise ship. Oh, okay. So, you've got — you've — and you're testing now not with an antibody. Take those five people and say, show me an antibody to hantavirus, meaning you've been exposed. Because if you're injected with the virus, that's the only way you can get it.

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DAVID NIÑO RODRIGUEZ (HOST): No. Wait. Hold on. Hold on. If you get — if you're injected with it, it would tell me that the vaccinated are going to be the ones —

MIKOVITS: Correct, and it's the vaccinated from the coronaviruses. The only way you will test positive for an antibody and it is to be injected with the virus. And it would have come from every booster. It would have come from the monkey mouse, cow, pig, from 1993. The last time they tried to play the hanta game was right after my PhD thesis.

A user on the far-right forum previously known as TheDonald wrote that “the best condition for a virus to spread, is an election year.”

And an article on the The Gateway Pundit for a “Contagion Emergency Kit” mused about whether hantavirus was “another plandemic” and a “transparent effort to terrorize Americans and swing the mid-terms against President Trump.”

Some social media users also pointed to a 2022 post with the text “2023: Corona ended 2026: Hantavirus” and claimed the post was proof of a “White Hat exposure operation.” A user on the conspiracy subreddit called the post “predictive programming” and said it “feels like yet another planned out, manufactured ritual.” (Pool mentioned it on his podcast as well.)

Some figures also suggested the hantavirus outbreak was caused by a lab leak in Australia. Podcaster Seth Holehouse said, “Three hundred and twenty-three vials containing deadly viruses go missing from a lab in Australia. … Two vials contain the hantavirus. Imagine that. … So, is this kind of like the precursor? Is this like the Wuhan lab leak?”

Conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 helped drive down COVID vaccination rates and primed people to reject other vaccines as well. This has had other long-term consequences, possibly contributing to declining vaccine rates and outbreaks of measles, which may lead to the U.S. losing its measles elimination status. Recycling the same claims could help further entrench that vaccine hesitancy and erode public trust in health institutions at a time when the Trump administration has already been cutting federal resources for pandemic preparedness.

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  1. ### A coronavirus conspiracy theory film attacking vaccines has racked up millions of views and engagements on YouTube and Facebook

05/07/20 5:33 PM EDT

  1. ### New reporting links skepticism of the vitamin K shot to newborn deaths. Influencers and media figures have been fearmongering about the shot for years.

05/12/26 10:47 AM EDT

  1. ### In 2021, the bond between QAnon and anti-vaxxers grew even stronger

01/12/22

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Right-wing media have long called for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, he's now considering it

Written by Gideon Taaffe & Sage Hodil

Research contributions from Reed McMaster, Jane Lee & Alex Kaplan

Published 10/09/25 MMA

President Donald Trump recently suggested he may be willing to invoke the Insurrection Act as protests continue in Chicago and Portland against Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity and deployment of National Guard troops.

Right-wing media figures have called on Trump to use the law — which allows the military to be used for domestic law enforcement activities — in response to various demonstrations since at least as far back as 2020.

Conservative media figures endorsed using the act to “put down” Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and “restore order” to cities where demonstrations were occurring. Starting in June of this year, right-wing media renewed their support for the act's use over anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, and as similar protests broke out in Chicago and Portland, calls to “invoke” the act in Democratic-run cities grew.

Trump once again says he might invoke the Insurrection Act in Democratic-run cities

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  1. ### As Trump sends the National Guard into US cities, right-wing media celebrate and call protests “an insurrection”

10/08/25 1:26 PM EDT

  1. ### Right-wing streamer calls for arrested protesters to be used for “compelled slave labor”

10/08/25 5:11 PM EDT

  1. ### On Newsmax, Benny Johnson claims Portland “has been conquered by antifa”

10/08/25

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