(LifeSiteNews) — On April 24, Paige Shiver went on “Good Morning America” to tell the story that has riveted the world of college football. Her years-long affair with the head football coach of the University of Michigan, she said, had been marked by controlling behavior, a power imbalance — and the death of an unborn baby.

Shiver’s relationship with Sherrone Moore began when she was an intern and he was offensive coordinator. Moore was married with young children. The affair, Shiver says, involved Moore engaging in harassment, exploitation, and increasingly desperate attempts to control her when she tried to end the relationship.

In December 2025, Shiver broke up with him and reported the relationship to the university. Moore was promptly fired. Moore allegedly broke into her house, threatened to harm himself with knives in front of her, and accused her of destroying him. Shiver called the cops, and Moore was charged with third-degree home invasion and stalking. This month, Moore was sentenced to 18 months of probation, mental health treatment, and fines.

The case has rocked the college sports world, and her appearance on “Good Morning America” this week, her first major TV appearance, has attracted much attention.

Shiver revealed that she became pregnant during the affair but that her doctors told her to have an abortion because of her genetic Pompe disease, which causes muscle weakness, heart issues, and respiratory failure. According to The Detroit News: “Shiver said through tears and a quivering lip that she wanted to keep the baby, but medical experts told her an abortion would be the healthier decision.”

“He said, ‘You have to do what’s right for your body,’” Shiver said. “Multiple doctors and experts told me that it wouldn’t be right or healthy for me to keep the baby.” When the host asked her if she wanted the baby, she said, “Yes.” Moore, however, conveniently told her that she had to do what was best for her body — that is, get an abortion.

The story of Shiver and Moore’s ill-fated baby is significant because the news coverage reveals, once again, that we know the baby in the womb is a baby. Shiver did not refer to a “fetus” or “clump of cells”; she called her child “the baby.” Left unmentioned is the horrific reality of what not “keeping the baby” meant — her child was brutally killed.

If this had been a TV segment on “abortion rights,” the hosts would have pretended that abortion really isn’t about babies. Because it was a personal story, they said the quiet part out loud.

The mainstream press insists that abortion is an issue of health care — but yet, their instincts for a story reveal that they know it is much, much more than that. If abortion is simply another routine healthcare procedure, then why did CBS, Yahoo Sports, and The Detroit News all put the abortion in their headlines? Why is abortion such a story if it is morally no different from an appendectomy? We know they answer, and even they know the answer: Because abortion is about babies.

Earlier this year, many outlets — including celebrity publications — ran headlines on actress Christina Applegate’s revelation in her newly released memoir that she had had an abortion. Again, the journalists — all of them likely pro-abortion — instinctively recognized that the revelation was news. Applegate, for her part, dropped all of the “pro-choice” language and described abortion in chilling terms.

“I’m f***ing pregnant and I’m killing my child on Thursday. I’m thinking where the f*** can I go to recuperate from murder,” she wrote. At the time, she was starring on Married…With Children. “I can’t have this baby because I have work to do to entertain this f***ing world.” After the abortion on June 13, 1991, she wrote that she felt “pretty OK” and “kind of woozy,” which “gives me no time to realize what I have done.”

Abortion is not about a what. It is about a who. Even the media knows it. That’s why they see an abortion as a newsworthy event; it is why they drop the “pro-choice” rhetoric and refer to a “baby.” Stories like Shiver’s are a “tell.” They know what abortion is — and we know they know.