The report, the fifth annual edition of its kind, has found "areas of progress, regress and, sadly, outright pushback," Julie Burton, the president of the Women's Media Center, wrote in a foreword to the report.

On the political spectrum, abortion may be categorized as a women’s issue. But in U.S. newspapers and wire services, men weigh in more often than women about reproductive rights, according to a new report commissioned by the Women’s Media Center and conducted by the research firm Novetta.