Press articles on Francis’ extension are plentiful.
Not plentiful enough to have apprised the majority of Catholic FReepers, evidently, or I would have received 28 replies correcting me (not that I ever believed SSPX priests were not able to give valid absolutions).
And I believe there was a good reason for not permitting ordinary priests to absolve the grave sin of abortion, and that reason hasn’t changed, and those confessions probably are not valid. Moral of the story: Ignore everything the old coot says.