Abortion

Salon Writer: Abortion a ‘Medical Procedure,’ Not a ‘Social Issue’
By Tom Johnson | November 8, 2015 | 5:14 PM EST

Many products long not advertised on television now are commonly promoted during ad breaks. Writer Danielle Campoamor would like to add one more type of commercial to that list.

“Why is it that I never see an ad for abortion services?” wondered Campoamor in a Sunday piece. “Why are we willing to use women’s bodies in ads, but rarely see ads that would benefit women’s bodies?...Society has manipulated abortion and the way in which it is viewed, changing it from a medical procedure to an exhausted topic of debate.”

ABC, CBS Ignore Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear New Case on ObamaCare
By Curtis Houck | November 6, 2015 | 8:40 PM EST

On Friday night, two of the three major broadcast networks saw no interest in telling their viewers that the Supreme Court of the United States had decided to accept another major case on the future of ObamaCare as the high court will hear arguments pertaining to the law’s contraception mandate. Surprisingly, NBC Nightly News not only covered it, but offered a full, one-minute-and-21-second report from Justice correspondent Pete Williams. 

In Softball Interview, Andrea Mitchell Urges HHS Secretary to Hit Ben Carson on Abortion
By Kyle Drennen | November 3, 2015 | 4:04 PM EST

In a friendly exchange with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on Tuesday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell tried to tee up the Obama administration cabinet official to slam Republican presidential frontrunner Ben Carson on abortion: “...a pediatric neurologist who does not get involved with care for women's reproductive systems....says that life begins with conception, no exceptions for the life of the mother unless someone can persuade him, and no exceptions for rape and incest.”

Was That Bernie Blasting Corporate Welfare? Nope. Koch.
By Mark Finkelstein | November 3, 2015 | 9:50 AM EST

Who said it? "Get rid of all this corporatism, this corporate welfare . . . I would love to have the government stop this corporate welfare--that's what I want . . . This is a huge racket that's wrecking the country." 

Did you guess Bernie Sanders? Probably not because you read the headline. Yet no one could be blamed for thinking it was Sanders. But indeed, it was Charles Koch, who said it in an interview with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that aired on today's Morning Joe. Charles Koch--one of the infamous Koch brothers that the MSM and Dems love to demonize as the epitome of greedy capitalists, the pair that Harry Reid accused of "dishonesty" and being "un-American." 

Bernie Sanders: Abortion Is 'Choice' But Death Penalty is 'Murder'
By Mark Finkelstein | November 1, 2015 | 11:12 AM EST

I took it for granted that a leftist like Bernie Sanders would be opposed to the death penalty. Still, I was truly shocked to see Sanders—not in some throwaway comment on the campaign trail but in prepared remarks on the Senate floor—flatly call the death penalty "murder." On his MSNBC show this morning, Al Sharpton played the clip to illustrate how Sanders is working to differentiate his policy positions from those of Hillary Clinton, who says she supports the death penalty in "rare" cases.

Question: how can we begin to explain the moral compass of liberals like Sanders who call imposing the death penalty on adults duly convicted of heinous crimes "murder," but refer to the killing of innocent, unborn babies as "choice" or other grotesque euphemisms like "women's health?"

Surprise: CNN Touts Down Syndrome Model 'Giving Hope To Others With Disabilities'
By Matthew Balan | October 31, 2015 | 1:11 PM EDT

CNN refreshingly spotlighted a teen model with Down syndrome on Wednesday's New Day. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported that 18-year-old Madeline Stuart's "modeling career is taking off. She walked the runway during Europe Fashion Week this fall, and won a contract to be the face of lipstick company Glossigirl — all of which her mom says is giving hope to others with disabilities." Down syndrome people definitely could use all the hope they can get, as the sheer majority of babies with the genetic condition are aborted before they can draw their first birth.

Debate Moderator Quintanilla Shrugs Off China’s Barbaric One-Child Policy: ‘It Worked’
By Kristine Marsh | October 29, 2015 | 1:06 PM EDT

The questions CNBC gave GOP presidential candidates last night weren’t the last stupid things we’d hear coming from the moderators.

Fresh off the GOP-bashing debate high, CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla went on Twitter Thursday morning to tweet out a nonchalant tweet highlighting the effectiveness of communist China’s (now former) one-child only policy.

 
Latest CMP Video Confirms That PP Fetal Tissue Harvesting Has Been More Widespread Than It Has Admitted
By Tom Blumer | October 27, 2015 | 11:38 PM EDT

Earlier today, Katie Yoder at NewsBusters posted and described the latest video from the Center for Medical Progress on Planned Parenthood's late-term abortion business and its related ghoulish work in harvesting fetal tissue from abortions for research.

Yoder's work and that CMP video caused me to remember how the Associated Press wrote up Planned Parenthood's announcement that it would cease taking compensation for fetal tissue harvesting on October 13.

Lena Dunham's Halloween Costume: Planned Parenthood Abortion 'Doctor'
By Randy Hall | October 27, 2015 | 6:18 PM EDT

Have you decided what outfit you're going to wear on Halloween? Well, liberal actress and comedienne Lena Dunham has already made her choice and announced on Tuesday in her Lenny Letter email newsletter that she's going to dress up on Saturday, October 31, “as something newsy, sexy, and cool: a Planned Parenthood doctor!”

“The most successful Halloween costumes are classic but topical, sexy but funny, not too ugly and not too obscure, perfect conversation starters and ideal photo-ops,” Dunham wrote while explaining her choice for this year's outfit.

Liberal Media Celebrate 'Artisanal Hagiography' of 'Notorious RBG' -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Tim Graham | October 27, 2015 | 4:59 PM EDT

Just as the liberal media greet Antonin Scalia as some sort of Supreme Court supervillain, they lionize Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a superhero. A gushy new book spinning off of the Internet meme of the “Notorious RBG” is making a splash in the liberal media. The New York Times hailed it as “an artisanal hagiography, a frank and admiring piece of fan nonfiction.” On Monday night’s All Things Considered, NPR court reporter Nina Totenberg filed a completely one-sided promotional segment on the liberal “fan nonfiction.”

Chris Hayes Slips Up, Lists Abortion Among 'Touchstones of Human Evil'
By Matthew Balan | October 27, 2015 | 3:13 PM EDT

Chris Hayes made an inadvertent admission about the morality of abortion on his All In program on MSNBC on Monday. Hayes contended that in the case of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, "It's very hard to get through an interview in which he doesn't compare something either to the Third Reich and Hitler or abortion, right? — the sort of, like, touchstones of human evil." The liberal host later claimed that he "meant slavery, clearly," after someone pointed out the line to him on Twitter.

Amanda Marcotte: Paul Ryan Thinks Family Life Should Be ‘Reserved For the Elite and the Rest of Us Can Go Hang’
By Tom Johnson | October 24, 2015 | 9:49 PM EDT

After Paul Ryan vowed that he wouldn’t reduce time spent with his family even if he became Speaker of the House, quite a few liberals accused the Wisconsin congressman of hypocrisy given that he has, in the words of one feminist site, “spent much of his political career fighting laws that promote realistic work-life balance for parents.”

Lefty pundit Marcotte believes that Ryan is even worse than a hypocrite. In a Thursday column for Salon, Marcotte asserted that Ryan’s “family time” stand “is a perfect distillation of the Ayn Rand-constructed worldview he has, where all the goodies are reserved for the elite and the rest of us can go hang…Increasingly, the Republican worldview is one where even basic things like love, connection, and other basic human needs are being reclassified as privileges that should only be available to the wealthy.”