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WashPost Aids ACLU: Catholic Hospital vs. 'Pregnant Woman with Brain Tumor'
By Tim Graham | September 14, 2015 | 1:19 PM EDT

In the run-up to the papal visit to America, The Washington Post keeps pushing stories against allegedly heartless Catholic positions on the life issues. On Monday’s front page, they promoted this story: “A Catholic hospital in Michigan cited religious reasons for refusing to perform a tubal ligation requested by a woman with a brain tumor.” (Emphasis theirs.)

The headline on page A-3 was “Mich. hospital faces ACLU suit: Pregnant woman with brain tumor was denied sterilization surgery.” Post “social change” reporter Sandhya Somashekhar promoted the ACLU’s staunch opposition to Catholic hospitals having anti-feminist hangups about abortion and sterilization. 

‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ ACLU Stops School From Feeding African Orphans
By Matt Philbin | and By Kristine Marsh | December 15, 2014 | 3:47 PM EST

Thank Gaia for the ever-vigilant ACLU! Who else would have discerned the dire threat to civil liberty lurking in a California school’s effort to raise money for starving children in Africa? 

A middle school in San Marcos, Cal., partnered with a local charity, Friends and Family Community Connection (FFCC), to raise money to send meals to children in Tanzania – innocent enough, right? Wrong. It turns out FFCC also worked with Kids Around the World (KATW) to accomplish the same goal. KATW is [cue sinister music] a Christian charity. 

Comedian Lewis Black Joins ACLU Campaign to 'F@&* Voter IDs'
By Randy Hall | October 12, 2014 | 4:11 PM EDT

Hot-tempered comedian Lewis Black has never been shy when it comes to taking on controversial topics, and his latest crusade has paired the foul-mouthed performer with the American Civil Liberties Union in an attempt to “F@&* Voter Suppression,” particularly through requiring voters to have IDs with their picture on them.

In a fake “photo shoot” with Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting rights program, Black declares: “Elected officials shouldn't get to choose who gets to choose elected officials! Look, people marched and fought and died for the right to vote, and they wanna legislate away that sacrifice to stay in power? Not on my watch, baby!”

ACLU Director Says Movie ‘Makes Abortion Funny’
By Katie Yoder | June 9, 2014 | 2:14 PM EDT

That statement should offend both sides: not only those who oppose abortion but also those who abort (after all, if it wasn’t difficult, why the “not in her shoes” mantra?). But not so for the media – abortion is the very definition of “funny,” in The Washington Post’s latest piece. 

The Washington Post recently published American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Legal Director Louise Messing’s article where she gushed, “Finally, a movie that makes abortion funny.” Messing was referring to the abortion romantic “comedy,” “Obvious Child,” which opened June 6 and hits theaters nationwide June 27. As a media favorite, the film, said Cosmo, highlighted how “abortion is a catalyst for a potential romantic relationship” and offered, according to Salon, “two people a shot at true love.”

NPR Boosts NAACP and ACLU's Activism After Court 'Gutted' Voting Rights Act
By Matthew Balan | April 7, 2014 | 5:12 PM EDT

Carrie Johnson's Monday report on NPR's Morning Edition could have been mistaken as an informercial for the left-of-center ACLU and the NAACP's efforts to help "protect minority voting rights," after the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder decision from June 2013. Johnson played up how "a divided Supreme Court gutted part of that law – throwing into chaos a system that had required...states to ask for federal permission before making election changes."

All but one of the correspondent's talking heads during the segment were liberal activists who lamented the Court's decision, but she failed to point out their political ideology or that of the groups they represent. Johnson also singled out one attendee of the organizations' "training session," who attacked the Obama administration from the left:

Dishonest Abortion Activists Attack Hobby Lobby at SCOTUS
By Kristine Marsh | March 25, 2014 | 3:47 PM EDT

What do Cesar Chavez, “raped animals,” Margaret Sanger fans, and Occupy-esque mantras have in common?

They were all present in front of the Supreme Court today. Hundreds of left-wing activists showed up today to attack Hobby Lobby for its objection to the Obama Administration’s HHS Mandate, specifically that the Christian-owned firm pays for abortifacient contraceptives in the employee health insurance plan Obamacare says it must provide.

Abortion or Bust! Pro-Choice Extremism Doomed 10-Point 'Women's Equality Act' in New York; NYTimes Places Story on A16
By Ken Shepherd | June 24, 2013 | 7:13 PM EDT

A stubborn, doctrinaire insistence by hard-line abortion rights advocates that a bill titled the Women's Equality Act must not pass without language further liberalizing the Empire State's abortion laws doomed the bill to failure in the New York State Assembly, the New York Times's Thomas Kaplan reported today. Even so, the Times did its best to shield the abortion lobby -- groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood -- for blame for the death of legislation with "widespread support" that would "strengthen the state’s laws against sexual harassment, human trafficking, domestic violence and salary discrimination."

In his page A16 article article in Monday's Times -- blandly headlined "All-or-Nothing Strategy on Women's Equality Legislation Ends With Nothing" -- reporter Thomas Kaplan noted that:

Liberal Funders Back Journalism Alongside the ACLU, Think Tanks
By Tim Graham | June 6, 2012 | 7:54 AM EDT

California savings-and-loan billionaire and liberal-Democrat philanthropist Marion Sandler died on June 1, and the Washington Post obituary on Wednesday by T. Rees Shapiro underlined once again how the media “establishment” is now funded not just by advertisers, but by Democratic financiers.

Sandler backed the ACLU, the Clintonistas at the Center for American Progress, and investigative reporting partners for the Post and The New York Times:

AP Urges Supreme Court to Give Military Detainees Access to US Courts
By John Stephenson | February 29, 2008 | 6:53 PM EST

There has been plenty of debate over whether military detainees should be put through civilan courts in the U.S.