Liberal media critics seem to blame the liberal media whenever conservatives get a win — or in the case of the Alito draft on abortion, a prospective win. Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan dragged the media as patsies for the pro-lifers under the headline: ” The media fell for ‘pro-life’ rhetoric — and helped create this mess. ”
Sullivan explained that the doctor who delivered her baby boy in Buffalo is also an abortion provider, and his son is the leftist journalist Eyal Press, who is blaming the media. (She recalls how Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian was shot dead in his home by an anti-abortion activist in 1998.) “One of the great successes of the antiabortion movement was to stigmatize a very common medical procedure,” he told me this week, “and to put people who defend abortion rights on the defensive.” And part of that, he thinks, lies in […]
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