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n Monday, the Supreme Court denied the Clinton administration’s request to join in arguing the case against Nebraska’s partial-birth abortion ban before the Supreme Court later this month. So, to balance the scales, the Associated Press ran a puff piece on the Nebraska abortionist who is challenging the law.

"Nine years after his home was burned down, Dr. Leroy Carhart is in the middle of another incendiary dispute over abortion." Never mind that there’s no direct connection between the law, which was enacted in 1997 and struck down by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in September of 1998, and the crime mentioned. Although Carhart is given more than enough opportunity to debunk Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg — who is arguing for the state before the Court and has one quote in the wire story — Carhart’s claims that the partial-birth abortion bans cover only one out of 1,800 abortions nationwide are left to stand alone, without any reference to other key facts: There is no mention, for example, that these abortions occur no earlier than the second trimester. No mention of public opinion, or a poll released yesterday that, like many before it, found the majority of Americans (in this case 68 percent) opposing partial-birth abortion.

The AP story ends with a warning from Carhart "I think we’re going to lose this issue eventually — at some point in time, abortion will become illegal in the United States….The population seems to be willing to listen to a very arrogant and vocal minority." It was a clever thing to do the day before the House was scheduled to take up partial-birth abortion again; it saves NARAL the effort.

Complaining about the pro-choice, liberal media is a reliable conservative tic. But reliably, time and again, they prove it to be true. Whether it be Hollywood or the mainstream media, when it comes to rights, abortion trumps all.

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