New York Times Reporting on Abortion Deceptive

I suspect the New York Times does not see the bias in the headline of Kate Zernike’s latest news-page foray into abortion politics: “Late Abortions Rarely Happen, but They Still Dominate Politics.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 0.9 percent of abortions take place after 21 weeks. Combine that with the Guttmacher Institute’s estimate of the total number of abortions — 1,037,000 — and it yields about 9,300 abortions after 21 weeks.

Whether that’s “rare” is a judgment call. Last year, the country saw 23 school-shooting deaths. The Times could run the headline, “School Shooting Deaths Rarely Happen, but They Still Dominate Gun Politics.” How likely is it, do you think, that it will do so?

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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I suspect the New York Times does not see the bias in the headline of Kate Zernike’s latest news-page foray into abortion politics: “Late Abortions Rarely Happen, but They Still Dominate Politics.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 0.9 percent of abortions take place after 21 weeks. Combine that with the Guttmacher Institute’s estimate of the total number of abortions — 1,037,000 — and it yields about 9,300 abortions after 21 weeks.

Whether that’s “rare” is a judgment call. Last year, the country saw 23 school-shooting deaths. The Times could run the headline, “School Shooting Deaths Rarely Happen, but They Still Dominate Gun Politics.” How likely is it, do you think, that it will do so?