Washington Post reporter Evelyn Nieves (a known liberal quantity) profiles Nancy Keenan — Montana Democrat, lapsed Catholic, and D.C. lobbyist for People for the American Way –in her new role as the leader of NARAL Pro-Choice America. Nieves can’t seem to locate a liberal label anywhere. There are four references to “conservatives,” including an unwieldy use of “the antiabortion conservative religious right” (as opposed to the liberal religiious right?) but apparently NARAL-PCA is just about “reproductive rights for women,” not lifestyle liberalism.

Aside from the labeling disparity, and the light talk of Keenan being considered for excommunication, the weirdest part is the reporter’s biased assumption that “Polls have shown that a majority of Americans favor keeping abortion legal,” but then how do pro-life conservatives keep getting elected? A more accurate report would say polls show a majority of Americans support abortion remaining legal in some form, but a majority of Americans also support more restrictions on abortion.

A less biased reporter would allow someone to note that NARAL-PCA fights any and all abortion restrictions, including partial-birth abortion, including Laci and Conner’s Law, including the notion that infants mistakenly born alive in an abortion have rights. That would seem to imply the label they never use: “pro-abortion.”