The Times editorializes that a group called The Real Truth About Obama should not be allowed to run its ads, which it deems to be filled with “smears” and “lies.” The group, writes the Times, “even employs an Obama-like voice pledging to make taxpayers pay for abortions, help minors conceal abortions from their parents, and legalize late-term abortions.”

Obama told Planned Parenthood in July 2007, “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.” That bill would require taxpayer funding of abortion, eliminate parental-involvement laws, and end restrictions on partial-birth abortion. That’s what the plain language of the act means, and it’s what its leading advocates say it would do. There’s a reason the Times doesn’t try to back up its claim that this organization is lying; it can’t. No wonder it would rather the group be silenced.