Like most pro-abortionists McDonough looks at clear-cut evidence and if it doesn’t support her more-abortions agenda, she minimizes what it says and then misrepresents what follows from it.
Abortion Activist is Upset That Premature Babies Like This One Survive More Often
This has a tremendous couple of weeks for the Pro-Life Movement, capped off by the 242-184 House vote in support of The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36). This followed last week’s study in the New England Journal of Medicine that documented both that tiny preemies can survive if “actively” treated and that for unacceptable reasons some hospitals were only offering comfort care to babies born at 22 weeks.
I had missed that last Friday Katie McDonough (writing at Salon) was already drawing the predictable pro-abortion conclusion: that pro-lifers would use the NEJM study of nearly 5,000 babies born before 27 weeks to make an “even uglier” assault “on reproductive freedom.”
Or as the subhead so subtly put it, “A new study on the survival rate among extremely premature babies may feed the GOP’s frenzy to criminalize abortion.”
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