Legal Commentary

CNN Ad Article: Sloppy Or Biased?

Gianna Jessen survived a botched abortion in 1977. Now she is featured in an independent ad criticizing Obama?s four votes against legislation protecting infants, like her, who were accidentally born alive. ?If Barack Obama had his way,? she says, ?I wouldn't be here.?

In its article today about the ad, CNN states that the ad was sponsored by an anti-abortion organization ?founded by Jill Stanek, a columnist for the Web site World Net Daily, who has made controversial statements in the past expressing her opposition of abortion rights.?

Either because of sloppiness or bias, CNN neglected to mention that Stanek is the former nurse whose testimony before Congress is widely credited with bringing the plight of babies born after botched abortions to light. Largely as a result of her compelling testimony Congress passed, with virtually no dissent (it passed the Senate 98-0), even from committed pro-choice legislators, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. It was an identical Illinois version of that act that Obama blocked, claiming that it would have tended to undermine Roe v. Wade.

But I suppose you could say, if you?re CNN, that Stanek ?has made controversial statements in the past.? And she continues to make them.

Full post as published by Discriminations on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).