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BUSTED: Networks Ignore New York’s Abortion Law While Scrupulously Dissecting Georgia, Alabama

Paul Bois

In the course of just a few months, abortion laws on the opposite sides of the political spectrum were passed in several states. On the Left, there was New York, which effectively made abortion legal in nearly all circumstances up until birth; on the Right, there were states like Georgia and Alabama — the latter banning abortion entirely with the former banning abortion after doctors detect an unborn child’s heartbeat in the mother’s womb.

According to a new study at Newsbusters, the major networks have collectively “devoted almost an hour (59 minutes, 38 seconds) of coverage (May 7-16)” to the pro-life laws while spending practically zero time on New York’s radical late-term abortion law or the horrific statements from Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam back in January defending infanticide. From the Newsbusters report:

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