July 30, 2013 (News Busters) – For years, MSNBC has made it clear where it stands on the issue of abortion in America: on the side of promoting abortion rights advocates against any restriction or regulation on the taking of unborn life. Unsurprisingly, one of MSNBC’s most fervent abortion activists is Thomas Roberts, who apart from using his daily MSNBC show to promote gay marriage, has taken it upon himself to rail against any abortion safety laws as limiting “choice.”
But on his July 30 program, Roberts took things a step further with Orwellian language designed to avoid the A-word. Clinics were instead “choice providers,” according to Roberts. [See video. MP3 audio here.]
This all happened during Roberts's chat with Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL pro-choice America, on North Carolina's newly-passed abortion clinic regulations, . In response to such new measures, Roberts alarmed viewers that t the new laws would result in only one “clinic in the state for women in North Carolina for seeking out choice.”
Roberts began the segment by falsely claiming that, “North Carolina is now the latest Republican-led state to restrict a woman's access to abortion.” Much like the rest of MSNBC’s abortion segments, Roberts ignored the fact that nothing in the new law prevents an abortion clinic in North Carolina from spending money to meet the new safety standards approved by the North Carolina legislature, but instead frets that, “there is only one that currently meets that benchmark.”
Roberts continued to spew misinformed statements about the North Carolina bill, asking Ilyse Hogue, “How do you respond to that with such a dramatic closure of access to choice providers for women?” Again, Roberts failed to tell his liberal audience that abortion clinics can choose to spend money to meet safety standards or ask their liberal supporters to donate money to provide for safety upgrades, but to claim that this law would “limit access” is false.
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Furthermore, Roberts’ laughable claim that abortion clinics are “choice providers” is absurd. The only choice an abortion clinic facilitates is for a woman to kill her unborn child. Calling an abortion clinic a choice provider is disingenuous and shameful. Of course the NARAL president did not once challenge Roberts’ false statements as she promotes abortion, instead choosing to work in another talking point to slam the Tar Heel State's Republican governor:
Not only did he [Gov. Pat McCrory] break a sacrosanct campaign promise not to restrict choice but he is actually playing politics with women's lives.
Of all the campaign promises that politicians supposedly break, in the eyes of Ilyse Hogue, abortion-related campaign promises are the only ones deemed “sacrosanct.” That's right, it was downright unholy and wicked of McCrory to go back on his word to not sign into law new legislation to restrict abortion and thereby spare unborn children their lives, according to Hogue's logic.
It goes without saying, unfortunately, that Roberts failed to bring on anyone to defend McCrory and pro-life state legislators nor to challenge Hogue's point of view. That's because, when it comes down to it, MSNBC treats its alliance with the pro-abortion Left as sacrosanct.
Reprinted with permission from News Busters