CNN Omits Pro-choice Bent to EMILY's List 'Political Network'

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By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
November 1, 2007 - 18:29 ET

Filing a report on how crucial single female voters are for Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), CNN reporter Carol Costello left out the central, defining aspect of a liberal political action committee hoping to elect Clinton.

Costello's report aired on the November 1 "The Situation Room" about a quarter before 6 p.m. Eastern. Here's how she blandly described EMILY's List over B-roll showing the group's Web site (pictured at right):

Two thousand eight could well be the year of the woman, or rather the single, anxious female. According to new research by EMILY's List, a political network for Democratic women, they might just put Hillary Clinton in the White House.

Yet the very same Web site declares the group to be "the nation's largest grassroots political network" that is "dedicated to building a progressive America by electing pro-choice Democratic women to federal, state, and local offic." Hammering home the point that the abortion issue is THE litmus test for candidate funding, the Web site answers the question "Who is EMILY" by among other things asserting that she's "every woman who’s ever had to defend her right to be pro-choice. She’s every woman who’s ever had to explain her choice not to have a child."


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I'm Pro-Choice, too.

November 1, 2007 - 19:22 ET by StephC

I choose not to do the thing that makes a baby if I don't want a baby. As a consequence of that choice, I will never be faced with the other choice.

At CNN, donating to Emily's

November 1, 2007 - 19:41 ET by Kris

At CNN, donating to Emily's list is probably a requirement for all of its anchorwomen. When you look at the women who work there and listen to their comments and how they slant stories on this issue, it's not hard to figure out where they stand. Costello is one of the worst, and her attitude shouts "pro-choice" every time she opens her mouth. It's an attitude that liberal feminists have. Kiran Chetry comes across the same way, along with Christiane Amanpour and the rest of that ilk.

They're pro-abortion, not pro-choice.

November 1, 2007 - 19:34 ET by NBF

They don't want me talking to a woman about to step into an abortion mill.  Choice my foot. 

 Further, since liberals in editorials increasingly refuse to use "Pro-Life" to describe folks like me, I sure won't be using their "Pro-Choice" distortion to describe them.  They're pro-premeditated murder.

Exactly

November 2, 2007 - 13:12 ET by mattm

Let's give fetuses a choice...

Pretty soon the pro-deathers will abort themselves out of existence.