As much as liberals decry major corporations that act as if they’re above the law, there’s always quiet when the subject is Planned Parenthood, America’s number one corporate provider of abortions. During its 2005-2006 fiscal year [1], the Planned Parenthood Federation of America performed a record 264,943 abortions, reported a tidy profit of $55.8 million – and received a record high in taxpayer funding of $305.3 million.

This is one corporation the media hold in the highest regard. They’re not "merchants of death." That would be the tobacco companies, or gun manufacturers, or hamburger joints. These are the heroic "providers" of "a woman’s right to choose."

They’re also sleazy in their business practices. In Aurora, Illinois, Planned Parenthood planned to build the biggest abortion clinic in the country, but they lied by omission to the city. Throughout the construction process, the McDonald’s of the abortion industry applied for permits by listing the owner as "Gemini Office Development," not as Planned Parenthood.

ABC News to the rescue! Barbara Pinto filed a report on the September 19 "World News," suggesting black was white. "Planned Parenthood denies they've deceived anyone," she stated, adding that their spokesman in Chicago said they were "entirely truthful." Pinto proceeded to blame Aurora’s officials for being dimwitted: "None of the city officials or elected officials were aware that In that GQ article [2], his local Planned Parenthood adversary, Peter Brownlie, was allowed to make the ridiculous claim that, "Planned Parenthood, by its efforts to prevent unintended pregnancies, has prevented more abortions than any anti-abortion group that has ever existed. They talk. We do."

So pro-lifers should applaud Planned Parenthood – for not killing every baby it encounters.

Now comes another ABC News story on its website, with a fresh liberal tilt. ABC’s Emily Friedman [3] began by suggesting Kline was "either an agenda-driven prosecutor operating outside the law or one of the best friends the anti-abortion rights movement has ever had."

Not only are pro-lifers not "pro-life," they’re not even "abortion foes." They’re now – in a news report, remember -- "anti-rights." Friedman unloaded the critical comments of liberals: not just Planned Parenthood’s Brownlie, but Kansas professor Burdett Loomis (whom even she noted was a strategist for the Democratic governor of Kansas in 2004), and Kim Gandy, the boss of the National Organization for Women, who lionized Dr. George Tiller, the champion of hideous third-trimester abortions, as "one of the very few who has the courage to do this kind of work."

A Kline spokesman tried to rebut the claims of "critics," but it was hopeless. The overall tone of the piece was how Kline is not only ruining the "choice" of third-trimester abortions for desperate women, his pro-life agenda is ruining the Republican Party on the plains. ABC’s expert analyst? Professor Loomis the Democrat, who concluded the article: "I think even within the Republican Party, this is a guy who has probably outlived his welcome."

Planned Parenthood is a formidable force in national (and state) politics. One major reason is networks like ABC, news outlets that don’t really care whether this corporation plays by the rules, as long as the abortion assembly line keeps running.