Washington Post "red states" correspondent Molly Hennessy Fiske is a more of a red-state-shaming correspondent.
Note the heartless obliviousness on display in this Sunday front-page Washington Post article by Molly Hennessy-Fiske. The headline:
‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
Yes, what a tragedy. If only abortion were readily available in Texas, then ALL of these babies might have died, rather than just some of them. What kind of logic is this? Abortion clinics put the baby corpses in a dumpster.
But it's the sub-headline that gives away the paper's cruel cluelessness [emphasis added]:
"Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care."
That message is driven home in the article's body [emphasis added]:
"Whether there’s a pattern or common link in these tragedies is not clear. But they’re happening in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans — with no exceptions for rape or incest — and one of the highest birth rates. Critics argue that’s no coincidence."
The article reports that some of the abandoned babies had died by the time they were discovered. But many others, including the one featured in the article, are found alive and survive.
It's just another occasion for the red-state reporter to dump on Gov. Greg Abbott -- because restricting health care for illegal immigrants also leads to abandoned babies -- and run leftist commentary without any labels from the "nonprofit Commonwealth Fund" and the "Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project.'"
What is apparently lost on Hennessy-Fiske and WaPo is that if abortion had been freely available, and the mothers had availed themselves of it, every last one of the babies would have died.
So what are the "tragedies" in the eyes of the Washington Post? That some of these babies died -- or that some of them managed to live?
