NY Times Update

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Last week I told you about the hit piece the NY Times did on the abortion laws in El Salvador and the fact that the entire article was based on false information. The article claimed that Carmen Climaco was sentenced to 30 years for having an illegal abortion when she was actually convicted of strangling her newborn infant. Well, this week the Times has issued a correction, admitting that there were multiple court documents, one of which concluded that her child was carried to term and died after birth. This was the document that ultimately lead to her conviction. The magazine’s editor confessed that, “The Times should have obtained the text of the ruling of the three-judge panel before the article was published, but did not vigorously pursue the document until details of the ruling were brought to the attention of editors in late November.” My guess is that this “vigorous pursuit” did not take place primarily because the MSM will jump at any chance to attack the pro-life mentality to advance the culture of death in our society, and this story of a poor woman, victimized by a country’s “anti-abortion” policy, was just too good to pass up.

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