This means that while, again, in theory, it’s perfectly fair game to ask politicians hard questions about the tough choices implied by their abortion positions, in practice only pro-life candidates ever get asked hard questions.
For example, as a national candidate, Barack Obama benefited from a veritable media blackout on his votes in favor of infanticide as an Illinois state senator. His explanation for the vote was taken at face value (including by supposedly neutral fact-checkers), even though it was false.
The standard pro-choice line — that it’s all a big mystery when life begins, and therefore (somehow) the government should allow abortion — is left unquestioned by reporters even though it isn’t backed by science. And we all know how much reporters otherwise love to hold politicians’ feet to the fire when it comes to the all-important issue of their scientific literacy.
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