On the night of the debate – when late-term abortions would again be dismissed as a phony issue – NBC Nightly News ran a promotional piece about Colorado late-term abortionist Warren Hern, who has been a radical pro-abortion crank for 50 years.
Lester Holt began: “And tonight we visit one state where women are traveling to obtain a rare and often misunderstood form of the procedure later in pregnancy.” It’s “often misunderstood” when you kill a baby in utero with an injection to the heart and then remove the corpse.
Reporter Dasha Burns promoted abortion in this one-sided piece, focused on the “emotional experience” of women seeking abortions:
BURNS: Dr. Hern says his clinic doesn’t perform abortions in the eighth or ninth month and they’re extraordinarily rare across the country. Just one percent of abortions are performed after 21 weeks….
