It’s dangerous to paint with a broad brush. I think we do that too often when we, as conservatives, go after the press for media bias. Many times when I see conservative leaders decry media bias, I ask “was that a biased story, or were you just unprepared for the interview?”

Now that’s not to say media bias isn’t real – everyone knows that the majority of the press comes from a liberal perspective.  Even CNN’s Jake Tapper has admitted that media bias is real, and Mark Leibovich of the New York Times agrees that most of the media is center-left.

One of the most obvious examples of media bias shined through in the last few weeks.

Here’s the situation: You have two high profile state Attorney Generals. Both have clear and distinct ideologies:

Attorney General #1 is a conservative.

Attorney General #2 is a liberal.

As such, they work with and receive donations from organizations that support their ideologies.

When Attorney General #1 is making national news, these ties are reported in the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, etc, etc. When Attorney General #2 is in the news, these ties are conspicuously left out. You get one guess on which one is the conservative…

If you guessed the Attorney General #1, you win!

Attorney General #1 is Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma Attorney General, who is now President Trump’s head of the EPA (a great selection in my opinion). As Oklahoma Attorney General, Pruitt sued the EPA more than a dozen times because, under President Obama, the agency continually issued unlawful regulations on states and businesses.

The coal and gas industries Obama was attempting to regulate were supportive of these lawsuits, and therefore, supported Pruitt. I think most people would agree that it’s noteworthy and good journalism for the media to report on Pruitt’s ties with the oil and gas industry as he’s taking on a job like this. This certainly doesn’t disqualify him, but it’s relevant information.

Meanwhile… in California. Two Attorney Generals have investigated David Daleiden and The Center for Medical Progress. Daleiden is the undercover journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby-body parts.

Yet instead of going after Planned Parenthood for their inhumane business practices, the California AG’s have turned their wrath on Daleiden: first raiding his home, and now pressing charges.

The two California Attorney Generals Kamala Harris (who is now a U.S. Senator) and Xavier Becerra have received tens of thousands of dollars in donations from Planned Parenthood and other backers of the abortion industry.

Yet when this story broke in the Associated Press, this detail was left out. Don’t you think it’s a little relevant that the person pressing charges against Daleiden received campaign contributions from the organization that was embarrassed and exposed by his reporting?

Apparently none of the major media outlets did. Showcasing once again why trust in the media is at an all time low.

Read more:  62% in U.S.: News media has party favorites

Written by Jim Geraghty

The Center for Medical Progress unveiled a new video showcasing conversations with three high-level officials with Planned Parenthood Federation of America: Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Senior Medical Advisor for PPFA; Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Vice President for External Medical Affairs for PPFA; and Deborah VanDerhei, National Director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS) at PPFA.

“We’ve just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural,” says Dr. Westhoff to a prospective fetal organ buyer. “Certainly, everything we provide–oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh.” Westhoff continues, “Obviously, we would have the potential for a huge P.R. issue in doing this,” before offering to introduce the buyers to “national office abortion people” from Planned Parenthood.

“Gonads! Everything we provide is fresh” would be funny if it wasn’t so horrifying and macabre.

Deborah VanDerhei is the National Director for CAPS, an influential committee within Planned Parenthood that drives abortion policy across the organization. VanDerhei refers to payments for fetal tissue as “donation for remuneration,” which carries the connotation of financial reward or benefit without regard for actual expenses. VanDerhei explains, “I have been talking to the executive director of the National Abortion Federation, we’re trying to figure this out as an industry, about how we’re going to manage remuneration, because the headlines would be a disaster.”

No kidding.

This article was originally posted at NationalReview.com.

Do not avert your eyes from the sickening, sanitized savagery that Planned Parenthood and the U.S. government through law and subsidies perpetrates against weak, vulnerable, innocent humans—and then rationalize.

In the 7^th video exposé of Planned Feticide Federation of America and the attendant filthy fetal tissue procurement business, phlebotomist Holly O’Donnell describes the day she participated in the mutilation of an aborted baby, whose stilled heart was jumpstarted by a ghoulish fetal tissue procurement technician (Jessica), who says, “Hey, Holly, come over here. I want you to see something kinda cool. It’s kinda neat.”

O’Donnell recounts how her colleague Jessica demonstrates the neat-o, keen-o Frankensteinian trick of fetal reanimation and subsequent mutilation:

[Jessica] said, ‘Hey, I wanna show you something.’ She has one of her instruments and she just taps its heart, and it starts beating….I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating….It had a face. It wasn’t completely torn up. Its nose was very pronounced. It had eyelids. And its mouth was pronounced. And since the fetus was still intact, she said, ‘Well, this is a really good fetus and we can procure a lot from it. We’re gonna procure brain….So, what you do is go in through the face.’

And she takes the scissors, and she makes a small incision [in the chin] and goes…a little through the mouth….And so, she gave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the face….I remember picking it up finishing going through the rest of the face and Jessica picking up the brain and putting it in the container….It was a male. And I remember picking him up…he was big. And I open the biohazard container….And I put him in…and he got stuck on the lid. His buttocks was (sic) in the air and his two feet were dangling out, and I remember having to pick each one of his feet up and put them in the container.

For the scientifically and morally ignorant among us—including Chris Cuomo—if the “tissue” has a human face, heart, brain, liver, thymus, and DNA, it’s human. Not even the purported “good” that the deaths or body parts of preborn human babies may provide to others justifies their murders and mutilations.

The central issue these videos raise is not government funding of Planned Parenthood. The central issue is the morality of legalized feticide. Although legalized feticide affects women more directly than men, it is neither solely nor centrally a women’s issue. It is centrally a human rights issue. The mutilated bodies of preborn humans contain their fathers’ DNA, and incipient human lives deserve the protection of all citizens—women and men alike. Men should never allow the presumptuous rebukes of feminist harpies intimidate them into self-censorship.

And let’s not forget that every year over half a million tiny, defenseless female humans are aborted. Their lives are extinguished and all their attendant—and subordinate—rights with them.

Columbia University Law School graduate Bethany Jenkins writes, “abortion says, ‘Your life for mine,’ but Jesus says, ‘My life for yours.’” Abortion is hellishly anti-life, anti-truth, anti-love, anti-compassion, anti-justice, anti-mercy, and anti-equality.

Take ACTION:  Please attend one of the Planned Parenthood protests this Saturday, and contact your U.S. senators and representatives urging them to defund Planned Parenthood.  Click here to view all #ProtestPP locations throughout the country.

In the greater Chicago area, our friends at the Pro-Life Action League are organizing a protest at the Planned Parenthood mega-center in Aurora, Illinois. Staff members of the Illinois Family Institute will join the League for this #PPSellsBabyParts protest. Please join us if you are able:

• What: Chicago Area #PPSellsBabyParts Protest
• Where: Planned Parenthood, 3051 E. New York St, Aurora IL (map)
• When: Saturday, August 22 at 9:00 a.m.
• Parking: Park at Our Lady of Mercy Church, 701 S. Eola Rd (map). Shuttles will run from OLM to PP from 8:30-11:00 a.m. Arrive early.

Signs will be provided for all who attend, and a flyer about this latest Planned Parenthood scandal will be distributed to passersby.

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