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NBC Fails to Acknowledge Irony of ‘World’s Tiniest Surviving Baby’ on Abortion Debate

May 31, 2019

By Ryan Foley

As ABC’s World News Tonight aired a story sympathetic to the pro-abortion movement, NBC Nightly News actually devoted 20 seconds to an inspiring story out of San Diego. Fill-in anchor Savannah Guthrie reported on the progress of “what doctors are calling the world’s tiniest surviving baby,” so while NBC deserves credit for running this story, they failed to acknowledge its impact on the abortion debate.

Guthrie noted that “the world’s tiniest surviving baby” was “just 8.6 ounces when she was born prematurely at 23 weeks.” She added that “after five months in intensive care, the little girl, named Saybie, is now healthy, and she’s headed home.” The idea that a healthy baby born at just 23 weeks gestation can survive flies in the face of the pro-abortion movement’s talking points.

After all, liberal states have sought to expand the legalization on abortion later and later into pregnancy; New York has actually succeeded in that effort, removing restrictions on third-trimester abortions. The birth of Saybie occurred during the second trimester of pregnancy.

As of right now, more than half of the states allow abortions after 24 weeks or the “point of viability,” according to USA Today. Pro-abortion activists are going to have a harder time arguing that babies born earlier than 24 weeks are not human lives in the wake of Saybie’s birth but NBC did not point that out.

A more in-depth report on Saybie’s story aired Thursday morning in ABC’s pre-dawn program World News Now. Perhaps unintentionally, the segment refuted one of the most common pro-abortion talking points. Reporter Will Ganss noted that doctors said “they needed to perform an emergency C-section,” adding that “the baby wasn’t growing and mom’s life was in immediate danger.”

Keep in mind that abortion is often justified if the “mom’s life was in immediate danger.” According to USA Today, more than a dozen states with stricter abortion laws allow exceptions in the event of a “threat to a woman’s health” or a “threat to a woman’s life.”

The ABC report also mentioned that after “working around the clock for five months,” Saybie was released from the hospital as a “healthy five-pound baby.” While Ganss and the anchors were impressed by the story of this “miracle baby,” they failed to acknowledge how the story flew directly in the face of the abortion debate, much like NBC.

Saybie’s success story raises a lot of questions that the pro-abortion movement, which has attempted to legalize abortion later and later into presidency, should have to answer. Fortunately for them, the media have shown no interest in asking those questions so far.

Editor’s note. This appeared at Newsbusters and is reposted with permission.

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