CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell was clearly devastated over the Supreme Court’s historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade Friday evening and she made it as clear as she could while still pretending to be an objective journalist. There were numerous moments where she showed her true stripes in the two segments before her softball interview with Alexis McGill Johnson of the baby murder mill Planned Parenthood.
The first moment came during the opening segment when O’Donnell falsely claimed the Supreme Court “ended a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.” In reality, there was never a constitutional right to abortion no matter what the judicial activists on the Supreme Court decided in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided.
After tossing to CBS’s legal correspondent Jan Crawford, and she gave her report on the court’s historic decision, O’Donnell began arguing with her: “Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a separate opinion as well. It has some wondering is same-sex marriage, is contraception next?”
CBS's Jan Crawford shot down Norah O'Donnell's baseless fears that the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe will open the door to banning contraceptives and same-sex marriage. pic.twitter.com/UVLMcOBq6k
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Crawford responded “the court in the majority opinion said no. How could we be any more clear? This case is different. Abortion is different because it involves a human life.” She continued that “the right to contraceptives, the right to same-sex marriage, are not being cast in doubt or threatened by this ruling, the court said. But Justice Thomas wrote that separate opinion saying he thought they could be on the table. But that's one justice. It takes five.”
But that answer wasn’t good enough for O’Donnell because it doesn’t fit her leftist narrative. She responded by asking “what if the states move on same-sex marriage or to block contraception?”
Crawford calmly explained “that would be challenged. It would come right back to the Supreme Court and you would probably have eight justices then--Thomas might be here-- saying, get out of here.”
Later on in the broadcast, O’Donnell sat down with Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson where the two fretted over the demise of Roe v. Wade and panicked that abortion facilities are going to be closing in many conservative pro-life states.
Johnson wailed that the court’s decision “affects people with low incomes, black, brown, indigenous, people of color, folks who already are living at the margins. Those are going to be the people who are most harmed.”
O’Donnell then asked: “how many clinics across America from Planned Parenthood will be closed.” Johnson cried that “every provider, every frontline staff member, the call center staff, the calls that they are getting in from the patients, the tears, that they are-- that they are hearing is absolutely overwhelming.”
Later on, in the interview, was this histrionic back and forth (click expand to read):
O’DONNELL: Justice Alito and the other conservatives wrote in their majority opinion that this will not affect contraceptive rights. In the opinion he said abortion rights are inherently different from rights involving contraception and same-sex relationships. Is that how you see it?
JOHNSON: No, not at all. We see state after state introducing incredibly extreme and harmful legislation related to criminalizing I.V.F., criminalizing I.U.D.S, criminalizing emergency contraception.
O’DONNELL: Wait, so you're saying you already see some state legislatures?
JOHNSON: They're introducing these kinds of laws. Yes.
O’DONNELL: To make it criminal to travel to another state to get an abortion?
JOHNSON: Yes.
O’DONNELL: What would be the effect of that?
JOHNSON: We're seeing people spying on each other, neighbors spying on each other, all for to deny people to make decisions about their own bodies. The increased criminalization that can happen. And, again, I'm not sure how they will enforce these kinds of laws, but these are the kind of things that are being contemplated and we have to be very alarmed about those.
Nowhere in the thirty-minute newscast was an interview aired with anyone from a pro-life clinic. O’Donnell seems to believe all women are pro-abortion. CBS has no interest in giving both sides of this debate equal time.
This abortion-loving segment on CBS was made possible by Ensure. Their information is linked.
To read the transcript click “expand”:
CBS Evening News
6/24/2022
6:32:11 p.m. EasternNORAH O’DONNELL: We're outside the Supreme Court after the landmark decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.
(...)
6:36:11 p.m. Eastern
O’DONNELL: And Jan is with me here with more. So, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a separate opinion as well. It has some wondering is same-sex marriage, is contraception next?
JAN CRAWFORD: Well, I mean, that's right, because those are grounded in some of the same rights. But the court in the majority opinion said no. How could we be any more clear? This case is different. Abortion is different because it involves a human life. Those cases, the right to contraceptives, the right to same-sex marriage, are not being cast in doubt or threatened by this ruling, the court said. But Justice Thomas wrote that separate opinion saying he thought they could be on the table. But that's one justice. It takes five.
O’DONNELL: But what if the states move on same-sex marriage or to block contraception?
CRAWFORD: Well, then that would be challenged. It would come right back to the Supreme Court and you would probably have eight justices then--Thomas might be here-- saying, "Get out of here."
(...)
6:45:00 p.m. Eastern
O’DONNELL: Earlier, we spoke with Alexis Mcgill Johnson. She's the president of Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of abortions in America. The organization also provides preventive care, like birth control, testing, and treatment for STDS and cancer screening. We begin by asking her which women will be most impacted by today's decision.
ALEXIS MCGILL JOHNSON: It affects people with low incomes, black, brown, indigenous, people of color, folks who already are living at the margins. Those are going to be the people who are most harmed.
O’DONNELL: How many clinics across America from Planned Parenthood will be closed?
JOHNSON: What I can tell you right now is happening is that affiliates, health centers are fighting to get every single patient in that they can see right now before the state issues an injunction. What I can tell you is the devastation that every provider, every frontline staff member, the call center staff, the calls that they are getting in from the patients, the tears, that they are-- that they are hearing is absolutely overwhelming.
O’DONNELL: How many women do you think will be denied abortion services and will have to perhaps try and travel to another state?
JOHNSON: Hundreds of thousands of women will be living in states that will be seeking access to abortion. They won't be able to get the care in the state that they need.
O’DONNELL: Justice Alito and the other conservatives wrote in their majority opinion that this will not affect contraceptive rights. In the opinion he said abortion rights are inherently different from rights involving contraception and same-sex relationships. Is that how you see it?
JOHNSON: No, not at all. We see state after state introducing incredibly extreme and harmful legislation related to criminalizing I.V.F., criminalizing I.U.D.S, criminalizing emergency contraception.
O’DONNELL: Wait, so you're saying you already see some state legislatures?
JOHNSON: They're introducing these kinds of laws. Yes.
O’DONNELL: To make it criminal to travel to another state to get an abortion?
JOHNSON: Yes.
O’DONNELL: What would be the effect of that?
JOHNSON: We're seeing people spying on each other, neighbors spying on each other, all for to deny people to make decisions about their own bodies. The increased criminalization that can happen. And, again, I'm not sure how they will enforce these kinds of laws, but these are the kind of things that are being contemplated and we have to be very alarmed about those.
