A NewsBusters study out Thursday afternoon showed that the broadcast networks loved slapping the “extreme” label on Alabama’s pro-life law, and the same for the heartbeat bills being enacted around the country, while completely ignoring New York’s extreme abortion protections. Well, NBC Nightly News broke the drought later that evening by completely embracing New York’s barbarism.

Following a report about the “sweeping challenge to abortion rights in this country” that was “picking up traction,” anchor Lester Holt looked for some good news from correspondent Stephanie Gosk. “What do we know specifically about these states that are trying to move and protect abortion rights?”

Gosk first championed the State of New York which “has already passed a law that protects abortion in the third trimester under certain circumstances.” What Gosk failed to mention was that the law even allowed abortions on what would be the baby’s birthday.

“[B]ut there are ten other states that are looking at proposals to protect abortions. One of them is Massachusetts where the legislation proposes removing certain obstacles and expanding access,” she further assured him.

Actually, as Gosk began her report, she huffed about how “with the ink barely dry on Alabama's new abortion law, the strictest in the nation, the movement to push anti-abortion legislation in other states is gathering steam.” Of course, the supporters of such laws weren’t considered “pro-life” by the network. Thursday’s edition of ABC’s World News Tonight called them the “anti-abortion community.”

To Gosk’s credit, she did speak with people who called themselves “pro-life.” “It safe to come out and say I want to be a voice for the unborn. And I think we're just seeing more and more people stepping out and doing that,” one woman told her.

But Gosk also touted those sharing their stories supporting the killing of their unborn children:

BUSY PHILIPPS: Maybe you're sitting there thinking I don't know a woman that would have an abortion, well, you know me. GOSK: Actress Busy Phillips revealing she had an abortion at 15. PHILLIPS: I'm telling you this because I'm genuinely really scared for women. GOSK: Now, thousands of women are sharing their own stories with the #YouKnowMe.

After Gosk championed New York, White House correspondent Kristen Welker cheered for how the Alabama law was “becoming a rallying cry nationally for 2020 Democrats alarmed by a growing number of state laws restricting abortion.”

Welker highlighted the comments from 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Kamala Harris (CA):

GILLIBRAND: It's nothing short of an attack on women's basic human rights and civil rights. HARRIS: Women's health care is under attack and we will in the stand for it!

Meanwhile, immediately after ABC railed against the passage of pro-life laws, the network told the tragic story of a pregnant teen who was murdered and her “unborn child” stolen from her and thus proving the convenience of labels when pushing a political narrative.

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