An Alabama Democrat fought the passage of a bill this week classifying abortion as a felony by arguing that unwanted children are going to end up getting killed anyway.

"I'm not about to be a male telling a woman what to do with her body," said Alabama State Rep. John Rogers. "Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later. You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later.”

All too predictably, certain newsrooms ignored the story long enough to make it about the reaction from Republicans and conservatives.

“Conservatives seize on Alabama state Dem's abortion comments,” read a headline published by The Hill Wednesday evening. The group’s social media team also tweeted the following headline: “Conservatives rail against Dem state lawmaker who said ‘some kids are unwanted, so you kill them.’”

The Washington Post’s story Thursday holds out for exactly one paragraph before claiming the Democratic lawmaker’s “perplexing words” have “drawn intense pushback from conservatives, who are orchestrating a nationwide push in state houses this legislative session to restrict abortion access and, they hope, force the Supreme Court to reevaluate Roe v. Wade.”

These reports represent The Hill’s and the Post’s first coverage of Rogers’ comments this week recognizing abortion as the killing of "kids." Remember: For most of the national media, the story is never the thing that may reflect poorly on Democratic lawmakers and their allies. The real story is that Republicans and conservatives are reacting to it in any way.

On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled Alabama state House passed the Human Life Protection Act, HB 314, by a vote of 74-3. The bill will make it a felony to perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy except in cases where it is "necessary in order to prevent a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.” The motion, which now goes to the state Senate, passed after Democratic lawmakers stormed out of the chamber in protest. Rogers did not leave, though. He stuck around as part of a filibuster against the bill.

Rogers claimed that the decision to abort is ultimately a "woman's choice." He added that it is a fact that some children are unwanted. Rogers also argued it is sometimes preferable to abort children who may have mental and physical abnormalities.

"Some parents can't handle a child with problems. It could be retarded. It might have no arms and no legs," the lawmaker said, according to the Alabama Political Reporter. Rogers added, “I may bring a bill to force all men to have vasectomies. That would end this whole debate. There would be no more abortions and eventually no more voters.”

There is obviously a lot going on here, the worst of it being Rogers' cold, calculating praise for streamlining the process of offing allegedly unwanted persons. Yet, The Hill’s and the Post's first reaction to his Mengeleian paean to the culture of death is to note that Donald Trump Jr. has some thoughts on the matter. That is how seriously they are taking it. Also, neither newsroom makes any mention of Rogers' reference to aborting “retarded” or deformed children.

But to The Hill’s and the Post’s credit, they at least covered the story. That is more than can be said of competing newsrooms, including the New York Times, CNN, and USA Today. If you want, though, USA Today has an interesting piece on its front page right now about Joe Jonas marrying Sophie Turner in Las Vegas. So, there is at least that.