[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On 27 June 2016, CNN's breaking news coverage of the Supreme Court striking down Texas's sanitary regulations on abortion clinic clearly slanted towards the pro-abortion side. Jake Tapper trumpeted the "big victory for abortion right supporters," and hinted that pro-lifers were being hypocritical: "All of the, quote/unquote, burdensome rules and regulations that conservatives often complain about would have to be adhered and applied to these abortion clinics."
Dana Bas later played up Hillary Clinton's reaction to the Court decision:
DANA BASH: Going back to what you [Jake Tapper] said earlier about the fact that Bill Clinton used to say 'safe, legal, and rare'—
JAKE TAPPER: Yeah—
BASH: And Hillary Clinton is just saying 'safe' — as I was thinking about it, I think you're right in terms of just how, politically speaking, where the Democratic electorate is — or at least where the Democrat — the Democratic presumptive nominee thinks that the electorate is. You know, back then — you know, twenty, 25 years ago, Democrats were still campaigning hard in states with a lot of socially-conservative Democrats. Not so much anymore — it's a much more divided country. And so, Hillary Clinton, politically speaking, doesn't have to say the 'rare' part. She can just say the 'safe' part, because those are the kinds of voters she's appealing to.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: And she has embraced feminism—
BASH: Yes—
TOOBIN: In a way that Bill Clinton never did; in a way that she didn't eight years ago.