NBC Runs Story on 'World's Tiniest Surviving Baby,' Fails to Acknowledge Its Impact on Abortion Debate

As ABC 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, where fill-in host Savannah Guthrie reported on the progress of "what doctors are calling the world's tiniest surviving baby, just 8.6 ounces when she was born prematurely at 23 weeks." Guthrie noted that "after five months in intensive care, the little girl, named Saybie, is now healthy, and she's headed home." While NBC deserves credit for running this story, they failed to acknowledge its impact on the abortion debate.  After all, liberal states have sought to expand legalized abortion later and later into pregnancy; New York has actually succeeded in that effort, removing a ban 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." 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.