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Slapping defenders of life with the “anti-abortion [rights]” label, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News were aghast that a newly signed Georgia law banned abortions after a baby’s heartbeat was detected. Decrying how the law “shreds” Roe v. Wade, both news outlets were fearful of the “conservative” Supreme Court upholding such laws.
“With one signature, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp defiantly established one of America's most restrictive abortion rights laws,” CBS correspondent Mark Strassmann grimly declared at the top of his report.
Georgia lawmaker Ed Setzler explained to CBS that the law “established that a child in utero that has a beating heart is a living, distinct person, that it gets full rights under Georgia law.” But that didn’t matter to Strassmann who complained that the law “shreds the standard set in a landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.”
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