CBS's O'Donnell Gives Fluffy Interview to Planned Parenthood CEO

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/06/24/cbss-odonnell-gives-fluffy-interview-planned-parenthood-ceo

Kevin Tober
June 24th, 2022 9:17 PM

CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell was clearly devastated over the Supreme Court’s historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade Friday evening and she made it as clear as she could while still pretending to be an objective journalist. There were numerous moments where she showed her true stripes in the two segments before her softball interview with Alexis McGill Johnson of the baby murder mill Planned Parenthood.

The first moment came during the opening segment when O’Donnell falsely claimed the Supreme Court “ended a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.” In reality, there was never a constitutional right to abortion no matter what the judicial activists on the Supreme Court decided in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided.

After tossing to CBS’s legal correspondent Jan Crawford, and she gave her report on the court’s historic decision, O’Donnell began arguing with her: “Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a separate opinion as well. It has some wondering is same-sex marriage, is contraception next?”

Crawford responded “the court in the majority opinion said no. How could we be any more clear? This case is different. Abortion is different because it involves a human life.” She continued that “the right to contraceptives, the right to same-sex marriage, are not being cast in doubt or threatened by this ruling, the court said. But Justice Thomas wrote that separate opinion saying he thought they could be on the table. But that's one justice. It takes five.”

But that answer wasn’t good enough for O’Donnell because it doesn’t fit her leftist narrative. She responded by asking “what if the states move on same-sex marriage or to block contraception?”

Crawford calmly explained “that would be challenged. It would come right back to the Supreme Court and you would probably have eight justices then--Thomas might be here-- saying, get out of here.”

Later on in the broadcast, O’Donnell sat down with Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson where the two fretted over the demise of Roe v. Wade and panicked that abortion facilities are going to be closing in many conservative pro-life states.

Johnson wailed that the court’s decision “affects people with low incomes, black, brown, indigenous, people of color, folks who already are living at the margins. Those are going to be the people who are most harmed.”

O’Donnell then asked: “how many clinics across America from Planned Parenthood will be closed.” Johnson cried that “every provider, every frontline staff member, the call center staff, the calls that they are getting in from the patients, the tears, that they are-- that they are hearing is absolutely overwhelming.”