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Rush Limbaugh smeared President Obama by linking him with Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia doctor on trial for murder, by reviving the false claim that Obama voted for infanticide while serving in the Illinois State Senate. Gosnell has been charged with eight counts of murder for procedures done under the guise of women’s health services. An expert on reproductive health has explained that the acts alleged to have been committed by Gosnell do not conform with legal abortion procedures.

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Conservative media critics have been adamant this week in accusing news organizations of ignoring the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is charged with killing seven babies and a mother. According to the grand jury report , Gosnell  was running a “house of horrors” in which he performed illegal late-term abortions by delivering live babies who were then killed by his staff, all under unsafe conditions

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Kermit Gosnell, currently on trial for murder, appears to be a monster.

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With the U.S. Senate having voted to take up legislation to strengthen gun laws, which will likely include a bipartisan proposal to expand federal firearms background checks, Media Matters reviews myths the media has promoted about the background check system. How do federal background checks work

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A Philadelphia-area abortion doctor is currently on trial for murder, based on gruesome reports about the illegal techniques that he and his staff used to perform late-term abortions for desperate, low-income women. Dr.

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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly declared victory in the so-called “War on Christmas,” joining Fox’s fight to defend Easter from supposed attacks by “secular progressives.” Previously, O’Reilly claimed there was no “War on Easter,” crediting himself for preventing such a war. O’Reilly Declares Victory In The “War On Christmas,” Shifts His Focus To Easter Bill O’Reilly: “We Won The War On Christmas Battle.” During his Fox News show, Bill O’Reilly declared victory in the supposed “War on Christmas,” before claiming that other Judeo-Christian values were under attack.

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The Washington Post ‘s editorial board has adopted the  right-wing fixation  on the interruption of White House tours while ignoring cuts to critical services in both of its sequester-related editorials since cuts took effect on March 1. The first  lauded  the decrease in federal support for remote, small-town airports while the second  decried  the halted tours on Pennsylvania Avenue — odd priorities for outrage given the devastating effects sequester cuts are having on basic government services like paving roads and caring for seniors, the unemployed, and schoolchildren. In its most recent  editorial , the  Post  described the cancellation of White House tours as “bureaucratic hostage-taking,” and opined that the media backlash against the Obama administration was “proper comeuppance”: The popular tours have been suspended indefinitely as part of the response to the so-called sequester that went into effect March 1, mandating across-the-board spending cuts of $85 billion

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From the March 12 edition of Fox News’ The Five : Previously: UPDATED: 16 Media Myths About Proposals To Strengthen Gun Laws Sorry Rush, Gun Violence Is A Health Care Issue ERIC BOLLING: Check this story out. A town in Georgia has proposed a new law requiring every head of a household to possess a firearm

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Teen pregnancies have fallen to record lows . But according to a new report from Guttmacher Institute that breaks out data by each state, the decline is uneven across the country. New Mexico had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation in 2008 (the latest available data), followed by Mississippi, Texas, Nevada, Arkansas, and Arizona: These states have something in common: They have poor sexual education in schools, and consequently tend to have lower rate of contraception use among teens.

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