hat tip Drudge Report
In the next few weeks, South Dakota lawmakers will vote on a bill intended to make abortion illegal. I don't know anything about the state of politics in South Dakota so this may be just to cause a stir or get attention, but it looks like we'll know in just a matter of weeks.

In the next six weeks, South Dakota lawmakers will decide whether to make abortion a crime.

A bill that would ban abortion in the state will be introduced within the next two days.

The bill will be called the Woman's Health and Life Protection Act. It will ban abortion, but won't prosecute a doctor who performs one to save a woman's life.

Also, the writer uses the term "anti-abortion advocates", instead of "pro-life". Nothing new it happens all the time, but incase you didn't know the media always seem to manage to use "pro-choice" when talking about the other side, and virtually never "pro-abortion". I guess that term is less cuddly huh?

Sure you may find quotes of pro-lifers in articles where they say "pro-abortion" or a christian news publication using the phrase, but it's almost a guarantee that a mainstream publication will use "anti-abortion" any day of the week, but almost never use "pro-abortion". Likewise they'll almost never use "pro-life", but are all too happy to use "pro-choice" for the other side.

Quick Bias Study

Yahoo! News Search: "anti-abortion" 872 articles

Yahoo! News Search: "pro-abortion" 86 articles

Google News Search: "anti-abortion" 1720 articles

Google News Search: "pro-abortion" 438 articles
(Note: Just glancing at the first few pages of the Google/"pro-abortion" search, you'll see that these are mainly conservative groups, and dozens specifically to LifeNews.com. Many others are editorials and blogs and such. So don't be mislead by the Google number (still only about a quarter of the "anti-abortion" article number) which is substantially higher than Yahoo!, because Google's news search just operates differently.

So there are the numbers folks. I'm sure the libs will argue "well, that's not fair.. it's just what the stories are about..." But they know, and you know that's bologna. You can run this study every day if you'd like and reach the same conclusion. I'm sure people with more resources can do much more scientific search, but you're going to find the same thing no matter how you do it.

This is all as things are heating up over the likely confirmation of Judge Alito as the next Supreme Court Justice, and demonstrations from both sides of the aisle yesterday, marking the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Keep your eye peeled for the clever terminology used when referring to different sides of the abortion issue.

Also, Michelle Malkin has the President's proclamation made yesterday, declaring January 22 as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. Read it now if you haven't done so already. It's the Dubya we elected, and I can only imagine the libs heads spinning like tops while they read it.

Stop The ACLU has a good wrap up on this and other abortion related news.

More:
Publius Rendezvous, Barking Moonbat Early Warning System, Michelle Malkin, Stop The ACLU, Verum Serum, Macsmind (graphic image, but great post), Holy Coast

UPDATE: 2/24/06 Michelle Malkin links us to this photo essay from Zombie, of a Walk for Life march and counter-demonstration (Walk for Death?). Obviously these people aren't the media (the topic of this post), but it's an interesting look at the pro-abortion crazies in action.

Reverse Vampyr is commenting on this too.