Liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has an interesting sense of proportion.
Here he is writing on gun deaths:
Here he is, though, writing on abortion:
Milbank writes about abortion a good bit, and so he probably knows that there are about 1 million to 1.2 million abortions in the U.S. per year. Do the math, and you see about 16,000 to 18,000 babies are aborted per year after 20 weeks of gestation.
So, over that same 7-year period that Milbank used to measure mass shootings, there were well over 100,000 late-term abortions. In other words, for every hundred babies who die in a late-term abortion, one person dies in a mass shooting, but late-term abortion is insignificant, and mass shootings are at an “obscene” level?
Milbank’s piece has other problems, including a factual error about the pro-life bill in question (since corrected), and a mischaracterization of his interview with the pro-life woman he interviewed.
