Richard John Neuhaus writes:

The New York Times regularly serves up a target-rich supply of news and commentary and, as with shooting fish in a barrel, pointing out its gaffs is a sport of which one can quickly tire. Yet from time to time there is an item that makes irresistible the question, “What on earth do these people think they are up to?” Such an item was given prime space on the front page of last Sunday’s “News of the Week in Review.” The story was that the word “abortion” does not appear in the Bible, and that there are different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the Bible passages conventionally cited in support of the prolife cause.

That’s it. That’s the entire story. Who was this story intended to persuade or instruct? Certainly not the typical reader of the Times who, according to the Times’ self-published readership profile, doesn’t give a fig about what the Bible says about abortion or anything else. The rest