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ABC had Charles Gibson anchor from Seattle, where he stopped off en route to Alaska for his exclusive interview Thursday with Sarah Palin, the governor and VP nominee. In tribute to her state, ABC closed its newscast with Neal Karlinsky in Denali. He showed us how Iditarod sled-racing huskies stay in training during snowfree summer months. CBS anchor Katie Couric used the publicity given to Palin's five-month-old Trig, an infant with Down syndrome, to profile those pregnant women who undergo amniocentesis to search for congenital fetal defects yet decide not to terminate the pregnancy when the test is positive. The "vast majority" have the abortion, Couric pointed out, with only 5,000 children born annually with the syndrome. However, the minority who continue are offered no counseling, support services, information or advice in the wake of the pre-natal screening.
Couric did not explain why a pro-life woman, who has no intention of terminating a defective pregnancy, would have the amniocentesis in the first place.
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