Someone at CNN apparently has a bone to pick with the unborn

That sort of thing has been going on for years.

What is unusual is seeing a newsroom refer to the unborn as a “special interest” group. That’s a new one for us.

“Sparkling wine, jets, the unborn and other special-interest wins in the tax bill,” read a headline published Thursday by CNN.

The unborn includes all of humanity — all colors, heights, weights, abilities, and disabilities. Everything. We’re familiar with media’s language suggesting unborn persons are not, in fact, persons. But we’ve never heard them referred to as a niche community.

There’s a first time for everything, I guess.

CNN obviously isn’t alone in walking this incredibly awkward language tightrope when it comes to covering the unborn. They’ve just managed somehow to step in it twice this week.

Remember, it was just a few days ago that CNN published a headline that all but claimed unborn persons aren’t humans.

“A Texas church has held its first service since a gunman opened fire, killing 25 people and an unborn child one week ago,” read a headline published on Nov. 12.

CNN spokesman Matt Dornic assured the network’s audience that there was nothing strange about the headline’s language.

“It was an effort to reconcile our news-gathering efforts, which identified the names of 25 victims, with the 26 number released by authorities,” he said. “And also to be specific as possible for our global audience.”

The Texas Department of Public Safety said specifically in its official count that there were “26 victims, including an unborn child.”

You know, a more cynical person would suspect that this preference for calculated, dehumanizing language is part of a larger effort to normalize abortion and allay any feelings of guilt its supporters may feel.

But we’re not that cynical.

Not yet, at least.