A Sept. 24 CNSNews.com article by Penny Starr asserts that “A group of civil rights leaders and conservative congressmen held a press conference on Tuesday to announce proposed legislation that would prohibit knowingly performing or financing abortions based on the race or gender of the unborn child.” But Starr quotes no “civil rights leaders” in her article.
Starr’s use of “civil rights leaders” is a presumed reference to Alveda King, whom she describes as a “niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” But King is not a “civil rights leader”; she is (or was) a senior fellow at the conservative Alexis de Tocqueville Institution and an anti-abortion activist.
Starr also uncritically refers to King as “Dr. Alveda King” and “Dr. King”; in fact, it appears her doctorate from Saint Anselm College is honorary.