A "Teachable Moment":Setting the Record Straight on Roe.

Just a few weeks after the November 2 elections, the Associated Press reported that in an AP-sponsored poll by Ipsos-Public Affairs 59 percent of respondents said they thought President Bush should nominate Supreme Court justices who would uphold Roe v. Wade, while 31 percent wanted nominees who would overturn Roe.

But don't be alarmed. The poll was a fraud.

The poll question read: "Roe v. Wade made abortion in the first three months of pregnancy legal. Do you think President Bush should nominate Supreme Court justices who would uphold the Roe v. Wade decision, or nominate justices who would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision?"

Ask a phony question, get a phony answer.

Thanks to three decades of dishonest reporting from the mainstream media about abortion, many Americans don't understand that Roe v. Wade made abortion legal through all nine months of pregnancy. The Associated Press, a massive news distribution network, got it stunningly wrong.

The real Roe, as opposed to the fictitious decision, legalized abortion for any reason up to "viability" - - roughly about five and one-half months. But here's the catch: the seven-justice majority required states to allow abortions for "health reasons" even after viability.

Making a terrible decision worse, the Court defined "health" in a companion case (Doe v. Bolton) to include "all factors - - physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age - - relevant to the well-being of the patient."