If Fox News, The Washington Times, and Gateway Pundit are all telling you something is true, there's a high likelihood that what they're telling you it isn't the full truth.

A FoxNews.com article asserted that "[t]he Obama administration is offering incentives to Kenya to approve a controversial new constitution that would legalize abortion for the first time." This was followed by Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft claiming that Obama is “accused of illegally funding a pro-abortion referendum in Kenya,” using citing the highly biased LifeNews.com as his source. (Bonus: Hoft goes on to repeat the discredited claim that Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga is Obama's “cousin.” Hadn't heard that one in a while.) Then, in a July 16 editorial, The Washington Times asserted that the new constitution “explicitly allows a 'trained health professional' to snuff the life of an unborn baby at any stage of a pregnancy.”

As can be expected from this triumvirate, the story they are peddling is largely untrue.

The new Kenyan constitution does not legalize abortion, which is already illegal except to save the life of the mother. According to the Associated Press, what the new constitution does is allow a “trained health professional” to make the determination to allow an abortion when the life or health of the mother is endangered.

To argue that allowing a “trained health professional” to determine if a mother's life or health is sufficiently endangered is the same thing as legalizing elective abortion is absurd.

Overstating one's case in contradiction of the facts, as Fox News, Hoft, and the Times do, doesn't exactly instill confidence that anything these folks have to say is true.