On Thursday, Alex Wagner -- host of MSNBC's NOW -- along with a panel of fellow "pro-choicers", including NARAL's President Ilyse Hogue, positively reflected on California Governor Jerry Brown's recent signing of an abortion bill that will allow nurse practitioners and certain other non-physicians to perform the procedure during the first trimester of pregnancy. Supporters of the new law expect it to make the procedure safer and more affordable for women.

In a segment cheerfully titled "The War on Choice," featuring a cartoon elephant holding a "Road Closed" sign before the infamous Venus symbol, Wagner and her cohorts went through routine talking points from blaming the Kermit Gosnell atrocities on pro-lifers to labeling the wave of anti-abortion laws recently passed in Texas and Ohio as "discriminatory towards women." Heavy accolades went to Jerry Brown with Ilyse Hogue labeling him as a "beacon of light and sanity" and Karen Finney even invoking the name of God. No figures in the pro-life movement were brought in to comment, nor did anyone mention that Gosnell's conviction hinged upon the murder of two infants, not malpractice towards women.

The segment then shifted into a brief commentary on the upcoming Supreme Court case McCullen v. Coakley where the nine Justices will decide whether or not a Massachusetts law allowing abortion clinics to put up 35-foot buffer zones violates the First Amendment rights of protesters. Wagner and the panel did not express optimism the Supreme Court will rule in their favor.