CNN spent more than 10 minutes pressing GOP candidates about Planned Parenthood during the previous debate – but moderators couldn’t bear to mention the abortion giant once during Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate.

Not even after Hillary Clinton brought up the topic.

CNN hosted the first Democratic primary debate Tuesday night, Oct. 13, in Las Vegas, Nevada. CNN moderators – Anderson Cooper, Dana Bash, Juan Carlos Lopez and Don Lemon – introduced a range of issues from gun violence to the rallying cry of “Black Lives Matter.” But not once did they hint at the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood’s practice of harvesting aborted baby parts or the organization’s major policy change.

The sole mention of Planned Parenthood came from a candidate, when Bash asked Hillary Clinton about supporting “mandated paid family leave.”

“There are so many people who say, ‘Really, another government program?’ Bash prompted Clinton. “Is that what you’re proposing and at the expense of taxpayer money?”

In her response, Clinton brought up the forbidden debate topic: Planned Parenthood. She replied:

“When people say that, it’s always the Republicans or their sympathizers who say, ‘You can’t have paid leave, you can’t provide health care.’ They don’t mind having big government to interfere with a woman’s right to choose and to try to take down Planned Parenthood. They’re fine with big government when it comes to that. I’m sick of it. You know, we can do these things. We should not be paralyzed by the Republicans and their constant refrain ‘Big government this, big government that’ except for what they want to impose on the American people.”

Read the article “CNN Ignores Planned Parenthood at Dem Debate Even When Hillary Brings It Up” on newsbusters.org.