I actually think the editors of the New York Times are evil geniuses. By publishing an article that dispassionately lays bare that this aboriton ended two lives, they are desensitizing people to that reality. The Times has given up (mostly) obscuring the fact that a pregnant woman is carrying a life inside her; now the Times is saying, "Abortion ends a human life. So what?"
Hopefully a brazen miscalculation by the NYT. We'll see.