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Grim: Abortionist joked "This Baby Is Big Enough to Walk Around With Me or Walk Me to the Bus Stop"

This is pretty gruesome - testimony and pictures in the trial of Pennsylvania abortionist Gosnell, who is on trial for seven murders of babies and one woman.

Gosnell, 72, who ran a multi-million dollar abortion business in West Philadelphia, was arrested on Jan. 19, 2011, and his trial started Monday, Mar. 18, 2013. The first-degree murder counts refer to seven late-term aborted babies who were born alive and then killed, their spinal cords cut with scissors.

In testimony on Monday, Adrienne Moton, who used to work for Gosnell at the Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia, said she recalled one baby – “Baby Boy A” – who was aborted  in July 2008. Baby A was so large, Moton took a photo of the child with her cell phone before Gosnell took the baby out of the room.

"I just saw a big baby boy. He had that color, that color that a baby has," Moton said in court. "I just felt he could have had a chance. … He could have been born any day.”

In the grand jury report from Jan. 19, 2011, it states that Baby Boy A was born to a 17-year-old girl who went to Gosnell’s office with her aunt.  Gosnell charged $2,500 for the abortion. An ultrasound conducted by Kareema Cross, who worked for Gosnell, “recorded a gestational age of 29.4 weeks,” according to the report, or about 7.5 months pregnant.

The 17-year-old girl was given the drug Cyotec to induce labor and was also “heavily sedated” over a period of 13 hours. “Eventually she gave birth to a large baby boy” and “Cross estimated that the baby was 18-19 inches long,” reads the report.

It continues: “After the baby was expelled, Cross noticed that he was breathing, though not for long. After about 10 to 20 seconds, while the mother was asleep, ‘the doctor just slit the neck,’ said Cross. Gosnell put the boy’s body in a shoebox. Cross described the baby as so big that his feet and arms hung out over the sides of the container. Cross said that she saw the baby move after his neck was cut, and after the doctor placed it in the shoebox. Gosnell told her, ‘it’s the baby’s reflexes. It’s not really moving.’”

Gosnell is "lawyered up". Of course he can afford it.

Gosnell has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer, Jack McMahon, said the district attorney’s office was engaging in “a prosecutorial lynching” of his client. In the court room on Tuesday, McMahon told the jurors, “This is a targeted, elitist and racist prosecution of a doctor who’s done nothing but give [back] to the poor and the people of West Philadelphia.”

There's more, including three pictures, if you hit the link above.

And here's coverage on FOX -

 

"Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring"

This short essay is from the website Demography is Destiny. China's one child policy, and the rest of the world ... The website allows posting of complete articles, as long as they are credited.

Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring

A couple of articles today about China’s one-child policy.  RT News has reported the staggering figures and cost of the communist regime’s policy over the last 40 years:

“More than 330 million abortions and almost 200 million sterilizations have been performed in China since family-planning policies to limit the population were introduced 40 years ago, the country’s Health Ministry has revealed…Data also revealed that the government has done more than a half-billion birth control procedures, including the mandatory insertion of some 403 million of intra-uterine devices – a practice considered a regular birth control procedure in the West, if chosen voluntarily – the Financial Times reported.”

This is just staggering. But it doesn’t seem as if the one-child policy as a whole is unpopular (after all there are very many exceptions to it!):

“The country has generally supported the one-child policy in the past. Three in four citizens believe that without it, the country’s population would be 30 percent higher at 1.7 billion not 1.3 billion, which would have drained the nation's resources, according to 2008 Pew Research Center survey.”

Which of course another way for saying that those who died did so for the living’s benefit. The crucial point being that the dead didn’t choose to do so. Just like in Carthage, children were thrown unwilling on the fire of the nation’s god: resources, economic growth, convenience. (Not that we should feel smug, most countries in the world do the same thing.) As a matter of fact, at least the Carthaginians were upfront about their child-sacrifice, they used to do it in the open, in public. There was none of this hiding it in suburban streets and then not talking about what happens there (we wouldn’t want to upset anyone would we?...I wonder how upset the aborted child gets?) So why do we look down with horror about the one-child policy? Because it is forced. We cannot bear to see poor women being forced into something they don’t want. Again, the irony is that in every abortion, in China and everywhere else, there is always one party who is unwilling. It’s just that they can’t speak and any photos that there are of the aftermath (like this one of this poor woman and child in China) are not allowed to be shown in the sanitised West because it might “offend” someone. Sorry to go on a bit of a rant, but the horror of the numbers involved has made me angry and bitter. I firmly believe that in future, people will say: “how could such tragedy occur? Why did no-one say anything? Why didn’t anyone do anything?” Just as we ask of Germans during the Nazi regime and the “final solution”.

I’ll leave the moves to end the one-child policy and the demographic trends to next time. I’m off to play with my son. Rant ends.

 

Statement from the Jesuit Superior General on the election of Pope Francis

Statement from the Jesuit Superior General on the Election of Pope Francis

In the name of the Society of Jesus, I give thanks to God for the election of our new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., which opens for the Church a path full of hope.

All of us Jesuits accompany with our prayers our brother and we thank him for his generosity in accepting the responsibility of guiding the Church at this crucial time. The name of "Francis" by which we shall now know him evokes for us the Holy Father's evangelical spirit of closeness to the poor, his identification with simple people, and his commitment to the renewal of the Church. From the very first moment in which he appeared before the people of God, he gave visible witness to his simplicity, his humility, his pastoral experience and his spiritual depth.

"The distinguishing mark of our Society is that it is . . . a companionship . . . bound to the Roman Pontiff by a special bond of love and service." (Complementary Norms, No. 2, § 2) Thus, we share the joy of the whole Church, and at the same time, wish to express our renewed availability to be sent into the vineyard of the Lord, according to the spirit of our special vow of obedience, that so distinctively unites us with the Holy Father (General Congregation 35, Decree 1, No. 17).

P. Adolfo Nicolás S.J.

Superior General

Rome, 14 March 2013

A new Pope! Here are past statements by Pope Francis on various life issues

We gathered these comments from an email Randall Terry sent around and from a couple of other sources, including Pope Francis' new wikipedia entry. We have highlighted a document from the 2007 Latin America Bishops Conference well worth referencing in the future.

ON ABORTION

- In 2007 Cardinal Bergoglio stated, “We aren’t in agreement with the death penalty,” he said, “but in Argentina we have the death penalty. A child conceived by the rape of a mentally ill or retarded woman can be condemned to death.”

In 2007, following Pope Benedict’s meeting with Latin American bishops, the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America produced a joint statement, known as the Aparecida Document; it was presented by Cardinal Bergoglio himself.

APARECIDA DOCUMENT

Paragraph 436: We hope that legislators, heads of government, and health professionals, conscious of the dignity of human life and of the rootedness of the family in our peoples, will defend and protect it from the abominable crimes of abortion and euthanasia; that is their responsibility. Hence, in response to government laws and provisions that are unjust in the light of faith and reason, conscientious objection should be encouraged. We must adhere to “eucharistic coherence,” that is, be conscious that they cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act with deeds or words against the commandments, particularly when abortion, euthanasia, and other grave crimes against life and family are encouraged.  This responsibility weighs particularly over legislators, heads of government, and health professionals.

On the Need for the Church to Evangelize:

"We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick. It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one."
 

On Unwed Mothers

 
"In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who criticize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. And this poor girl who, rather than returning the child to sender, had the courage to carry it into the world, must wander from parish to parish so that it's baptized!"
 

On the Elderly and Infirm:

“Today,” he wrote, “elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society. The right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.”  – Cardinal Bergoglio/Pope Francis

 

Physicians against the New York State abortion expansion bill get some media publicity

Here is the coverage from NBC-

An unnamed coalition, including doctors of different faiths who deliver babies and work with women after abortions, said its opposition to the governor's bill is based on medical experience, not their religious beliefs

A coalition of doctors said Wednesday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's abortion rights bill would hurt women, force many into lifetime bouts of depression and guilt and make late-term abortions more common and more dangerous.

The group's press conference was the first effort outside the state Conservative Party, the Republican Party and the Catholic Conference to oppose Cuomo's proposed Women's Reproductive Health Act.

And here is coverage by channel 10 in Albany - and it's pretty good!

 

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