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Important Essay: "Kermit Gosnell and the Logic of Pro-Choice"

With Gosnell convicted of first degree murder in three of four cases and of 21 late term illegal abortions, we have an opportunity to educate many people who are in the "middle of the road" on this issue. At least one reporter covering the trial has reversed his pro-choice position, and Kirsten Powers (one of the first columnists to publicize the Gosnell trial) appears to have also.

This column from The Public Discourse is a good place for us to start. It takes about ten minutes to read; some excerpts below the link.

Kermit Gosnell has been the equivalent of the American slave-dealer—someone who has done work rendered absolutely necessary by the twisted laws of his regime, but who has nevertheless been ignored or regarded with unease, and even repulsion, by his fellow citizens.

Who but the abortionist is the slave-dealer today? On whom does the traffic in abortions entirely depend? Who else gives practical effect to the “right to choose” an abortion proclaimed in Roe v. Wade?

But our own social customs are not so different from what Lincoln saw in the antebellum South. We “shrink from the snaky contact” with the abortion provider, and even people who call themselves “pro-choice” avert their eyes from the grisly reality of what it means, in practice, to exercise the “right to choose.”

Barack Obama, on April 26, was the first sitting president of the United States to give a public address to a convention of the slave-dealers of our age. That morning he gave a twelve-minute speech to the annual conference of Planned Parenthood, an organization responsible for more abortions than any other provider in the country.

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There is a limit even to Obama’s audacity, though. The president mentioned the “right to choose” four times in his brief speech, but somehow this transitive verb never took an object. Choose what? He never uttered the word “abortion,” though it was plain that the entire speech was about the centrality of abortion to the president’s notion of women’s “health.” Is there any other constitutional right, real or invented, that does not go by its true name when its defenders speak of it?

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No, Gosnell is the “slave-dealer” par excellence because, even if he had run the cleanest, brightest, most professional clinic in the country, he was simply following out the remorseless logic of the abortion regime installed forty years ago by the Supreme Court.

Women came to him for the very latest of late-term abortions, and he made sure their children were dead. Whether he accomplished their deaths in utero or ex utero—before or after their births—didn’t really matter to Gosnell. And, as we have heard from Planned Parenthood officials, from then-Illinois state senator Barack Obama, and from “pro-choice” politicians like Senator Barbara Boxer, it doesn’t matter to them, either.

The remorseless logic. Hit the link above and read the entire essay.

 

 

FOX News has rescheduled it's special on the Philadelphia abortionist Gosnell murder trial

See No Evil – The Kermit Gosnell Murders will air at 9 p.m. this Friday, May 3, on FNC. It had previously been scheduled for Sunday evening.

The hour-long program will be by far the most in-depth coverage the trial has received on any national broadcast outlet. The only program of comparable length, 3801 Lancaster, has been restricted to an internet audience.

That is apparently the way some in the mainstream media like it. Joseph Slobodzian of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who has covered the Gosnell trial from inside the courtroom from the beginning, rolled his eyes when Anderson Cooper allowed writer/director David Altrogge to give the website to his CNN audience.

Live Action's Lila Rose vs. pro-abortion Tamara Holder on Hannity

Here is Live Action's youtube channel with all the complete videos.

Holder is one of the "legal contributors" on FOX news. "Fair and Balanced" as we are, you be the judge of who comes across better.

 

Rep. Marsha Blackburn and other Congress members, on lack of media coverage of abortionist Gosnell murder trial.

A six week trial, with virtual major media blackout of coverage.

 

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 -

 

India: Priest Urges religous leaders to "save" baby girls

The priest, who is based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s commercial capital, noted that the child sex ratio in the state is 883 females to 1,000 males as against the national ratio of 920 to 1,000.

Despite efforts to address this imbalance, Indian society continues to prefer boys to girls, he said. And this leads to numerous abortions of girls. In Hindu religious practice, a son often has the responsibility of performing the last rites for family members. While sons inherit family wealth, girls are considered a burden as they need to be married off with dowries.