3801 Lancaster Street

 

Lives were lost at 3801 Lancaster Street: women’s and children’s, both born and unborn

 

By Luis Zaffirini
Once the verdict was in for Kermit Gosnell, Eric Ferrero, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Vice President for Communications, made the following statement:

“The jury has punished Kermit Gosnell for his appalling crimes. This verdict will ensure that no woman is victimized by Kermit Gosnell ever again. This case has made clear that we must have and enforce laws that protect access to safe and legal abortion, and we must reject misguided laws that would limit women’s options and force them to seek treatment from criminals like Kermit Gosnell.”

If your take away from this trial and Gosnell’s multiple murder convictions is that abortions must be made safer, then you are missing the whole point. It isn’t that abortion clinics should be allowed to run free and unregulated—that’s how we got Gosnell–but that lives were lost at 3801 Lancaster Street: women’s and children’s, both born and unborn.

Any caring person who heard the gruesome testimony from the Gosnell trial would not have been able to ignore the details of babies who’d been aborted but born alive and then heinously murdered. And I suspect that for many people hearing about what was done to babies outside the womb would begin to understand why it is also wrong inside the womb. It’s as simple as 2+2=4.
But Kermit Gosnell lives in a world where human life is of little or no value. Note the reports that said he smiled throughout the proceedings and how shocked he seemed to be when the seven women and five men found him guilty of murder.
Perhaps he really did not believe he had done anything wrong. Indeed, his lawyer, Jack McMahon, told reporters today after Gosnell agreed to three life sentences that Gosnell is “far from a monster,” and that Gosnell “believes what he did was not homicide.”
For the sake of humanity and of this country, I hope that neither Gosnell nor McMahon actually believe this.

Some abortion advocates, however, claim to see a silver lining. Keli Goff, herself an abortion proponent, wrote a blog article for The Washington Post today which suggests that the Kermit Gosnell case could serve as “a pivotal turning point and wake-up call in the American reproductive rights movement.” Indeed, the headline suggests, “How Kermit Gosnell can save the abortion-rights movement.” (See www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/05/14/how-kermit-gosnell-can-save-the-abortion-rights-movement.)

Source: NRLC News