Justice is Supposed to be Blind

 

Nine members of Gosnell Jury say they are “pro-choice”

By Dave Andrusko
We will have a number of posts today on the guilty verdicts handed down yesterday by a Philadelphia jury against abortionist Kermit Gosnell. The most significant, of course, are the three first-degree murder convictions for babies identified as “A,” “C“, and “D” and the involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of Karnamaya Mongar who died of an overdose of Demerol administered by Gosnell’s untrained, unlicensed staff.
No one is surprised that in early online stories, the New York Times included this paragraph (kudos to the Washington Free Beacon for spotting the linguistic atrocity).

“The verdict came after a five-week trial in which the prosecution and the defense battled over whether the fetuses Dr. Gosnell was charged with killing were alive when they were removed from their mothers.”

Last month, after the prosecution rested its cases, and three other first-degree charges were dismissed by Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart, six times the Times referred to “fetus” or “fetuses,” as the Free Beacon noted. So old habits die hard.
Equally illuminating but in a far different way was a report on NBC 10 in Philadelphia. After it was learned a verdict was coming down but before it was announced, an anchor gave “some background on the jurors.”

“The seven women and five men who are on the jury, at least nine told the court that they are pro-choice. Two say that they are neither pro-choice nor pro-life.”

In other words, wherever they might have fallen on the spectrum of abortion opinion, they were able to plow through the smokescreens delivered by Gosnell’s high-priced defense attorney, Jack McMahon to reach the truth.

Worth noting in passing that when Gosnell went to court February 4, 2011, he asked for a public defender! Stephanie Farr wrote an amazing piece for the Philadelphia Daily News three days later in an attempt to track the financial trail of a man whom the Grand Jury said made an immense amount of money—almost $1.8 million annually, just on abortions—“most of it was cash from desperate, poor women.”

And “That figure does not account for any of the money he took in from allegedly selling illegal prescriptions to drug addicts in his community, including his notable distinction of being one of the top three prescribers of OxyContin in Pennsylvania, something federal authorities continue to investigate,” Farr wrote. (See philly.com)

As we reported yesterday, McMahon simultaneously handed out praise for the jury and blamed the convictions on outside factors. He told reporters it a “very difficult case” to defend, adding there was “a little bit of feeling on the defense part of what salmon must feel swimming upstream.”

“There’s a lot of emotion. You have the baby factor, which is a big problem. The media has been overwhelmingly against him,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “But noting that Gosnell was cleared on some of the charges, McMahon said the jurors ‘obviously took their job seriously.’”
In passing McMahon also mentioned “infants” in his impromptu press conference after the verdicts were read.

Source: NRLC News