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A Second look at State Sen. Wendy Davis’ remark about Kermit Gosnell

 

 

By Dave Andrusko

Texas Pro-abortion State Senator Wendy Davis speaking Monday at the National Press Club

Thanks for those who took the time to write about our story yesterday on pro-abortion “icon” Texas state Senator Wendy Davis (“Pro-abortion Texas State Senator says ‘I don’t know what happened in the Gosnell case’”)
There was much to critique about what Davis said to John McCormack of The Weekly Standard, following her speech to the National Press Club which (surprise, surprise) garnered a standing ovation. But in pointing all the evasions and misstatements, I missed the real significance of a very important statement Davis which made brought to light by the pro-life blogger jivinjehoshaphat.blogspot.com.

What I overlooked didn’t change most of what I had written. But here’s where I went wrong. Davis told McCormack, “I don’t know what happened in the Gosnell case. But I do know that it happened in an ambulatory surgical center. And in Texas changing our clinics to that standard obviously isn’t going to make a difference.” I wrote

“Although the fallout from the three murder convictions of abortionist Kermit Gosnell was everywhere in the discussion (and not just in Texas), Davis purports not to ‘know what happened in the Gosnell case.’ This is patently absurd. Even if she didn’t know the details—for example, that Gosnell murdered hundreds of viable babies (according to the Philadelphia Grand Jury report) by aborting them alive and the severing their spinal cord—Davis doubtless knew enough to pretend she knew nothing!”

Like most everyone, I listened too fast. I thought she was referring to Gosnell. But as jivinjehoshaphat.blogspot.com shrewdly observed, “Only Gosnell’s clinic was obviously not a surgical ambulatory facility. But you know whose is? Texas abortionist Douglas Karpen.”
We’ve written about Karpen more than once. In a good piece of investigative reporting, the Houston Chronicle provided not only a detailed history of malpractice claims against the Houston abortionist but also “troubling allegations of a woman’s death caused by a botched abortion as well as allegations of a late-term procedure that went awry, with a baby being born and living for six months before dying.”

Jivinjehoshaphat.blogspot.com believes, “Either Davis got the two confused or isn’t aware they’re different people.” That is likely the case.

 

Assuming that is so, what is that Davis may be admitting in a back-handed way, perhaps without even realizing it? That abortionists who specialize in late abortions are going to be every bit as awful as Gosnell was proven to be (and as Karpen is suspecting of being) even if the requirements they are supposed to meet are increased?

Remember there were SOME requirements Gosnell was supposed to meet. He didn’t, was not penalized for it (because of a host of indifferent and/or pro-abortion city and state health agencies), and wound up murdering the hundreds of unborn babies that he’d aborted alive and whose spines he then slit, according to the Philadelphia Grand Jury.
Is Davis’ point that even requiring Gosnell (and by extension Karpen and others like him) to meet the standards of a surgical ambulatory facility won’t make any difference, not only to the babies but to their mothers as well?

That could surely prove to be true IF state and local health officials chose—like those in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania did—to avert their eyes, to fail to do their duties, and to be more concerned that inspections would be “‘putting a barrier up to women’ seeking abortions” than what happens to pregnant women and their unborn babies.

It’ll be up to pro-lifers to make sure those requirements are met.

Source:NRLC News