Jury selection begins today in the trial of Philadelphia
late-term abortionist and accused serial infanticide Dr. Kermit Gosnell.
He faces charges of first-degree murder and a potential death sentence
for allegedly
killing seven infants born alive and viable after their mothers had abortions.
As background, I’m reprinting my January 2011 column/blog post on the
case. To conquer evil, we must confront evil, name it, and combat it.
The “fetal material”-stuffed freezer at Philadelphia’s “Women’s Medical Society”
The mainstream news reports about Philadelphia’s serial baby-killer Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic death squad only
scratch the surface of his barbaric enterprise. You
must, must, must
read the entire, graphic, 281-page grand jury report (embedded after my
column below) to fully fathom the systematic execution of hundreds of
(not just
seven)
healthy, living, breathing, squirming, viable babies — along with an
untold number of mothers who may have lost their lives in his sick,
grimy chamber of horrors as well. It is explicit. It is enraging. It
will haunt you.
Ask yourself why you are not hearing about which root causes and
whose rhetoric are to blame for this four-decades-long massacre — just
the tip of a blood-soaked iceberg defended by the
predators of
Planned Parenthood. You know the answer: If it doesn’t help the Left criminalize conservatism, it’s
not worth discussing.
From the conclusion of the grand jury report: “It is not our job to
say who should be fired or demoted. We believe, however, that anyone
responsible for permitting Gosnell to operate as he did should face
strong disciplinary action up to and including termination. This
includes not only the people who failed to do the inspecting, the
prosecuting, and the protecting, but also
those at the top
who obviously tolerated, or even encouraged, the inaction. The
Department of State literally licensed Gosnell’s criminally dangerous
behavior. DOH gave its stamp of approval to his facility. These agencies
do not deserve the public’s trust. The fate of Karnamaya Mongar and
countless babies with severed spinal cords is proof that people at those
departments were not doing their jobs. Those charged with protecting
the public must do better.”
Over to you,
eugenics-inspired,
eco-freak Obama science czar
John Holdren…
***
The Philadelphia Horror: How mass murder gets a pass
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
Let’s give the “climate of hate” rhetoric a rest for a moment. It’s
time to talk about the climate of death in which the abortion industry
thrives unchecked. Dehumanizing rhetoric, rationalizing language, and a
callous disregard for life have numbed America to its monstrous
consequences. Consider the Philadelphia Horror.
In the City of Brotherly Love, hundreds of babies were
murdered
by a scissors-wielding monster over four decades. Whistle blowers
informed public officials at all levels of the wanton killings of
innocent life. But a parade of government health bureaucrats and
advocates protecting the abortion racket looked the other way – until,
that is, a Philadelphia grand jury finally exposed the infanticide
factory run by abortionist Kermit B. Gosnell, M.D., and a crew of
unlicensed, untrained butchers masquerading as noble providers of
women’s “choice.” Prosecutors
charged
Gosnell and his death squad with multiple counts of murder,
infanticide, conspiracy, abuse of corpse, theft, and other offenses.
The 281-page grand jury report (see full embedded document below)
released Wednesday provides a bone-chilling account of how Gosnell’s
“Women’s Medical Society” systematically preyed on poor, minority
pregnant women and their live, viable babies. The report’s introduction
lays out the criminal enterprise that claimed the lives of untold
numbers of babies — and mothers:
“This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered
women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live,
viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered
these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The
medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy
fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread
venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their
wombs and bowels – and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths.
Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on
here. But no one put a stop to it.”
Echoing the same kind of dark euphemisms plied by Planned Parenthood
propagandists who refer to unborn life as “fetal and uterine material,”
Gosnell referred to his deadly trade as “
ensuring fetal demise.”
Reminiscent of the word wizards who refer to the skull-crushing
partial-birth abortion procedure as “intact dilation and evacuation” and
“intrauterine cranial decompression,” Gosnell described his destruction
of babies’ spinal cords as “
snipping.”
He rationalized his macabre habit of cutting off dead babies’ feet
and saving them in rows and rows of specimen jars as “research.”
His guilt-ridden employees then took photos of some of the victims
before dumping them in shoe-boxes, paper bags, one-gallon spring-water
bottles, and glass jars.
They weren’t the only ones who adopted a see-no-evil stance:
*The
Pennsylvania Department of Health knew of clinic violations dating back decades, but did nothing;
*The
Pennsylvania Department of State was
“repeatedly confronted with evidence about Gosnell” – including the
clinic’s unclean, unsterile conditions, unlicensed workers, unsupervised
sedation, underage abortion patients, and over-prescribing of pain
pills with high resale value on the street – “and repeatedly chose to do
nothing.”
*
Philadelphia Department of Public Health officials who regularly visited Gosnell’s human waste-clogged offices did nothing;
*
Nearby hospital officials who treated some of the pregnant mothers who suffered grave complications from Gosnell’s butchery did nothing; and
*The
National Abortion Federation, the leading
association of abortion providers that is supposed to uphold strict
health and legal standards, determined that Gosnell’s chamber of horrors
was “the worst abortion clinic she had ever inspected” – but did
nothing.
Meanwhile, the death racketeers have launched a legislative and regulatory assault across the country on
pro-life crisis pregnancy centers from
New York City to Baltimore, Austin, and Seattle who offer
abortion alternatives, counseling, and family services to mostly poor, vulnerable, minority women.
Already, left-wing journalists and activists have rushed to explain
that these abortion atrocities ignored for four decades by abortion
radicals and rationalizers are not really about abortion. A Time
magazine writer argued that the Philadelphia Horror was
“about poverty, not Roe V. Wade.” A University of Minnesota professor declared:
“This is not about abortion.”
But the grand jury itself pointed out that loosened oversight of
abortion clinics enacted under pro-choice former GOP governor Tom Ridge
enabled Gosnell’s criminal enterprise – and led to the heartless
execution of hundreds of babies. Mass murder got a pass in the name of
expanding “access” and appeasing abortion lobbyists. As the report made
clear: “With the change of administration from [pro-life Democrat]
Governor Casey to Governor Ridge,” government health officials
“concluded that inspections would be ‘putting a barrier up to women’
seeking abortions. Better to leave clinics to do as they pleased, even
though, as Gosnell proved, that meant both women and babies would pay.”
Deadly
indifference
to protecting life isn’t tangential to the abortion industry’s
existence – it’s at the core of it. The Philadelphia Horror is no
anomaly. It’s the logical, blood-curdling consequence of an
evil,
eugenics-rooted enterprise wrapped in
feminist clothing.
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