Kermit Gosnell is not an exception,
he’s the face of abortion
Lifenews.com – Star Parker –
4/22/2013
Kirsten Powers has done a
national service, by virtue of her now famous USA Today column, of getting the
news of the trial of abortion doctor Kermit
Gosnell on the national radar screen.
This of course, is the
horror story of a cesspool in Philadelphia
However, the grand jury
report and testimony of family and staff at the trial indicate that if there
were records in this dump, where life and death were meted out daily, Gosnell
would be indicted for hundreds of murders of live children.
Most likely, and sadly, this
horror story will have its fifteen minutes of fame and the nation will move on.
The national press got dragged unwillingly to report it, finally, because of
Ms. Powers’ courageous column. But there is no way to keep them on a story they
don’t want to cover.
Maybe we can keep this story
alive by keeping in mind a few things.
What was happening in
Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society clinic was not some bizarre exception to the
rule.
You can ask Day Gardner,
founder and president of the National Black Pro-life Union. Her life is
dedicated to covering these realities. In her words, “This is not an exception.
These realities are happening every day all over our country.”
Despite the sense that no
one was paying attention to the Gosnell story before Kirsten Powers wrote about
it, know that Dr. Gardner, Dr. Alveda King, and other pro-life activists were
demonstrating outside Gosnell’s clinic as early as February 2011.
They held a press conference
about the trial on April 4, a week before Powers’ column appeared. Alveda King
wrote in her blog the day before, “…Rev. Clenard Childress and Dr. Day
Gardner…are in Philadelphia reporting on the Kermit Gosnell trial that the
mainstream media is virtually ignoring.“
Just this week, The Washington
Times has reported that Gosnell-like conditions have existed at a Planned
Parenthood abortion clinic in Vice President Biden’s own backyard in Delaware
The Times reports “Abortions
have been suspended at a Delaware Planned Parenthood, after several 911 calls
made from within the clinic prompted a new investigation by Health and Human
Services.”
Two nurses quit to protect
their licenses, one saying “I couldn’t tell you how ridiculously unsafe it
was.”
According to the story,
“Since Jan. 4, five patients have been rushed to the emergency room.”
Last year pro-life activists
worked assiduously to get press attention on the story of the death of
24-year-old Tonya Reaves, who died after a botched abortion procedure at a
Chicago Planned Parenthood clinic.
These realities persist for
two reasons.
One, we still as a nation
are willing to tolerate the reality of abortion. We still allow ourselves to
believe that Dr. Gosnell should be convicted of murder because he botched an
abortion, the live child was born, and he still destroyed it. But that somehow
it would have been okay if that same child died while still in the womb.
And two, the squalid
conditions allowing this butchery to take place all over the nation persist for
the same reason that the Gosnell trial almost went uncovered. The press does
not want to report about the gruesome truths of abortion. And, because it occurs disproportionately among low
income, minority women, they are even less interested.
We can, at minimum, do
something as a nation today. We can stop allowing our tax dollars to fund the
nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
According to Congresswoman
Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn), who has submitted a bill to stop funding Planned
Parenthood, “Every 94 seconds Planned Parenthood performs an abortion and in
that amount of time they take in over $1600 in federal taxpayer money.”
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