Congress Launches Abortion
Investigation After Kermit Gosnell Horrors
LifeNews.com - Steven Ertelt
- 5/9/13
A House committee has
launched a nationwide investigation in response to the trial
of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion practitioner charged with multiple counts
of murder for gruesome abortions and infanticides.
The
move follows letters from another committee to public health officials
in all 50 states asking them what they are doing to prevent “House of Horrors”
abortion clinics like the one Kermit Gosnell ran in Pennsylvania
Because the Gosnell Grand Jury report identified a
“regulatory collapse” that allowed Gosnell to go undetected for decades, the
House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to all 50 state attorneys general
asking questions about efforts to protect the civil rights of newborns and
their mothers.
The grand jury report specifies that inspections of
abortion clinics were discontinued by the administration of a pro-choice
governor who “was motivated by a desire not to be ‘putting up a barrier to
women.’”
Responding to that, House
Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Constitution and Civil
Justice Subcommittee Chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) have sent a letter to all
50 state attorneys general seeking to find out if state and local governments
are being stymied in their efforts to protect the civil rights of newborns and
their mothers and if the federal government might be able to partner with
states to prevent newborn homicides.
The letter asks the state attorneys general to
respond to several questions and to provide copies of any official written
procedures or guidance that relate to the gathering of information on, or the
prosecution of, newborn homicides by June 1, 2013.
This letter follows the
shocking allegations against Kermit Gosnell, who is charged with the serial
murder of infants, the murder of a female patient, and other felonies committed
in the operation of his abortion clinic in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Meanwhile, Congressman
Stephen Fincher, a Tennessee Republican, along with two other co-sponsors,
introduced H. Res. 206, a resolution calling on the U.S. House of Representatives
to review public policies that led to illegal abortion practices, such as those
of Gosnell.
The resolution, which was
introduced with three original co-sponsors: Fincher, Rep. Stutzman (R-IN) and
Rep. Blackburn (R-TN) resolves “Congress
and States should gather information about and correct abusive, unsanitary, and
illegal abortion practices and the interstate referral of women and girls to
facilities engaged in dangerous or illegal second- and third-trimester
procedures.”
“The more I hear about the
Gosnell trial, the more my heart breaks,” Fincher told LifeNews. “With today’s
technology you can actually see the baby grow, move and hear their little heart
beats. Late-term abortions are unconscionable. As a nation, it’s time to put
politics aside and do the right thing to protect innocent little babies.”
Stutzman added, “We owe it to the weakest among us to
investigate public policies and abortion practices to determine what can be
done to prevent more of these barbaric crimes. In a nation grounded upon
equal protection under the law, Congress has an obligation to gather the facts
and prevent future atrocities.”
Blackburn said: “Gosnell has debunked the myth that
abortion in America America
Below are excerpts from the
committee’s letter. A copy of one of the letters can be found here.
“By now you are surely aware
of the trial of Kermit Gosnell. The Pennsylvania Department of Health, whose
job it is to monitor facilities like Gosnell’s, conducted sporadic site reviews
between 1979 and 1993, citing various violations. But for ‘political reasons’ the Department of
Health decided to stop inspecting abortion clinics at all in 1993.
“We have all been shocked by
the tragedy in Pennsylvania
“We presume that each of
you, upon learning of the failures highlighted by the Gosnell trial, have
considered what your state governments are doing to ensure that similar crimes
could not be perpetrated in your state. As federal officeholders, we too
have an obligation to find out whether newborn infants—who are unquestionably
persons under the law, regardless of one’s views on abortion—are being denied
their most basic civil rights. We are seeking to find out if state and
local governments are being stymied in their efforts to protect the civil
rights of newborns and their mothers by legal or financial obstacles that are
within the federal government’s power to address.”
Letter from Judiciary
Committee to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, VA
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