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…..Even though I knew the story, I came home from watching the movie “Gosnell” somewhat shell-shocked and remained that way for hours. I found myself starting sentences like this, “I…uh…” and “Yes,…uh…” and being unable to finish. My emotions were in such turmoil that I couldn’t think clearly.
…..Kermit Gosnell was an abortionist who practiced his bloody trade for more than 30 years in his Philadelphia clinic. In 2011, it was raided by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies because of drug violations. Then, a horrible secret was discovered. The grand jury report said, “The clinic reeked of animal urine, courtesy of the cats that were allowed to roam (and defecate) freely. Furniture and blankets were stained with blood. Instru-ments were not properly sterilized. Disposable medical supplies were not disposed of; they were reused, over and over again. Medical equipment – such as the defibrillator, the EKG, the pulse oximeter, the blood pressure cuff – was generally broken; even when it worked, it wasn’t used. The emergency exit was padlocked shut. And scattered throughout, in cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs, were fetal remains. It was a baby charnel house.”1
…..Although Gosnell could have been tried for many more, he was only charged with, and tried for 7 counts of murder (along with many other violations of law including a third-degree murder charge regarding a patient who died). He was found guilty of three murders and much more, and sentenced to life in prison.
…..When Gosnell botched an abortion and the baby survived, he murdered the baby by snipping its spinal cord. Prosecutors wanted to try him for a hundred murders but the Philadelphia police department didn’t want their murder rate to be affected. A clinic worker who was also convicted of murder said that “there were nights when there were so many living babies born it was almost impossible to keep up with the pace of killing.”2
…..Abortion murder advocates would like us to believe that the Gosnell case was an anomaly, but in many ways it was not. It was part of abortion and the horrors of Gosnell’s clinic were caused by abortion.
…..Because of the absolute right to abortion that the bloody supreme court of 1973 gave in Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton, health inspectors were forced into a hands-off position for a number of years until additional decisions were handed down. Edward King, a deputy director of the Chicago Medical Society, said in 1978, “The Courts very effectively knocked the Department of Health out of the picture. We’re not even entitled to cross the threshold of these clinics.”3 Abortion, as ordained by Roe vs. Wade, placed many women in danger in clinics that would not have met normal inspections if they had been allowed.
…..The movie reveals that abortion made the Gosnell situation possible in another way. Gosnell’s clinic went seventeen years without inspections because the governor of Pennsylvania ordered that no inspections be made “in order not to interfere with women’s reproductive rights.” In the movie, these words ring out, “Nobody wanted to say anything; nobody wanted to know.” The idea of abortion is so important that the health and well-being of the women who the “right” is for does not matter. Reproductive rights for women are more important than the women. This idea is not limited to that Pennsylvania governor. It’s fairly common.
…..The movie reveals another common aspect that abortion in general has with the Gosnell case. A woman who ran/worked another abortion clinic testified in the Gosnell trial. While being questioned by the defense attorney, she admitted that babies did survive abortion in her clinic as well. Some, she said, “Are out and breathing.” Gosnell would snip the spinal cords of such babies. What did the other clinic do? They gave them “comfort care.” Aren’t you glad that those babies were given comfort care? It sounds wonderful, but that means they were kept warm and comfortable and put aside, normally alone, while they struggled and gasped for air until they died. This again is common to abortion. This is part of the horror pro-choice people and Murdercrat voters continue and participate in by their votes and other support.
…..But there are some who also murder just as Gosnell did. One facility would take the babies and put them in water so they would drown. Three workers in another clinic reported that “babies were born daily and killed.”4
…..The movie also revealed that the liberal media, which supports abortion murder, is reluctant to report on anything that is negative about the abortion industry (as if 2500 abortion murders per day isn’t negative!). Because of the significance of the case, the sheer number of murders that Gosnell had committed and the horrors of his filthy abortion clinic, court officials set aside row after row of seats for the media. The movie shows the prosecutors driving to the court on the first day, being told how to respond to the mob of media that would immediately begin to crowd and question them when they got to the courthouse. “You’re going to be swarmed by reporters.” But none came. No one was on the courthouse steps waiting for them. The rows of seats that had been set aside in the courtroom were almost empty.
…..The movie shows one persistent reporter (Mollie Hemingway, I think) who chided the media and shamed it until they finally could duck the attention they were getting, and the liberal media came to court. The “New York Times” reporter came and stayed five minutes. Yes, you can certainly trust the liberal media to present the truth and give you all the important news – 5 minutes of reporting on the worst serial killer (of those born) in the history of the United States. Kermit Gosnell may have cut the spinal cords of hundreds of babies that had been born from his botched abortions but the media had to be forced to cover that huge story because it was linked to abortion murder that they support and help continue.
…..Abortion on demand is all about abortion and not women at all. It is abortion’s availability that matters, not the women who have them. In my book, Murdercrats: Millions of Abortion Murderers which is available at Amazon, I compare abortion to communism in that respect. “Gosnell” reveals the circumstances that allowed the abortionist who murdered in the womb and out of the womb to go on and on, harming numerous women on the way. But it didn’t really matter, did it, liberal media? It didn’t really matter, did it, abortion murder advocates?
…..How about you? Does it matter to you, or is your heart hardened by voting for abortion through votes for Murdercrats and then defending yourself with the absurd arguments that the murderers themselves have deceived you with? See the movie. If it doesn’t grip you, there’s simply no hope for you.
Dennis Lange
1 https://cdn.cnsnews.com/documents/Gosnell,%20Grand%20Jury%20
Report.pdf
2 https://townhall.com/columnists/phelimmcaleer/2018/10/18/nbc-abortion-fanatic-attacks-gosnell-movie-n2529707
3 Forsythe, Clarke D. Abuse Of Discretion (New York: Encounter Books,
2013), p.211.
4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fhyJItGPko