Philadelphia’s Dr Death, abortion, and the great media blackout

As you already know, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is charged with 8 counts of murder of one woman and 7 babies born alive after botched abortions. By the way, this is the same practice that the young President defended as a State Senator in Illinois in 2002. But that’s not all, his “clinic” was apparently full of discarded baby body parts stored in a wide variety of containers including empty food cans. So why is it the media, with few exceptions, is not covering this with the same fervor it’s been covering the shooting in Tucson? “It’s not a heart beat dear, it’s a heart tone.”

The horror of what investigators found in Gosnell’s Philadelphia clinic would make a Freddie Kruegar movie look like a Pixar film. Why I thought Roe vs Wade ended this kind of stuff. I thought abortion was about women’s health care? Ah, well.

Authorities went to investigate drug-related complaints at the clinic last year and stumbled on what Williams called a “house of horrors.”

“There were bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses were scattered throughout the building,” Williams said. “There were jars, lining shelves, with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose.”

The clinic was shut down and Gosnell’s medical license was suspended after the raid.

Now women are beginning to speak, but is it enough? Will we see a national debate for a new civility in “women’s reproductive rights”? Here’s one speaking out … via HotAir. “I don’t want him to get the death penalty … I want him to get life in prison … so he can suffer …”

Go and read Ed’s entire post because in it he quotes Kevin McCullough at Townhall, who asks the ultimate question … why are we outraged now?

Why are we so outraged now?

The truth is, the procedure Gosnell preferred is not new. Third term, especially “late term,” abortions are performed the same way in overwhelming numbers.

Commonly referred to as “partial birth abortions” the procedure begins the same was as the “Gosnell abortion.” Inducing labor and beginning the delivery of the child is where most of the children are lost in both procedures. As many as 75% of the children lose their lives in the process of early induced labor. Leaving roughly 25% of the children involved to have their lives terminated through an additional step.

In partial birth abortion, the child is delivered to within two inches of being free of the birth canal. In the “Gosnell” he delivered the child completely.

Now, can we expect the President to show up at a rally .. err … memorial for these dead babies. Can we expect weeping and gnashing of teeth for these and other women who suffer through constant pain, sometimes physical, sometimes emotional. the odds are know. Some may remember, some may not, that this President stood up for and defended these same late term procedures as a state senator in 2002. Remember?

In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same year a similar federal law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, was signed by President Bush. Only 15 members of the U.S. House opposed it, and it passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote.

Both the Illinois and the federal bill sought equal treatment for babies who survived premature inducement for the purpose of abortion and wanted babies who were born prematurely and given live-saving medical attention.

Amanda Carpenter goes on to detail how the President fought restrictions that would have provided for another doctor to be present to ensure that a baby born alive received medical attention. But Amanda reminds us, Obama wanted not part of it.

At the end of the hearing, according to the official records of the Illinois State senate, Obama thanked Stanek for being “very clear and forthright,” but said his concern was that Stanek had suggested “doctors really don’t care about children who are being born with a reasonable prospect of life because they are so locked into their pro-abortion views that they would watch an infant that is viable die.” He told her, “That may be your assessment, and I don’t see any evidence of that. What we are doing here is to create one more burden on a woman and I can’t support that.”

Got that? A burden … kind of like his daughters being burdened with a mistake, no?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbaig-D5pk

Or maybe … it’s just all above his pay grade.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vym5UmcY3QE

So, as Kevin McCullough asked today, why are we outraged now?

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

6 Comments

  1. johnboy111 on January 24, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    WOW!!!!and the "lame stream media" is where on this?????



  2. Dimsdale on January 24, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    I don't wonder why he hides his college transcripts anymore.  A lightweight like this has to hide his tracks…



  3. PatRiot on January 24, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    January 17, 2011   from http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/family_law/2011/

    NYC Abortions  

    The number of abortions in New York City in 2009 has been released:

    From CBS New York:   In 2009, there were 225,667 pregnancies in the City with 126,774 resulting in live births and 87,273 resulting in abortions. In addition to those abortion numbers, there were 11,620 spontaneous terminations.

    And we think China has a bad human rights record.  

    And to think that on CBS news tonight with Katie Couric, Mike Bloomberg is upset with 34 Americans a day NATIONWIDE are killed by gun fire.  Do the math Mike, that's 12,420 a year.  Sad, but hardly where the focus needs to be.

    How many Einsteins and Mother Teresas will the world miss out on?

    A man who walks away from injustice is almost as guilty as the wrongdoer.



  4. winnie888 on January 25, 2011 at 1:45 am

    Um, there is no such thing as abstinence education in the public schools.  Condom lessons, and STD education. That's pretty much where sex ed. is.

    Babies are now punishment?  What about the moral fortitude to carry the baby to term and give it up for adoption to a loving home?  This president does not view an unborn child as a life.  Pro-choice does mean pro-abortion.   It cannot mean anything else.  Obama, Sebelius and their media support late-term abortions.  The end.

    And this "doctor" should endure as much suffering as he has caused in his community. But, sadly, he's had the support of our government.



  5. Tim-in-Alabama on January 26, 2011 at 4:04 am

    This story is absolutely horrific. How many more hell holes are there like this? Big Abortion kills more than a million babies a year, and groups like Planned Parenthood receive taxpayer money for macabre "reproductive health" service. When will it end?

    More than 1.2 million killed in 2006.
    http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/table



  6. Herald7 on January 27, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Pro choice groups don't see these things happening or try to prevent them because they're too busy worshipping abortion.



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