It is of no surprise to me that we initially
heard little-to-nothing from the national liberal media about the trial of
abortions performed by Dr. Kermit Gosnell.
(The left-leaning media would never want the public to really know the
gruesomeness of the abortion industry in American that has now killed over 52-million
babies since the Row vs. Wade Supreme
Court Decision in 1973 … because it would result in bring an end to this
American holocaust.) But the USA Today columnist, Kirsten Powers, brought
light to this dark cesspool in Philadelphia (my birthplace) … posturing as an
abortion clinic (operating without inspection for 17 years). Gosnell has been formally charged in the murder
of one woman and seven infants. 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 was snuffed out daily,
Gosnell would be indicted for the death of hundreds of live-birth children. The national press got dragged unwillingly to
report it because of Ms. Powers’ courageous column.
Despite the sense that no one was
paying attention to the Gosnell story before Kirsten Powers wrote about it, you
need to know that Dr. Gardner (founder and president of the National Black Pro-life Union), Dr.
Alveda King (niece of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), 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 the other week, The Washington Times had 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 January 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.
Why is it that this gets so little
attention by mainstream media? There are
at least two reasons:
1. As a nation we still are willing to
tolerate abortion. We say that Dr.
Gosnell should be convicted of murder because he botched an abortion. Never mind that he destroyed (by brutal
murder) a live child. We somehow think
it is okay if that same child dies while still in the womb.
2. The filthy 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.
The sad reality is that while
Gosnell's crimes may be an extreme case, he is by no means alone in his
contempt for life. The pro-life group Live Action just recently released two
new undercover videos from abortion mills in the Bronx, NYC and Washington,
D.C., revealing that both facilities might allow a baby born during a botched
abortion to die. At the Bronx “clinic,”
a staffer discussing a late-term abortion said she would essentially drown the
baby in a jar of solution to stop it from “twitching.” When an investigator asked what she should do
if the two-day long procedure caused her to go into labor at home and delivered
a live baby, the staffer says, “Flush it!”
The D.C. abortionist was more artful with his choice of words. When asked what he would do if a baby were
born alive, he said: “Technically -- you know, legally we would be obligated to
help it, you know, to survive. … It's all in how vigorously you do things to
help a fetus survive at this point.
Let's say you went into labor … and you delivered before we got to the
termination part of the procedure here, you know? Then we would do things -- we would -- we
would not help it.”
The practice of “after-birth abortions”
is likely more widespread than most of us realized. One of the left's biggest lies is that it
stands for compassion. Where does
after-birth abortion fit into anyone's idea of compassion? While most Americans rightly recoil in
horror, too few realize that this is a legacy of Roe vs. Wade. Some elites
complain that the conservative movement is perceived as “uncaring.” Yet they are the very same people who suggest
we stop talking about issues like the sanctity of life.
So what can we do? At minimum, we can demand that our tax
dollars cease to fund our 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.”
And to think that in the midst of this
Gosnell trial, President Obama became the first sitting president to address
the Planned Parenthood national
conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the nation's largest destroyer of
innocent human life. His speech was full
of distortions. As is so typical of the
left, Obama accused the pro-life movement of wanting to “turn back the clock to
… the 1950s.” He added that there is an “orchestrated
and historic effort to roll back basic rights when it comes to women's
health.” Isn't it amazing that in
Obama's world, 1.2 million abortions a year is seen as progress? It is obscene when Obama equates the killing
of innocent unborn children with healthcare. Pregnancy is not a disease! Even accepting that there are occasions when
a woman's life or health may be in danger, such circumstances are among the
rarest of reasons why abortions are performed today. Obama concluded with pledging his allegiance to
Planned Parenthood, saying – “… I want you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right
there with you, fighting every step of the way. Thank you, Planned
Parenthood. God bless you.”
Let me translate that for you: While
we are cutting back on education, our military and benefits to our seniors,
Obama will be there to make sure that your hard-earned tax money keeps flowing
to Planned Parenthood to subsidize
abortions and to make sure that no legislation preventing any abortion of any
kind ever becomes law.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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