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The Philadelphia Horror: How Mass Murder Gets a Pass
Townhall.com ^ | January 21, 2011 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 01/21/2011 5:03:23 AM PST by Kaslin

Let's give the "climate of hate" rhetoric a rest for a moment. It's time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives unchecked. Dehumanizing rhetoric, rationalizing language and a callous disregard for life have numbed America to its monstrous consequences. Consider the Philadelphia Horror.

In the City of Brotherly Love, hundreds of babies were murdered by a scissors-wielding monster over four decades. Whistleblowers informed public officials at all levels of the wanton killings of innocent life. But a parade of government health bureaucrats and advocates protecting the abortion racket looked the other way -- until, that is, a Philadelphia grand jury finally exposed the infanticide factory run by abortionist Kermit B. Gosnell, M.D., and a crew of unlicensed, untrained butchers masquerading as noble providers of women's "choice." Prosecutors charged Gosnell and his death squad with multiple counts of murder, infanticide, conspiracy, abuse of corpse, theft and other offenses.

The 281-page grand jury report released Wednesday provides a bone-chilling account of how Gosnell's "Women's Medical Society" systematically preyed on poor, minority pregnant women and their live, viable babies. The report's introduction lays out the criminal enterprise that claimed the lives of untold numbers of babies -- and mothers:

"This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy -- and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels -- and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths. Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it."

Echoing the same kind of dark euphemisms plied by Planned Parenthood propagandists who refer to unborn life as "fetal and uterine material," Gosnell referred to his deadly trade as "ensuring fetal demise." Reminiscent of the word wizards who refer to the skull-crushing partial-birth abortion procedure as "intact dilation and evacuation" and "intrauterine cranial decompression," Gosnell described his destruction of babies' spinal cords as "snipping." He rationalized his macabre habit of cutting off dead babies' feet and saving them in rows and rows of specimen jars as "research." His guilt-ridden employees then took photos of some of the victims before dumping them in shoeboxes, paper bags, one-gallon spring-water bottles and glass jars.

They weren't the only ones who adopted a see-no-evil stance:

-- The Pennsylvania Department of Health knew of clinic violations dating back decades, but did nothing.

-- The Pennsylvania Department of State was "repeatedly confronted with evidence about Gosnell" -- including the clinic's unclean, unsterile conditions, unlicensed workers, unsupervised sedation, underage abortion patients and over-prescribing of pain pills with high resale value on the street -- "and repeatedly chose to do nothing."

-- Philadelphia Department of Public Health officials who regularly visited Gosnell's human waste-clogged offices did nothing.

-- Nearby hospital officials who treated some of the pregnant mothers who suffered grave complications from Gosnell's butchery did nothing.

-- An unnamed evaluator with the National Abortion Federation, the leading association of abortion providers that is supposed to uphold strict health and legal standards, determined that Gosnell's chamber of horrors was "the worst abortion clinic she had ever inspected" -- but did nothing.

Meanwhile, the death racketeers have launched a legislative and regulatory assault across the country on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers from New York City to Baltimore, Austin and Seattle that offer abortion alternatives, counseling and family services to mostly poor, vulnerable minority women.

Already, left-wing journalists and activists have rushed to explain that these abortion atrocities ignored for four decades by abortion radicals and rationalizers are not really about abortion. A Time magazine writer argued that the Philadelphia Horror was "about poverty, not Roe v. Wade." A University of Minnesota professor declared: "This is not about abortion."

But the grand jury itself pointed out that loosened oversight of abortion clinics enacted under pro-choice former GOP Gov. Tom Ridge enabled Gosnell's criminal enterprise -- and led to the heartless execution of hundreds of babies. Mass murder got a pass in the name of expanding "access" and appeasing abortion lobbyists.

As the report made clear: "With the change of administration from (pro-life Democratic) Gov. Casey to Gov. Ridge," government health officials "concluded that inspections would be 'putting a barrier up to women' seeking abortions. Better to leave clinics to do as they pleased, even though, as Gosnell proved, that meant both women and babies would pay."

Deadly indifference to protecting life isn't tangential to the abortion industry's existence -- it's at the core of it. The Philadelphia Horror is no anomaly. It's the logical, bloodcurdling consequence of an evil, eugenics-rooted enterprise wrapped in feminist clothing.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abortionists; gosnell; malkin; serialkiller
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1 posted on 01/21/2011 5:03:24 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

bttt


2 posted on 01/21/2011 5:08:07 AM PST by Guenevere (....)
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To: Kaslin

Excellent article, thanks for posting.

Dear God these people have done terrible things.


3 posted on 01/21/2011 5:11:30 AM PST by agere_contra (Historically every time the Left has 'expanded its moral imagination' the results have been horrific)
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To: Kaslin

Liberals adore the abortion of minority babies.


4 posted on 01/21/2011 5:14:04 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Kaslin

This just stabs me in the heart.

“Not about abortion”? “About poverty?” Talk about trying to shift perception, typical disingenuous liberal response.

And I wonder how well those PA State Health regulators have been sleeping at night lately. The article blames Tom Ridge and perhaps that’s valid. But hairs are being split about these poor murdered infants and any other infant murdered in the state-sanctioned practice of abortion in this country.

The media is silent as lambs on it too.


5 posted on 01/21/2011 5:15:08 AM PST by prairiebreeze ( Hooray for the Red, White and Blue!)
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To: Kaslin

If the abortionist were a Moslem, we wouldn’t even be able to discuss the events.


6 posted on 01/21/2011 5:17:12 AM PST by Tax-chick (An attack on Sarah Palin is an attack on me.)
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To: Kaslin

Abortion, Muslims, envirowackos, liberal judges - everything the Liberal Democrats have kills. They are the death party. Sounds like Communism doesn’t it?


7 posted on 01/21/2011 5:26:17 AM PST by RoadTest (Religion is no substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: Kaslin
If this is civilization, then I am going to be a barbarian like my ancestors.
8 posted on 01/21/2011 5:26:30 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Kaslin
A classic example of getting exactly what you asked for, and then complaining about it. Every effort will be made to not let this thing go to a public trial. I really hope it does. That will do real damage to the abortion industry and it's cultists.

It will not happen though. Plea deal for sure.

9 posted on 01/21/2011 5:26:36 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Erik Latranyi

“Liberals adore the abortion of minority babies.”

They’re also called “Progressives” and in the early part of this century favored “eugenics”: the “science” of killing off undesirables, or preventing their births. Negoes were on the undesirable list.


10 posted on 01/21/2011 5:29:03 AM PST by RoadTest (Religion is no substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: Guenevere

Thanks for the bump


11 posted on 01/21/2011 5:29:20 AM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

New tone? The “doctor” saved those babies from suffering under nobama.


12 posted on 01/21/2011 5:34:09 AM PST by hal ogen (quit fighting these societal vampire DIM/LIB moonbats.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Liberals adore the abortion of minority babies.

Doesn't this prove that liberals are racists?

13 posted on 01/21/2011 5:35:11 AM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Start naming names.

Let’s know exactly who didn’t do their job(s), and hold them fully responsible for their disgusting actions (or inactions).


14 posted on 01/21/2011 5:35:21 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Kaslin

Horrifying. And one more reminder that feminism is not about rights—anybody’s.


15 posted on 01/21/2011 5:37:56 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: agere_contra
Thanks

They will be judged when the time comes (I am sure you know what I mean)

16 posted on 01/21/2011 5:40:30 AM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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But the grand jury itself pointed out that loosened oversight of abortion clinics enacted under pro-choice former GOP Gov. Tom Ridge enabled Gosnell's criminal enterprise -- and led to the heartless execution of hundreds of babies.

And to think, that murdering slimeball was being bandied about by the GOP elites as a potential Presidential candidate. Damn him!

17 posted on 01/21/2011 6:24:08 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe; wagglebee; little jeremiah; narses
bandied about by the GOP elites as a potential Presidential candidate. Damn him!

Rinos are nothing more than liberals who are compelled to prove their street cred to the "real" liberals in the Dem Party. Which is what almost all of the Pubbie candidates are.

This is nothing more than ancient Caananite/Mid-Eastern sacrifice of infants. This demon saved their feet in jars as trophies.

Justice would be his conviction and execution by a jury of his peers. Instead he will be feted and applauded.

18 posted on 01/21/2011 6:44:27 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
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To: Kaslin
I used to receive my university's monthly alumni magazine until they profiled an older graduate who was a doctor. On the cover was a picture of an avuncular old gent in scrubs who reminded me of Dave Thomas the founder of Wendy's but without a smile.

I recall only a few lines from the article. The doctor was quoted as saying "I first started performing abortions for the money as I was just starting out and I needed it . . . ." I cannot recall the rest of the article.

What amazed me was that no where in the process from interview to print did anyone say "Wait! This may not be such a good idea." I immediately informed the alumnni office I no longer wished to receive their magazine.

19 posted on 01/21/2011 6:44:45 AM PST by Oratam
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To: xzins
I suspect that Romney was more of a pro-Choice Republican than Ridge. I also suspect that this kind of thing is going on in Massachusetts as we speak. Abortion is nothing less than Child Sacrifice. It is done in order to make the parent's lives more comfortable. They sacrifice their children in order that the demon gods will bless them with economic prosperity.

In this case, (and I suspect in many clinics in Liberal states where abortion is treated more as a Religious Sacrament than a medical procedure) the doctor waited until the baby was born before snuffing out its life.

Abortion is EVIL. Anyone who says otherwise is EVIL.

20 posted on 01/21/2011 6:51:05 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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