A Philadelphia jury has
convicted Abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell of murder and other charges because of
his shocking practices at his “House of Horrors” abortion clinic in West Philadelphia .
Even though nine of the twelve
jurors were pro-abortion, they convicted Gosnell of three counts of
first-degree murder and infanticide in the deaths of three infants that were
born alive after botched abortions, as well as numerous counts of violating
Pennsylvania’s Abortion Control Act of 1990 that prohibits abortions after 24
weeks gestation and violating its requirement of counseling and a 24-hour
waiting period. He was also convicted of
involuntary manslaughter in the case of a woman who died in his care because of
his grossly negligent procedures, as it was difficult to prove malice in order
to convict him of third-degree murder. In
all, Gosnell was convicted of over 200 counts.
Gosnell struck a plea deal after the verdict to avoid the death penalty
and accepting a life sentence. Several
other workers at the clinic had either pleaded guilty to murder or other
charges or were also convicted. Gosnell
also faces federal drug charges for various alleged violations in regard to
prescription drugs.
Gosnell’s defense claimed the
babies were not born alive, but this argument was inconsistent with the fact
that he snipped their spines. The jury
concluded that the babies were, in fact, born alive.
Although there were many other
babies allegedly killed after having been born alive, at least there was
justice rendered for three of the cases that were the most egregious and
provable beyond a reasonable doubt.
Pro-abortion Governor
Tom Ridge
had implemented a policy of not inspecting abortion clinics annually like any
other medical facility within Pennsylvania
out of concern that following the regulations would make it too financially
burdensome for such clinics to operate.
In other words, it was pro-abortion politics that created the Gosnell
monster. Governor Ed Rendell continued
the policy. After the discovery of
Gosenell’s “House of Horrors” abortion clinic in 2011, the Republican-led
General Assembly passed a bill to required inspections of abortion clinics by
the Commonwealth’s Department of Health, which was signed into law by Governor
Tom Corbett, a Republican.
The Gosnell case exposed the fact
that many abortion clinics are located in the inner city, particularly in
predominately black neighborhoods, such as West
Philadelphia . Abortionists
prey on blacks, other minorities and the poor while claiming they are providing
them “health-care services.” The
targeting of these groups has been a practice of the lucrative abortion
industry since the founding of Planned Parenthood by Margaret Sanger, who was a
devotee of the then-popular Social Darwinist belief in eugenics, which
prescribed the elimination through abortion, contraception and sterilization of
what its proponents regarded as those people who were inferior. Even those most of his victims were black,
Gosnell’s defense nevertheless claimed he was targeted for prosecution by
racist prosecutors because he was black.
The case also exposed the fine line
between abortion and infanticide, particularly for late-term abortions. Whereas the same practice a moment before is
protected by federal case law as a “fundamental” constitutional right, in the
next moment it is murder under state law.
The dilation and extraction method, known as “partial-birth abortion,”
which was banned by the federal government under President George W. Bush,
particularly blurred the line, as the baby’s body was extracted while leaving
the head in the birth canal specifically in order to circumvent the charge of
infanticide. Moreover, some abortion
advocates have denied the personhood not only for embryos, fetuses and
partially-born babies, but even for children born alive. They have called for the legalization of
infanticide for up to two years after birth.
The gruesome practices in the
Gosnell abortion clinic that were allowed to continue unregulated, the
targeting of certain groups for abortion, and the exposure of the barbarism of
the practice of all abortions, especially late-term abortions on babies who
would be viable outside the womb, underscore that this case is not strictly a
matter of a rogue abortionist, but strikes at the core of what abortion really is.
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