2 Samuel 11:5-And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
Jeremiah 1:5-Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and
before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a
prophet unto the nations.
Luke 1:41-And it came to pass, that, when Elizabeth heard
the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled
with the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 49:1-Listen, O coastlands, unto me; and hearken, you
people, from afar; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the body of my
mother has he made mention of my name.
Leviticus 18:21-And you shall not let any of your children
pass through the fire to Molech, neither shall you profane the name of your
God: I am the LORD.
Psalm 139:13-14-For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well."
An abortion doctor in Philadelphia has been charged with eight murders, including seven babies who prosecutors say were born alive then killed with scissors.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, and nine employees from his West Philadelphia Women's Medical Society were arrested Wednesday. He and his staff also are charged with killing a woman who was given a lethal dose of Demerol.
Gosnell catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women, and made millions of dollars over 30 years performing illegal and late-term abortions in squalid and barbaric conditions, prosecutors said.
"There were bags, and bottles holding aborted fetuses were scattered throughout the building," said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams. "There were jars lining shelves with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose."
According to the grand jury report, Gosnell catered to women who were too late in their pregnancies to get legal abortions elsewhere. Most doctors refuse to perform abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy because of the risks involved.
Abortions after the 24th week are illegal. However, Gosnell allegedly aborted and killed babies in the sixth and seventh months of pregnancy and charged more for bigger babies.
The abortions of the biggest babies allegedly were scheduled for Sundays, when the clinic was closed. The only person allowed to assist with such cases was Gosnell's wife, Williams said. Gosnell allegedly took home the files for those patients and disposed of them.
Attempts to reach Gosnell by phone were unsuccessful. But his attorney, William J. Brennan, cited Gosnell's long record of service to a low-income neighborhood.
"It's important that Dr. Gosnell enjoys the presumption of innocence, as do all defendants charged," Brennan said. "The grand jury presentation is lengthy, and Dr. Gosnell should be given the opportunity to review these documents accordingly."
According to Brennan, state and federal authorities raided and searched Gosnell's home and medical practice a year ago and launched an investigation. Gosnell offered to surrender numerous times if charges were ever filed, he said, but never expected to be arrested.
"The man has been in practice for 40 years," Brennan added. "If a complaint was made in the last year, what about the other 39?"
But according to Williams, state regulators ignored numerous complaints about Gosnell's clinic and his office hadn't been inspected since 1993. One doctor advised the department that numerous patients he had referred for abortions came back from Gosnell with the same venereal disease, Williams added.
Even after the death of Karnamaya Mongar, 41, on Nov. 20, 2009 of an alleged overdose of anesthetics prescribed by Gosnell, Williams said, the Department of Health did not act.
In fact, he said, Gosnell was caught by accident.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Clinic: Police Find 'House of Horrors'
Police officers went to investigate complaints about illegal prescription selling at the clinic last year and stumbled upon what the prosecutor called a "house of horrors."
Gosnell "induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord," Williams said.
The clinic was shut down and Gosnell's medical license was suspended after the raid.
My Christians brothers and sisters. Do you know who Kermit Gosnell is?
Some journalists and conservative lawmakers are arguing that
you probably don't, with claims that the media has failed to adequately cover
the trial of the Philadelphia doctor who is accused of causing the deaths of
seven live babies and one woman while performing late-term abortions. He has
pleaded not guilty.
Disturbing details have emerged from the trial in recent
weeks. As reported by NBC Philadelphia, an unlicensed medical school graduate
who worked at the clinic said he severed the spines of live babies with
scissors in what he described as "beheadings." The man said at times
"it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place."
The debate over coverage of the case heated up this week
with a USA Today column by Kirsten Powers, who argued that the
"horror" of the Gosnell case should be front page news.
"A Lexis-Nexis search shows none of the news shows on
the three major national television networks has mentioned the Gosnell trial in
the last three months," Powers writes. "The Washington Post has not
published original reporting on this during the trial and The New York Times
saw fit to run one original story on A-17 on the trial's first day. They've
been silent ever since, despite headline-worthy testimony."
The call for more attention to the trial has been effective
so far, with BuzzFeed putting up a post on Gosnell late Thursday night.
(However, one writer says the outlet was covering the story regardless.)
On Friday morning, the Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf
admitted that despite consuming a ton of news, he hadn't even heard of the
Gosnell case until this week. Friedersdorf went on to argue that the killing of
babies who were born alive isn't the only aspect of the Gosnell case that
should make the story front page material:
Why isn't this a national media story? Because it doesn't
further the agenda of the media. Kill a couple kids with a gun and they can do
something with that. Kill a hundred kids with scissors and they don't want
anything to do with it.
This IS a national story because it's still going on today.
Nobody will argue that there are a million abortions per year in the US. Nobody
will argue that at least 1% are late term abortions. That means there are
10,000 of these per year. That's almost 30 per day. How are those late term
abortions different than what is happening in this trial? They aren't.
This IS a national story because now this action is law,
each one of us have to pay to support murdering babies whether you like it or
not. And it would be against progressive goals to point that out broadly. It's
shameful that the media has become cowards who spend more time hiding facts
than surfacing them.
Actually, it isn't difficult at all to make the national
connection. President Obama, a national figure unafraid of inserting himself
into local issues in places like Newtown, CT (if gun legislation saves just one
life) or Cambridge, MA (the Cambridge police acted stupidly when they arrested
my pal Skip Gates), defended the kind of actions Kermit Gosnell is accused of
when Obama was an Illinois State Senator.
The infant born alive protection act protects children who
survive an abortion. Obama voted against it. The children Gosnell murdered also
survived their abortions, only to be beheaded afterwards.
Does Obama still think children who survive an abortion
don't need protection? Or has his view evolved on that, too, as he did with
sodomy and same sex marriage? Perhaps a slight bit of national importance to
the question in light of the happenings in Philadelphia now Boston, if only
brain dead members of the media like yourself could be bothered to write the
truth and do so without biasness or political affiliation.
Blog Update:Kermit Gosnell Abortion Murderer receives Triple Life!
PHILADELPHIA — An abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies born alive at his rogue clinic dodged a possible death sentence on Tuesday in a hasty post-verdict deal with prosecutors.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell waived his right to appeal in exchange for a sentence of life without parole. Gosnell, 72, was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's abortion debate.
Former clinic employees testified that Gosnell routinely performed illegal abortions past Pennsylvania's 24-week limit, that he delivered babies who were still moving, whimpering or breathing, and that he and his assistants dispatched the newborns by "snipping" their spines, as he referred to it.
Prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty because Gosnell killed more than one person and his victims were especially vulnerable given their age. But Gosnell's own advanced age had made it unlikely he would ever be executed before his appeals ran out.
Gosnell's lawyer, Jack McMahon, said his client accepts the verdict and isn't sorry he went to trial. He said Gosnell gave up a somewhat better deal early on but wanted to air the issues in court and is satisfied that he did so.
"He wanted this case aired out in a courtroom and it got aired out in a courtroom in a fair way. And now he's accepting what will happen. He's an intelligent guy," said McMahon, who said Gosnell would now plead to federal drug charges that are still pending.
The sentencing deal, reached after hours of terse negotiations, spares Gosnell's family the task of pleading for his life in court, McMahon said. Gosnell has six children, the youngest of them a teenager born to his third wife, who has also pleaded guilty in the case.
"He's a proud man. To bring his young family into court was something he did not want to do," McMahon said.
Gosnell was instead sentenced Tuesday to two life sentences for two of the infant deaths. He faces a mandatory third life term Wednesday in the third death, when he will also be formally sentenced in the overdose death of a patient and hundreds of lesser charges.
I cannot believe there is not an outcry concerning these babies being killed in the manner they were.
ReplyDeleteHere on the internet people get outrageous about a dog being neglected and comments come pouring in by the thousands but this is incredulous.
I have written letters to the major newspaper about this blackout and I've express my outrage to the abortion clinics in my areas.
I am so ashamed of the people I consider my Christian brothers and sisters. I am appalled. You had better not respond to this comment as if I care about your feelings. Take your feeling to the pawnshop and see how much you can get for them.
I thank God that He has restored me and I have been crying for these babies and now I weep for you........
While the bombing in Boston takes precedent and the aftermath of Sandy Hooks and Colorado are still in our consciousness, the media and American people have decided that this heinous murder of multiple babies and poor women do not merit a front page spot or the looping of vital information.
I am appalled at the silence but have reconciled myself to the word of God which states
"(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day."
All over the world people are rising up in the natural world and giving voice for freedom in Egypt, rapes in India, Justice in Palestine, Syria, Turkey, but my people in America are drunk with the wine of the spirit. They sleep and slumber and have been muzzled.
all I can say is WHY???
ReplyDelete109 Do not keep silent,
ReplyDeleteO God of my praise!
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.
4 In return for my love they are my accusers,
But I give myself to prayer.
5 Thus they have rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.