It will be downright unfair if Dr. Kermit Gosnell is found guilty of murder this week at his abortion-infanticide trial in Philadelphia. His defense attorney made a convincing case in closing arguments that abortion doctors end pregnancies every day, so why single out Gosnell? Perhaps he operated under particularly unsanitary conditions, was singularly incompetent, and committed medical malpractice, but, really, murder?
In fact, the judge in Gosnell’s case has already dropped three of the murder charges because the medical examiner said he could not prove those babies were alive after birth. The murder case against Gosnell rests entirely on the location of the victim (in inches, mind you) at the time of death, not in the fact that the victim was killed. The main difference between Gosnell and other abortion doctors is that he couldn’t get the job done before the baby came out. He tried doing it like his peers at Planned Parenthood --the industry leader which is worthy of half a billion dollars annually in tax-payer funds. Standard practice for later-term abortions at Planned Parenthood is to inject the drug Digoxin into the baby’s heart, while it’s still inside the mother, inducing fetal demise before the procedure begins. Or the D&E (dilation and evacuation) method, which is the in-utero dismemberment of the fetus (done “gently,” thank goodness).
Baby killed inside the mother – legal abortion. Very same baby killed seconds later on the other side of the birth canal – murder. In abortion, as in real estate, it’s location, location, location.
Dr. Gosnell tried the legal methods, but he failed at pinpointing the baby’s heart – it requires skill he doesn’t have to delicately guide the needle through a pregnant woman’s belly into the stubbornly beating heart of the unborn baby.
He apparently also tried the industry approved D&E method (as the severed baby feet found in the jar would indicate). With this method, as a doctor at Family Planning Associates of Phoenix explained to a woman 23 weeks pregnant, “it comes out in pieces.”
Why single out his client, the defense attorney argued, since “Gosnell is not the only one doing abortions in Philadelphia.” No, he isn’t. Ten minutes away from Gosnell’s clinic is the Philadelphia Women’s Center, where they advertise dismemberment abortions through 24 weeks and 6 days, right at the edge of Pennsylvania’s 24 -week age limit.
The grand jury report said that most of Gosnell’s victims were under Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit. But some were older. Again though, the problem is merely one of real estate. Gosnell could have moved his clinic 15 minutes away, across the river to New Jersey, which doesn’t have those pesky limits on late-term abortions (limits opposed by pro-choice groups). Just over the Ben Franklin Bridge, a quick Google search reveals seven New Jersey clinics that do late-term abortions.
Oh, the injustice of it all. Doctor in Pennsylvania is charged with a crime for aborting a 25-week baby; doctor in New Jersey gets a good fee for aborting a 25-week fetus. Location, location, location.
Gosnell trial: Location, location, location - The Hill's Congress Blog
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