“People often ask: Where was God in the Holocaust? It is the wrong question. The real question is: Where was man?” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Gosnell Is there ever a time when abortion advocates would consider abortion murder? Would women dying at the hands of an inept abortionist finally cross the line? How about babies born alive only to have their throats slit or their spinal cords severed? It seems not, once you hear the unspeakable story of Kermit Gosnell.
There has been a clash of morality over the issue of life from the days that led to the 1973 abortion act, Roe v. Wade. Since then, over 60 million babies have been aborted. Nonetheless, the modern-day abortion movements continue to move to their farthest extremes, the pro–insisting on abortion on demand with little or no limits, whenever, wherever. The anti–calling for a complete ban in all cases, except for the health of the mother. Despite the hyperbolic language used by both sides, the simple truth is, for all the talk of women needing abortions for rape and incest, only one percent of abortions are the result of these circumstances. And for all the handwringing over late-term abortions, only 1.4 percent of abortions occur after the 21st week. Yet, the abortion battle escalates.
Pro-abortion legislation in states like New York and Virginia permits abortion after 24 weeks and has stripped protections for babies born alive during the procedure. Illinois has also removed restrictions for late-term abortions. It’s worth noting that most women who seek late-term abortions are electing to do so as a personal preference and not due to fetal anomaly or life endangerment.
On the other side, in states like Georgia, Ohio, and Mississippi, heartbeat laws are limiting abortion to the first six weeks at which time a heartbeat is detected. In Alabama, a new law bans all abortions except for the life of the mother, a bill created specifically to challenge the federal Roe v. Wade legislation which made abortion legal on the federal level.
The Senate recently introduced two bills to protect babies both in and outside the womb. The first called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would ban abortions after 20 weeks when a baby was medically shown to feel pain. The second, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would mandate care for babies born alive following a botched abortion. Both measures were defeated by Democrats in the Senate. A bridge too far, I guess.
In 2011, the conscious world became aware of a man named Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was charged with the murder of a woman following an abortion gone wrong (the second under his watch). Gosnell was a well-known late-term abortion provider who serviced the eastern corridor of the United States. In addition, Gosnell was charged with the horrific deaths of seven newborns killed by having their spinal cords severed with scissors (essentially beheading) after being born alive during late-term abortions. Dozens of other unfortunate women ended up in local hospitals with serious infections from fetal parts left inside during their abortions. A cause for outrage by all, right? Not so fast.
Gosnell’s clinic was filthy with urine and blood-stained walls, toilets backed up with fetal body parts, garbage disposals choked with tiny arms and legs, and jars filled with severed baby feet. Employees were unlicensed, didn’t follow medical protocol, and one even had Hepatitis C. The basement was stuffed floor to ceiling with bags of fetal remains. One suction machine was used for both vaginal and oral use. Any cause for alarm by the Philadelphia Department of Health? Nope, nothing to see here.
From the governor to the medical community, government agencies, members of the legal community, and local and national media, all conspired for decades to cover Gosnell’s sins. Complaint after complaint, death after death, were met with silence. In “Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer” the book, and “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer”, the movie, detail the appalling conditions of the clinic at 3801 Lancaster in Philadelphia, PA. As the trial began in 2013, the media section sat empty. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
In 2019, another abortion sadist, Dr. Ulrich Klopfer, was discovered in Indiana where more than 2,400 medically preserved fetal remains were found in his garage and the trunk of his car. The size of some of the fetuses suggests late-term abortions were illegally given. His abortion clinics were also the site of appalling conditions staffed with unqualified workers. This doctor, who had been in business for decades, is suspected of committing 30,000 abortions.
A video released in 2015 showed top Planned Parenthood executives discussing how to alter abortion procedures so they can harvest organs in one piece. A fetus with an intact head and an intact body indicates a child that was born alive and then killed. A procedure used at both above-noted abortion clinics.
Do these stories reflect the current abortion debate? Where is the outrage over poor women being treated under these conditions? Are those supporting the rights of women to seek abortion okay with the delivery of live babies to be killed later with scissors to the back of the neck? Where is the alarm over medical malpractice and unqualified staff? Why wouldn’t abortion advocates simply try to look good in the eyes of the community by condemning these providers as not a part of their own? Are any of these accounts a problem for anyone in the abortion business? Again, it appears the answer is no. These horrendous charges and following convictions were met with silence.
The clash of morality over the issue of life continues, and it doesn’t look good for the side that continues to callously ignore this carnage. Girl power, indeed.
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