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To: Sully- who wrote (35636)	1/19/2011 10:58:09 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Anyone willing to bet that the MSM does its best to bury this horrific baby murdering abortion clinic story?

To: Sully- who wrote (35636)	1/26/2011 12:30:14 AM
From: Sully-	1 Recommendation Respond to of 35834

H/T to Brumar89: What pro-choicers need to grok. I do not normally talk about abortion: it’s a difficult subject, and while my opinions on it have progressed to the point where I am definitely pro-life it is not my top domestic policy issue. But upon reading this post on the failure – no; the systematic refusal – of pro-choice individuals and groups to stop Kermit Gosnell, I feel that I should point out three things. 1. Kermit Gosnell confirms every single dread that the pro-life movement had about abortionists. If he was in a book, his habits, methods, attitudes, and hygiene would be widely derided as being inflammatory. But it all happened. 2. The current visible reaction by the pro-choice movement confirms every single prejudice that the pro-life movement has about pro-choicers. Gosnell has defenders. Defenders who want unrestricted abortion – who we kept getting told earlier didn’t actually exist. Well, they exist… and they’re not being sat upon by less radical members of their side. 3. The media’s non-coverage of this atrocity confirms every single suspicion that the pro-life movement has about the media. Eight formal counts of murder, thirty-three formal counts of illegal abortions – and I had to go to the grand jury document itself in order to find that latter number. Ace of Spades – who is also somebody who doesn’t normally talk about pro-life issues – waxes wroth on this and related subjects; I’ll add that there’s every indication that a cover-up by officials in the state government (including appointees from pro-choice Republican former Governor Tom Ridge) is going on… which is apparently not newsworthy, either. Put more simply: there is nothing in this case that does not support pro-life arguments – including the ones that pro-choicers have been prone to denigrate as being silly, paranoid, and/or outrageous. There have been widespread late-term abortions, in flagrant violation of the law. The laws are not preventing this from happening. The people doing the abortions can operate with impunity. Pro-choice officials connived to let ideology trump respect for the law. Minority women were disproportionately victimized here. And pro-lifers are right to be infuriated by all of the above. I certainly am. Moe Lane Here’s Gosnell’s Wikipedia page. More accurately, here’s Gosnell’s lack of a Wikipedia page. moelane.com **Who should probably forget about future public service in Republican administrations, by the way. moelane.com

To: Sully- who wrote (35636)	1/26/2011 3:18:35 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Avoiding Dr. Kermit Gosnell Brent Bozell Once again, the "news" media yawned as tens of thousands of Americans clogged the streets of Washington on Jan. 24 for the annual "March for Life." This year's protests should have gained more attention since they came in the wake of absolutely vomit-inducing news from Philadelphia that an abortionist named Kermit Gosnell was charged by the District Attorney with a series of murders. In a horrific 261-page report, Gosnell is accused of delivering seven babies alive and then killing them with scissors. He also allowed a woman who had survived 20 years in a refugee camp in Nepal to be incompetently overmedicated on Demerol and die at his clinic. So much for abortion being "safe, legal and rare." Associated Press reported, "Prosecutors described the clinic as a 'house of horrors' where Gosnell kept baby body parts on the shelves, allowed a 15-year-old high school student to perform intravenous anesthesia on patients and had his licensed cosmetologist wife do late-term abortions." Or try the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Semiconscious, moaning women sat in dirty recliners and on bloodstained blankets. The air reeked of urine from the flea-infested cats permitted to roam the clinic. There was blood on the floor and cat feces on the stairs." "If it bleeds, it leads." Remember that mantra to explain the TV networks' fascination with gory visuals? And yet these same networks could barely touch this story, even with its jaw-dropping ratings potential. "CBS Evening News" had one story, NBC's "Today" "offered 50 vague words and ABC couldn't be bothered. Rachel Maddow anchored an entire hour-long special on the shooting death of abortionist George Tiller, but a Nexis search finds no one on MSNBC could even whisper the name of Kermit Gosnell. (CNN and Fox News each followed the story for a few days.) What monster would kill a child who survived an abortion? On Aug. 5, 2002, President Bush signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which stated that any baby mistakenly born (oh, the irony!) during an abortion has all the rights of any other living human being. None of the broadcast networks covered that at the time. On CNN that day, it was dismissed as "a really symbolic bill" (reporter Kelly Wallace), a "largely symbolic law" (anchor Miles O'Brien) that was only aimed "to appease anti-abortion advocates" (deputy bureau chief Steve Redisch). Was it "symbolic" to Gosnell's seven infants, born alive and then stabbed in the neck with scissors? Again, the Philadelphia Inquirer: "One premature infant wiggled around on a counter for 20 minutes before an untrained worker slit his neck — after first playing with him." But the networks just don't bear blame for skipping past this story in 2011. This hideous creature was making headlines in 2010, too. NPR reported on Gosnell on March 30 of last year, when his medical license was revoked. Marie Smith told her story of her abortion at the filthy clinic at the age of 19, followed by a week of fever and vomiting. Smith was rushed to a local hospital, where X-rays revealed parts of her baby were still lodged in her uterus. Somehow, the national media can find no scandal in the state's abortion lobbyists — and the alleged clinic inspectors at national groups like the National Abortion Federation — failing to report these conditions to authorities. How can liberal media outlets who bray about Catholic bishops failing to go to the police about child abusers in the 1950s fail to muster any outrage over doctors and clinic inspectors failing to go to the police about baby killers? No state official had inspected Gosnell's practice since 1993 — and that's not worth exposing? NPR's story typically concluded with bizarre defenses of this killer and the people who failed to report on him. Abortion advocate Susan Schewel claimed "all we had was hearsay" from the women who were patients, and the patients can't go to the authorities, apparently, because "the thought of talking to a state bureaucrat about something as stigmatized as an abortion, it's a low priority when you're trying to figure out how to pay your electric bills." How's that for a putting a value on human life? Gosnell's then-attorney, William Brennan, insisted the doctor "provides family care to individuals who otherwise would have to most likely travel outside their neighborhood." Wouldn't it be better for women to travel "outside their neighborhood" rather than end up dead from an overdose? Wouldn't it better than a filthy clinic that lets people with no medical qualifications do the anesthetics and the abortions? Apparently, just about nobody in the national media really cares about who dies at an abortion clinic, whether it's a child or a mother. But kill a killer of babies, and that's headline news. That's why tens of thousands clog the streets to protest — not just the killing, but the radio silence. L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. To find out more about Brent Bozell III, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. .