AP: “Abortions are typically performed in utero”
As Kelli spotlighted in today’s Quote of the Day by Mark Steyn (also noted by Matthew Balan at Newsbusters), the mainstream media has for the most part gone missing in reporting the murder trial of late-term Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
Gosnell, his wife Pearl, and eight employees stand accused of murdering seven newborn abortion survivors and one mother.
Not only has MSM gone missing, when it does report on this horrendous story, it often gets important details wrong or makes inexplicable gaffes.
For instance, journalist MaryClaire Dale reported in a March 20 Associated Press story:
[Employee Adrienne Moton] once had to kill a baby delivered in a toilet, cutting its neck with scissors, she said. Asked if she knew that was wrong, she said, “At first I didn’t.”
Abortions are typically performed in utero.
“Abortions are typically performed in utero”? Where else are they committed? While it is true fallopian tubes are the other site a preborn baby may be killed due to an ectopic pregnancy, this was certainly not the context here. Nor does anyone ever parse a generalized conversation abortion to that specificity.
The context here was that a baby was murdered ex utero – outside the uterus, after delivery. And apparently in certain scenarios this is acceptable, according to Ms. Dale?
Perhaps Ms. Dale believes, as does Barack Obama, that abortion survivors may be legally killed in accordance with a mother’s wishes to terminate her pregnancy.
Speaking of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, reporter Joseph Slobodzian of the Philadelphia Inquirer failed when reporting:
After the federal government banned the rare, so-called “live-birth” abortion procedure in 2007, late-term abortion providers like Gosnell switched to Digoxin, a heart drug, to kill the fetus in the womb. The remains are then removed from the woman.
Although I appreciate that Slobodzian called them “remains,” rather than “pregnancy” or “contents of the uterus,” it was the “partial-birth” abortion ban that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007. The Born Alive Act was signed into law in 2002.
At least the AP and other news outlets are getting better at calling abortion survivors babies rather than fetuses.
[HT: Wendy Wright, Chicken Man]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
CNSNews.com) – Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist now on trial in Philadelphia charged with seven counts of first-degree murder–he allegedly cut the spinal cords of late-term aborted babies who were born alive–apparently used to joke about the large size of some the infants he aborted and in one case, according to what a co-worker told the grand jury, said, “This baby is big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop.”
If this guy gets off without jail time he can use this on his resume to be head of Family Development Reduction Services in Obama’s HHS.
Or at least speak at the 2016 D&C Convention.
The horror stories of legal abortion make the “horrors” of the pre-Roe days seem very tame by comparison.
I once read of an aging gangster who said that straight people do not comprehend the criminal mind, they just do not think like the criminal thinks. How true. We very stupidly believe that legalizing an activity somehow puts the criminal element out of business. Where abortion is concerned, we only gave the criminal element limitless opportunities for profit, rape, sexual abuse, perversions, sadism, mutilation and killing of babies and mothers…and all the legal protection they could ever want.
Amen Mary.
EXACTLY!!!
I write regularly for TruTV.com’s Crime Library. This story has been extensively covered on that website.
When the feminazis cry out that they won’t “go back” we can agree: you can’t go back if you’re still already there.
Journalism is abysmal in this country, the world leader in freedom of speech and thought…
“Not only has MSM gone missing, when it does report on this horrendous story, it often gets important details wrong or makes inexplicable gaffes.”
Jill,
The word is not ‘inexplicable’, it is ‘in-excuseable‘.
The ‘gaffes’ are NOT ‘inexplicable’.
They are not ‘gaffes’ at all. ‘Gaffes’ are inadvertent and unintentional mistatements.
[Think Joe Biden or even mr. bo-jangles when the umbilical cord is cut between him and TOTUS.]
The MSM majors in manipulation of information to advance their progressive humanistic agenda.
The MSM’s outright dishonesty and deception is in-excuseable. particularly in the case of Kermit Gosnell.
I’m not allowed to say what id REALLY like so say about this sick individual on this blog. Just to look at him gives me the creeps and adding on what he said…Ugh. He’s a sick sadistic serial killer and id love to see his reaction if someone said they would do to him what he does to those defenseless babies …all because they are poor. Well Kermie I hope you get convicted and end up with a 300 pound cell mate named Buba who twists your head off. Then you will no longer be a rich abortionist. Just a poor ex con. Lethal injection is too kind for you. Too bad they couldn’t give you the electric chair.
It might even be different if he felt horrible about what he did. Sounds like he enjoys it. A beautiful baby that someone would love to adopt and hold…and one day have a mommy to walk he/she to the bus stop. Gaaaah how sick and painful to read. He’s no better than Jodi Arias…maybe those 2 could pen pal each other in prison .
Yooooo Hooooo!!??
Those that are proabortion……..any thoughts on this serial murderer of live babies??
Yes Carla, all we hear are the crickets. I don’t know how to write the sound out but some of the young prolifers who blog here I am sure can do it for me. Really quiet though, you are right. No comment about the abortionist butcher, like I said the only abortionists I knew were the bottom of the barrel butchers who couldn’t cut it in private practice delivering live babies, so they decided to specialize in dead ones. Gosnell found out that performing late term abortions means you will deliver some live ones once in a while, it is inevitable because some babies are fighters and will fight for their life no matter what you do to them (Gianna comes to mind). So he decided to make a game out of it, cut their spinal cords, play with the babies before they died occasionally and cut off their feet for “show and tell”. You talk about a sick son-of-a-gun. But as you can see the pro-aborts have nothing to say not one word, which makes them sick too. Kind of reminds me of BHO justifing not voting for BAIPA not once, not twice but three times. “Every woman who pays for a dead baby deserves to get one, it is just too much of a burden on the woman and doctor for a baby who survives a botched abortion to get treatment” (my paraphrase but it’s the gist of what he said). “Die, baby die”.
To all the proaborts who visit here, a question for you, one that is rather open-ended…
Where, in your estimation, did Gosnell go wrong? Or do you think he did nothing wrong?
Gosnell is a nasty pig!
He has control over life and death over tiny babies who can’t fight back. Yeah well God in heaven had control over your life Gosnell so repent or id love to see you begging for ice water in the lake of fire for eternity !! ….oops God has control not had….but it’s obvious which master you choose to serve.
Hi PLL,
Always good to see you here. You’re right about the bottom of the barrel. Even though some of these same doctors who hold the abortionist in such disdain wouldn’t hesitate to send a pregnant mistress or daughter to the abortionist. If hospital gossip is to be believed a doctor who was a member of the local right to life group sent his mistress. I’m sure our local abortionist, who always practiced in his office pre Roe, and only continued to do so post Roe, is protecting the secrets of many a prominent citizen.
Interestingly, he was interviewed and questioned about doing abortions. He gave the ridiculous excuse that because of patient confidentiality, he can’t verify if he does abortions. He’s also a practicing OB/GYN. Uh, excuse me doc, but doctors list their specialities and services in the phone book and on their office doors all the time. No one is asking you to name patients, just verify that you perform a certain “service”. Its not like the whole city doesn’t already know, so aren’t you proud of this great “service” you’ve performed for years?
There are things that while tolerated, will always be looked down on. Abortionists are one of them.
Breaks my heart that i can’t stop this…breaks my heart that people support this.
Anyone who supports this should have to stand and watch the procedure. If they are still okay with it then they also fit the category of a sociopath
Jodi Arias would have made a great abortionist. Sociopath with no remorse…cut the guys throat stabbed him over 27 times. Shot him in the head. Her attitude …oh well! Why should she be locked up but not Kermit?? God in heaven how can anyone in their right mind support this?
Hi Heather,
It should be obvious. Arias is a killer, Gosnell is helping a woman exercise her right to choose.
There’s a big difference. Just don’t ask me what it is.
Ah…
The silence of the proaborts. Holy Week is bearing down on us and I gave you all the opening to come out of your rat holes in all of your satanic splendor and revel in the deeds of your filthy high priest, Dr. Kermit Gosnell.
It’s actually a hopeful sign that you did not. Perhaps there is enough goodness left in your hearts that the voice of the Holy Spirit grabs hold and stills your tongues? As Holy Week begins, perhaps you can pick up a copy of The Passion of the Christ and see your redemption.
Then claim it. It’s never too late.
You mean Gosnell is not a hero like Tiller?
Nobody has started the I Am Gosnell website with photos of supporters of this barbarism? With their faces covered?
Come onnnnnnnnn.
Hi Carla,
I’ve been waiting for Rachel Madcow to do a puff piece on Gosnell like she did on Tiller.
Maybe a documentary called ”The Prosecution of Dr.Gosnell” where Rachel can lament the loss of another abortionist.
Well, PZ Myers (who once compared earning multiple PhDs to keeping the training wheels on your bike for too long) had this to say back in 2011:
He has a point. If it’s murder to kill a baby delivered alive after an unsuccessful abortion, why isn’t it murder if the killing is done in-utero, “humanely”, and in a proper reproductive health centre?
Interestingly, the posts about Gosnell appear to have been removed from his blogs…
Navi,
I agree that it’s murder no matter where the baby resides, b ut these charges against Gosnell force the pro-aborts to confront their own standards. The constitutional “right” in Roe was the right of the woman to control her own body. A baby attached to an umbilical cord places the murder of that child into a different category, making an infant unmurdered and simply a removed appendage from the body of the woman.
Even in that depraved frame of reference there needs to be some standard of decency, and when it is that the baby escapes the womb alive a birth has occurred and the cord needs to be cut anyway. Thus the slaughter of a human being is properly returned to designation in jurisprudence:
Infanticide.
Would that the other side could learn from the Gosnell case. I believe they would and could, which explains the media blackout surrrounding his trial.
Media blackout? Or, “Poor, poor, pitiful me” ala Newsbusters.
Why doesn’t Brent Bozell, who settled a libel suit with WWE years ago, start his own real network?
The silence of pro-abortionists to these horrors is entirely understandable, because the Gosnell case exposes abortion and the abortion industry for what it really is–a horrific waste of life and a great evil. The jars of baby feet, the unsanitary conditions and the grisly descriptions and acts of murder only hold real horror if aborting babies is horrible in the first place. The Gosnell case and others like it are an inconvenient truth for pro-abortionists.
“any thoughts on this alleged serial murderer” – not until I know what actually took place.
“Where, in your estimation, did Gosnell go wrong? Or do you think he did nothing wrong” – I’ll let you know if and when the full details emerge.
“The silence of the proaborts.” – well rather than clambour hysterically all over it…
“Holy Week is bearing down on us and I gave you all the opening to come out of your rat holes in all of your satanic splendor and revel in the deeds of your filthy high priest, Dr. Kermit Gosnell.” – small problem for you there. Holy week holds no meaning. Rat hole is your wishful aspersion. There is no satan, nor any high priests.
“the Holy Spirit grabs hold and stills your tongues?” – none of that either.
“As Holy Week begins, perhaps you can pick up a copy of The Passion of the Christ and see your redemption.” – I’m currently reading ‘Good Omens’ by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen, its a very funny book. I recommend it.
“Then claim it. It’s never too late.” – claim what? A free copy of ‘The Passion of the Christ’?
If he did what is alleged then he broke the law. If he is found guilty of what is alleged then he will be punished. Preferably not by some nutjob shooting him in the street in the name of ‘citizens action’.
I’m mildly perplexed that you would think we don’t all have standards Courtnay. They differ, but we all have them.
If he broke the law of the land then he must accept the subsequent consequences.
Reality do you object to someone stabbing you in your skull with scissors? If not why not? Would you pee your pants in fear or just lay there and not put up a fight. I’m sure you can advocate death for others so long as it’s not your life. In Cleveland we call men like you a female anatomy part. But here I have to stick with the clean language of coward.
Reality I could just see u running like a scared rabbit from Cleveland boys. Admit it you don’t give a rats behind that Gosnell did what he did. Just kill those little monsters and get them outta your site right? But you talk a good game hiding behind your computer.
Thank you for your sweet remarks Heather, from behind whatever device it is that you use to make such vauous insults based on your imagination.
I no longer have the physical capacity to actually run, so I guess I’d just have to deal with them Cleveland boys in another way. Sounds like a lot of Cleveland fokes are a little ‘sub-par’ so it shouldn’t be too difficult :-)
Cleveland is pretty tough. Haha i could just see you now
Why dont you do your own reality show…reality takes Cleveland and Detroit!:)
Unless you intend to base your life on the fictional tales coursing through your mind Heather (*), I suggest you try regaining your grip on reality.
(*) – quick, write them down, I can see you becoming a very successful writer of fiction!
Wow what a zinger! Ouch.
There is no name calling allowed.
Come on you two, let’s get back on topic here.
“Where, in your estimation, did Gosnell go wrong? Or do you think he did nothing wrong”
(Who’s) Reality responded–”I’ll let you know if and when the full details emerge.”
The full details behind this case are already available in the Grand Jury report: http://www.phila.gov/DistrictAttorney/PDFs/GrandJuryWomensMedical.pdf
although I recommend setting aside at least couple of hours to get through it, as it’s pretty detailed and a long read. Methinks even with the details available and starring at you in the face, you’re being purposely obtuse and preferring to look the other direction.
At Crime Library, there is no media blackout of this story. It was there that I learned that there was blood on the walls and floors of the Gosnell clinic. Regarding the reason so many were born alive: he and his employees routinely fudged the results of the sonograms to both the women and in official records so it would look like 2nd trimester when they were in the 3rd trimester. Gosnell also used instruments from one patient to another without sterilizing them so diseases were transmitted from one patient to another. A flea-infested cat had the run of the place and left feces on the floors. Visit TruTV.com’s Crime Library. The case is very well-covered.
Where did he go wrong???
Let’s start with the severed baby feet in the jar, shall we?
Courtnay says:
March 23, 2013 at 5:51 pm
Where did he go wrong???Let’s start with the severed baby feet in the jar, shall we?
(Denise) I’ve already explained. They were souvenirs.
“I’ve already explained. They were souvenirs.”
Huh? What does that have to do with the fact it’s something he did wrong?
JDC says:
March 23, 2013 at 6:59 pm
“I’ve already explained. They were souvenirs.”Huh? What does that have to do with the fact it’s something he did wrong?
(Denise) It underlines it. I’m a true crime writer. Serial murderers typically keep souvenirs. These could be either body parts or belongings of the victims. The feet were Gosnell’s souvenirs. He enjoyed his work.