Gosnell: Planned Parenthood knew, they all knew
Steinberg said that when Gosnell was in practice, women would sometimes come to Planned Parenthood for services after first visiting Gosnell’s West Philadelphia clinic, and would complain to staff about the conditions there.
“We would always encourage them to report it to the Department of Health,” Steinberg said….
~ Philly.com, April 18, quoting Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania president and CEO Dayle Steinberg
The advent of “safe, legal abortion” didn’t interfere with Gosnell’s back-alley career. The grand jury’s account suggests that other abortionists treated him less as an outlaw than as a niche player in the abortion market. He earned a bad reputation in Philadelphia but received referrals from across the Eastern Seaboard. Many of the women dispatched to him were “well beyond” 24 weeks pregnant, the legal limit in Pennsylvania.
~ James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, April 18
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.
Thanks for sharing this heart-wrenching story. Now if only the main stream media would pick this up to show the injustice that is being done to the women and children…
Yes, they all knew. They sent the late termers, those women past 24 weeks, to Gosnell because they knew he would do the jobs they knew were illegal. They all knew, that’s why bus loads of young women were shipped in from Chicago. They said abortion was made legal so women wouldn’t have to have back alley abortions, but then the industry turned to back alley abortions to get past the legal limit.
The sad thing is that the new pro-choice solution to this problem will be to legalize abortions after 24 weeks.
My thought exactly, JDC. ”Well, if we could legalize ALL abortions none of this would have ever happened!”
Gosnell served a need for the local abortion network, despite their protestations. I am absolutely sure that PP ‘counselors’ offered the number to his ‘clinic’ to women who wanted to get a late term abortion. Just like I am sure that they will inform underage children that there is no consent laws in New Jersey.
And just like they refuse to report statutory rape to authorities.
The bit of new attention the trial got contains a lot of ‘blame the pro-lifers.’
That’s like blaming vegans for an e-coli outbreak at a shoddy meat processor.
The truth is that anybody who procures an elective abortion is mentally deranged at the time and abortion doctors are the bottom-feeders willing to kill their babies for money. Gosnell is just a glaring example of the kind of person who would do such a thing.
Abortions past 24 weeks? Arithmetic anybody? 24= 4 X 6. That is six months pregnant!!!! The belly is already big. She is only 3 months away from a normal delivery. Why in the world is anyone seeking an abortion when less than 3 months away from a normal delivery??????
This is aborting at a time when a baby can live outside the womb!!!!
This makes absolutely no sense.
“Many of the women dispatched to him were “well beyond” 24 weeks pregnant, the legal limit in Pennsylvania.”
And I’m sure all of these mothers were 12-year-olds impregnated by their fathers who were carrying Tay-Sachs babies. The pro-abort narrative is that no one would have a late abortion unless they had a really good reason (obviously in reality there is no good reason to kill a child). But as Gosnell and his staff illustrated, sometimes people (including women) are just cold-blooded murderers.
Of course, pro-abortion activists couldn’t care less that dozens of infants were tortured to death. However, they know that the public is uncomfortable with killing viable infants. Therefore, they have to blame pro-lifers for creating barriers to killing Gosnell’s victims when they were a bit younger (in earlier abortions), a charge as nonsensical as blaming folks who work to prevent the murder of toddlers for the murder of school-age children. As Arnold Halpern explained, “There is no difference between a first trimester, a second trimester, a third trimester abortion or infanticide. It’s all the same human being in different stages of development.” But what does he know? He was only the director of a Planned Parenthood and an ex-abortionist.
@ DeniseNoe – and yet it happens. When people are desperate, they may proceed. We need to help people do the right thing – let their babies live, even if it is inconvenient. We have to help people have hope, get help and believe that life is precious and good.
My friend Yuri Nesterenko, founder of the Anti-Sexual Stronghold, lives in Russia. Abortion is far more common there than it is here. However, he was shocked that abortion would be legal when Gianna Jessen was aborted at 7 1/2 months. He doesn’t believe it would be legal in Russia.
Many European countries allow abortion but place a tighter time limit than the US does with that limit usually being the 3rd or 4th month. Zygote to blastocyst to embryo to fetus to baby is a process of development and that development makes a difference in the complications inherent in the abortion and the degree of gruesomeness.
@ninek: I’m actually willing to go farther than many others are to prevent abortion. They will not “embrace disordered sexuality” in order to prevent abortion. Like everyone else, I prefer to encourage non-sexual and cerebral relationships. However, I also see some sex acts as less harmful than others and favor harm-reduction.
Hi Denise I’ve heard that before. Do you know why Russians have a higher abortion rate?
Heather says:
April 20, 2013 at 9:23 pm
Hi Denise I’ve heard that before. Do you know why Russians have a higher abortion rate?
(Denise) Communism is extremely inefficient. Contraceptives available to Russian women have an extremely high failure rate. There was no widespread stigma or bad feeling toward abortion — providing it is in the first trimester. There was no strong movement to criminalize abortion or much of any sort of “movement” when Communism was in power.
I remember reading an article by a woman who had worked in an abortion clinic. She was doing an intake for a woman who had “an accent I couldn’t place.” The writer asked this woman if she had ever had an abortion before. The woman said “yes” and the writer asked how many. She wrote, “I almost dropped my pen” when the woman replied 32. She was from one of the Eastern bloc Communist satellites of Russia and said that abortion (not any form of contraception) was “the main form of birth control.” [Shudder!]
Even with that, I believe Yuri is correct that the legal limit for abortions is earlier than that set by Roe v. Wade.
Denise I know you’re telling the absolute truth because Id heard a similar story where a Russian woman had had 28!!
The only personal story of an American woman Id heard…i didn’t know her but she was a friend. of my friend was 13 but I’m sure there are plenty who have had more.
Madonna admits to at least 11. Id read her book called Goddess. Sherry Sheppard from The View said before becoming a Christian shed had so many abortions shed seriously lost count.
Let’s get back to the issue of knowing but looking the other way (or even aiding and abetting) in the name of “access.” I’ve dubbed it the Compton-Carr effect, after a Florida prochoice activist.
http://realchoice.blogspot.kr/2013/04/call-it-compton-carr-effect.html
Christina: Excellent article! Reusing disposable instruments and, don’t forget, from the Planned Parenthood in Delaware, the doctor who did not wear gloves … YIKES! Reminds me (paraphrasing a commercial) of an old saying, “I feel but I can’t quite touch”. But when I do I see … EYE DISORDERS VENEREAL EYE DISEASE which lists information about Herpes, Gonorrhea & Chlamydia among others. http://www.perret-optic.ch/optometrie/pathologie_oculaire/patho_venerienne/patho_vene1_gb.htm
One thing leads to another. Looking for love and found lust. Lust for sex. Lust for money. In the end the only ones happy are “Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.”
GREAT post, Christina!
Excellent post, Christina! I wish every politician would read it!
Why do medical personnel choose abortion as their specialty? They might be committed to the idea of “reproductive freedom.” They might want to ensure girls and women are healthy after aborting.
They might also go for this specialty because they just aren’t top-notch.
It will attract people who have a kind of “homicidal impulse.” These people won’t — perhaps can’t — make much distinction between inside the womb and outside. Repeat aborters may also not be women who make mistakes but have this type of homicidal impulse.
Just as it might attract people sympathetic to girls and women, it might attract people with a grudge against the female sex. Such people may regard what they perform as a kind of punishment.
A Kermit Gosnell was inevitable.
It is the same anti-snitch mentality that pervades so crime-laden neighborhoods. To snitch is the worse thing you can do. Nevermind about keeping people safe. If I don’t snitch on him, he won’t snitch on me.
If abortion was FREE this wouldn’t have happened. Nobody but murderers would be doing abortions if they weren’t making millions of dollars. So only those who were serial killers would do them and they would be in jail shortly because their crimes would grow more and more grisly rapidly, just like all the serial killers through time eventually get caught. But unfortunately, we pay serial killers every day in abortion clinics.