S. E. Cupp: Why aren’t pro-choicers trying to stop future Gosnells?
You might think that the stunning lack of oversight in this case – multiple government agencies failed to put an end to his illegal practices over the years – would prompt calls for new legislation to make it harder for criminals like [Kermit] Gosnell to do what he did for as long as he did. But Planned Parenthood has opposed the idea. It insists that no new regulations can stop a physician who has decided to disregard the law.
That doesn’t stop gun control advocates from pushing for new laws every time a monster shoots up a school or a movie theater. But when it comes to abortion, there’s a difference. For one, lawful gun use doesn’t accidentally or intentionally also result in a mass shooting. Legal abortion can result in the death of a mother, the death of babies born alive and the deaths of late-term fetuses.
For example, according to the CDC, in 2008, at least 12 women died as a result of complications. Are those numbers insignificant?
There are also countless stories of born-alive abortions that occur in clinics across the country. Florida Rep. Cary Pigman, a doctor, recently testified that in 2010, 1,270 infants died after being born alive during abortions. Why oppose bills that require appropriate medical care for babies who survive abortions?…
For pro-life folks, the Gosnell case is horrifying because abortion is horrifying, at any number of weeks, in any kind of environment, whether it’s done by the book or unlawfully.
But for the other side, the very details of the Gosnell case that we might assume to be the most repellent are sometimes consequences of legal abortion. If we hate them here, shouldn’t we want to reduce or stop them elsewhere?
It isn’t intellectually honest to say that these consequences are horrors when perpetrated by a monster like Gosnell but acceptable when the result of well-meaning and well-trained physicians.
~ MSNBC’s S. E. Cupp, as quoted by Real Clear Politics, May 7
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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.
New legislation is pointless, since thanks to the prochoice “access trumps women’s well-being” policy, current laws are being enforced marginally if at all. What we need isn’t more laws or regulations. We need for citizens to stop trusting the prochoice movement to make safety for the woman a priority.
http://realchoice.blogspot.kr/2013/04/call-it-compton-carr-effect.html
Don’t want to derail the thread but if you guys have heard about the 3 women found from Cleveland Amanda Berry is my husband’s first 4 Sons cousin. A child was conceived out of her rapist. Amanda loves her baby. I never knew Amanda but I know her sister Beth.
Miracles do happen. I thought Amanda was dead. Its been a media circus here.
This is a story from decades ago that is still, and powerfully relevant to the issue of Partial Birth Abortion. A heart-wrenching memoir, the actions of the intern warmed my heart, but testify to the reality still being fought against in the courts. Please, read this, and share this true story.
http://whiteknightstudio.blogspot.com/2013/05/partial-birth-abortion-heart-wrenching.html
Because they aren’t pro-choice, they are pro-abortion.