Via LifeNews.com, May 2:

Today is the third day of jury deliberations over the 250+ charges the abortion practitioner faces related to killing babies in abortion-infanticides, killing a woman in a failed abortion, and breaking Pennsylvania abortion laws….Fox News will air a one-hour special on abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell and his murder trial Friday, May 3, at 9 p.m. [EST].

Be sure to tune in TONIGHT! The documentary will replay Sunday night, May 5, at 9p EST. Here’s a promo for the special:

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A lot of conservatives are trying to speak out and are rhetorically asking, “Why isn’t the media covering this?” Well, if we had more Republicans who are actually ready to defend the first God-given right of life, we wouldn’t need the left-wing media to say anything.

We’d have it covered.

Thanks, Republicans, who don’t have the guts to defend life. You dropped the ball, again, when you had a chance to kneecap liberals.

~ Pro-life political observer Alfonzo Rachel chiding the Republican Party for missing the opportunity to use the Kermit Gosnell case to expose the truth about liberalism, via PJTV’S ZoNation, April 30

Today, Live Action released the third video in its new investigative series, “Inhuman: Undercover in America’s late-term abortion industry.”

We have already seen willingness by personnel at an abortion clinic in New York and in Washington, D.C. to either kill abortion survivors outright, or let them asphyxiate.

In the video released today, a counselor at Family Planning Associates Medical Group in Phoenix, Arizona, tells Live Action’s pregnant investigator she can forgo having her preborn baby injected (through her abdomen) with a drug (Digoxin) to kill him or her, in which case, “It’s possible that there may be movement as they’re taking out the fetus.” And in which case, “They will not resuscitate.” Perhaps more horrifying is that a baby still alive could be aborted in parts:

Investigator: So if they use the suction, then they – there’s possible movement when it comes out?

Counselor: Yeah, and sometimes after – but it doesn’t – it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will come out whole. ‘Cause they use suction, plus they use instruments…. But Digoxin is probably the best thing for it. That way there’s no suffering. Ok?

There is plenty of evidence that a preborn baby has the capability to feel excruciating pain by 20 weeks of age.

The counselor also makes an interesting statement, “Usually it [the movement] stops on its own.” How, otherwise, is the movement stopped?

When the pregnant investigator asks what to do if she delivers her baby in the car on the way to the clinic, and “it’s moving and stuff,” the abortionist, Dr. Laura Mercer, advises her to “keep heading this direction,” which would be to drive the baby to his or her certain death – unless the clinic is equipped with a neonatal intensive care unit – not.

Mercer describes in animated cold detail how the baby is drawn and quartered…

People seem to gloss over this stuff. We’re talking about dismembering babies. Imagine if we were talking about dismembering puppies or baby seals. That would disturb people. But pulling the arms and legs off babies doesn’t seem to bother Mercer in the slightest.

Mercer also lies about fetal development, stating a 23-weeker “doesn’t even look like a baby yet,” which is ludicrous.

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Live Action’s third investigative piece is currently headlined on Drudge.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Ramesh Ponnuru and Margaret Carlson have a discussion about Kermit Gosnell and abortion. Carlson, to her credit, doesn’t play defense for the abortion industry:
  

  Margaret: Let me answer the question you raise: Yes, we have gone too far. Since we’re talking about what we wrote, during last year’s Democratic convention I wrote about how terrible it was that Democrats took out of their platform that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” As I read the Gosnell case coverage, I’ve learned that late-term abortions aren’t as rare as I thought. Gosnell is charged with repeatedly and openly killing babies born alive. That is something doctors who perform abortions sometimes have to contemplate.

• Rich Lowry’s column is on Barack Obama, Planned Parenthood, and how pro-choice individuals often avoid saying “abortion”:
  

  Listening to him, you could be forgiven for thinking that the country is riven by a fierce dispute over whether women should be allowed to choose their own ob-gyns or decide whether to take contraceptives or to get cancer screenings. One side is pro-women’s health, the other anti. In his speech, the president said the word “cancer” seven times. About that he is happy to be straightforward.

  Imagine if he had been similarly frank about the rest of Planned Parenthood’s work: “In 2011, according to your annual report, your clinics or affiliates performed 330,000 abortions. That’s a lot of abortion. Over 10 years more than 3 million. Thank you, Planned Parenthood. Think of all those women who wanted to terminate their pregnancies and you were there for them. That’s what you do. That’s what you are about. And that’s what this country is about.”

• The vast majority of research money distributed by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine has not been for human embryonic stem cell research. Only $458 million (or 25.44%) out of $1.8 billion dollars:
  

  The amount is of some interest because the key reason that the agency now exists is the perceived need in 2004 to fund hESC research in the wake of the Bush Administration restrictions on federal funding in that area. The restrictions created a national uproar in the scientific and patient advocate community, which feared that promising therapies would never be developed.

• Dick Polman doesn’t seem to understand (or maybe he’s being intentionally obtuse) that the criticism over the lack of national media coverage was for Gosnell’s trial (which as Polman notes started March 18). Polman’s main argument is that various media covered Gosnell when he was arrested in 2011 and somehow thinks that excuses the national media blackout of the first three weeks of the trial. This paragraph is especially telling of the mindset of many abortion advocates who dreamily believe the myth of Roe v. Wade:
  

  In truth, Gosnell is a classic back-alley practitioner, the kind of quack who thrived prior to Roe v. Wade — and would again if the bad old days ever returned. Gosnell is actually an advertisement for why early abortions should remain legal, with government oversight to keep them safe.

  Notice Polman’s delusional belief that pre-Roe was the bad old days (back-alley practitioners thrived) and Roe created the good days (back-alley practitioners apparently don’t thrive) because of government oversight – while he’s discussing the case of a man who operated an unsanitary abortion clinic on a main street for 3 decades and whose clinic wasn’t inspected by the government for 17 years.

[Obama photo via politichicks.tv; Gosnell photo via Fox News video]

by Hans Johnson

There was another incident – the third last month – of a student knocking over pro-life signs from Created Equal. This time it was at Otterbein University in Westeville, Ohio.

When questioned, the student made it clear she felt her First Amendment rights included denying them to others.

WARNING – Profanity:

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You can see the first two incidents here and here.

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[HT: Jill]

Everything you need to assess Obama’s character was displayed at the #PlannedParenthood speech. No mention of #Gosnell. Horrendous. #prolife

~ Actor Ken Wahl, commenting on President Obama’s “God bless you” speech at a Planned Parenthood event in DC, via Twitter, April 28

About 120 pro-lifers attended the “Stop the Killing” rally today, sponsored by Live Action in front of late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo’s Washington, D.C. clinic – only three blocks from the White House. Click both photos to enlarge…

I was pleased that the press came out in force, including CNN, Washington Post, Washington Times, World Magazine, and Media Research Center…

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• CNN covers Live Action’s “InHuman” videos. More are on their way. Working in the abortion industry is likely quite stressful at this point in time:
  

  “There definitely are more videos coming out,” Live Action Founder and President Lila Rose told CNN. “There’s likely going to be another one coming out this week. And then more in coming weeks. So, you know, we’re again focused on reaching as many people possible with… kind of the expose of what’s happening on a daily basis in the [late-term] abortion industry.”…

  Also, CNN repeatedly attempted to contact senior staff at the Dr. Emily Woman’s Health Center in New York. During initial calls, a representative said Director Marjana Banzil was unavailable until Wednesday. During subsequent attempts to reach senior staff, representatives grew agitated and, in one instance, screamed, “No comment!” before hanging up.

• In the Washington Times, Denise Burke writes on Gosnell and the abortion industry:
  

  Sadly, Big Abortion continues to equate women’s health and safety with mere access to abortion. Access to sanitary and appropriately regulated and inspected abortion facilities is simply not part of their political and self-interested calculus.

  The “right” to abortion, as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court, does not give rise to a corollary “right” for abortion providers like Kermit Gosnell to turn profits or to practice without meaningful oversight and regulation. Quite simply, Big Abortion does not — contrary to its apparent beliefs — have a constitutional right to maim and kill women in unlicensed, substandard and dangerous clinics.

• Ireland’s government has submitted draft legislative language to change the country’s abortion law. At least one pro-life group is opposed to the legislation:
  

  Under the draft legislation, when the threat is not from suicide, two doctors must jointly certify that there is a “real and substantial risk” of the loss of the pregnant woman’s life, and that they believe abortion is the only way to avert that risk.

  One of the doctors must be an obstetrician or gynecologist, and at least one of the two should consult with the woman’s own doctor where possible.

  When the risk to the pregnant woman’s life is from suicide, the assessment must be made by an obstetrician or gynecologist, along with two psychiatrists.

[Photo of Ireland abortion protest via CNN]