by Hans Johnson
Father Frank Pavone of Priests For Life is seeking the bodies of 45 newborns taken as evidence in the Kermit Gosnell case. When the trial is over, he desires to give them a proper burial.
From Fox News:
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[HT: LifeNews; Jill]
Lest we forget, Kermit Gosnell isn’t the only late-term abortionist hack in the news.
There are several others, including Maryland’s LeRoy Carhart, whose patient, Jennifer Morbelli, died February 7, the day after Carhart completed the abortion of her 33-wk-old daughter Madison Leigh and then booked the state.
Later in February I joined Live Action, Operation Rescue, and Students for Life of America to launch a petition driven citizens’ complaint at StopCarhart.com.
The complaint asked the Maryland Board of Physicians for an immediate emergency suspension of Carhart’s Maryland medical license, followed by a permanent license revocation.
But when SFLA attempted to submit 5,000 complaints on March 18, they were stopped at the door. The complaints weren’t in official form, SFLA was told.
Furthermore, Board members Carole Catalfo and Christine Farrelly dismissed petition signers as “unlikely [to know]… the details of the situation and merely affected by a biased media,” according to SFLA.
Now I’m happy to report SFLA was successful on April 23 delivering the original 5,000 complaints, plus 1,000 more.
This time SFLA members were met by enhanced security measures and four MBOP members.
And this time they submitted an approved complaint form along with the 6,000 petitions.
I wrote earlier this month that Carhart may have a friend on the inside of MBOP – its pro-abortion secretary, Joshua Sharstein.
It was the Sharstein-led board that decided to issue licenses to all abortion clinics in the state, including Carhart’s Germantown mill, before inspecting them to ensure they were following newly enacted regulations. Planned Parenthood of Maryland CEO John Nugent also said he preferred that MBOP create the regs rather than the state legislature, which says a lot.
Sure enough, the MBOP has already reinstated three licenses it suspended last month when feeling the pressure of the Carhart debacle.
So continued pro-life vigilance is needed, as always.
[Planned Parenthood] and the pro-choice movement in general now have the following struggle on their hands: can they offer the impartial observer — who now has read the transcript of the Gosnell trial — a reasoned argument claiming that abortion is not murder?
… Gosnell killed live babies, but what he did to them inside the womb was indistinguishable to what he did to them outside the womb. New challenges to the pro-choice movement will involve this fact, one which leads inevitably, and immediately, to issues of reason….
In a state of nature, sans government, intentionally killing a live baby is still aberrant because it is hard-coded… that mentally stable humans wish to live. Even babies too young to fathom their own existence… are composed of elements designed for survival in their habitat, like limbs and lungs, so just like every other species, they were born to survive. Note that the nervous system is in on it, too — newborns avoid discomfort and pain, and do not attempt to kill themselves….
How has Gosnell changed the discourse? Irrelevant, manmade concepts such as “viability,” “wanted vs. unwanted,” “woman’s right to choose,” etc., now have been widely revealed and understood as “running away from reason” topics — which they logically must be….
After Gosnell, the intellectually honest and inquisitive must accept that abortion necessarily involves the taking of life….
Of course, intellectual honesty is not a requirement, but a choice.
~ David Steinberg, PJ Media, April 23
[Photos via feminist.org, Newsbusters.org]
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
“Expansion of late-term abortion is extreme, in my opinion. It’s not progressive, it’s extreme,” Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos said Tuesday.
Bryan Kemper, youth outreach director for Priests for Life, an anti-abortion group, said he was “obviously frustrated” with the judge’s decision. Mr. Kemper, who traveled from Ohio to attend the trial, said he was convinced that Dr. Gosnell had deliberately killed live fetuses.
“It makes no sense to me that he could snip the back of the neck of a baby that was not alive,” Mr. Kemper said during a break in the hearing.
Instead, Minehart has thrown out the charges involving Baby F, which allegedly jerked its leg after it was born. Another staff member says Gosnell then cut the baby’s neck to “ensure fetal demise.”
Here are some important differences to keep in mind:
[Photo via Philadelphia Weekly]
by LauraLoo
On April 1st The Teenage Life Club celebrated their second anniversary and created this video that speaks specifically to other pro-life teens.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1RiweWWE6A[/youtube]
Keep up the great work!
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[HT: Angela of Teenage Life Club]
I am very concerned that not enough is being done so far—very concerned. When I’m home, small businesses have no idea what to do, what to expect, they don’t know what affordability rules are, they don’t know what penalties may apply…
A lot of people have no idea about all of this…. I just see a huge train wreck coming down, and you and I have discussed this many times and I don’t see any results yet.
~ U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D–MT) addressing his concern over the full implementation of Obamacare to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, via The Foundry, April 18. Baucus announced his retirement this week.
[Photo Credit: Club for Growth; HT: Jill]
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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Testimony from the medical examiner and toxicologist has indicated that there was no evidence the babies were injected with Digoxin to ensure the babies were dead prior to the abortion, as the defense has claimed.The medical examiner testified that tests were inconclusive as proof that the babies were born alive. However, the tests also did not prove the babies were dead prior to birth. Those inconclusive test results were overshadowed by the weight of testimony from witness after witness, who detailed how the babies were in fact living prior to being murdered through what one witness described as a “virtual beheading.”
I believe that the Chinese Communist Party persecutes, detains and tortures the families of dissidents in an attempt to silence them. The CCP will commit serious human rights violations against children to stifle freedom of speech. This is state-sponsored child abuse.
It’s not a story about abortion. It’s a story about what happens when you replace the family with free love that turns out to be neither free nor love. Like teaching first graders sex ed or handing out condoms on the street, abortion is one of the ways that the liberal state tries to limit the fallout from its destruction of the family.
by Hans Johnson
While Katie Stockton was being sentenced for the murder of her newborn, Planned Parenthood was reluctant to admit any difference between babies pre- and post-birth. This video points to the unmasking of PP’s primary agenda:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFDOvjZ8J84[/youtube]Their lobbyist argued that the fate of any baby who survives an abortion should be left up to the mother and the abortionist. In other words, Planned Parenthood sees no difference between killing a human child before birth and after birth. And they are right.
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[HT: Kelli]
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.
