Steyn: Media silence on abortion and infanticide reflects on America

In 2011, I wrote about mass murder at Kermit Gosnell’s abortion “clinic”:MarkSteyn1

… A man is killing actual living, gurgling, bouncing babies on an industrial scale – and it barely makes the papers.

Had he plunged his scissors into the spinal cord of a Democrat politician in Arizona, then The New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC and everyone else would be linking it to Sarah Palin’s uncivil call for dramatic cuts in government spending.

But “Doctor” Kermit Gosnell’s mound of corpses is apparently entirely unconnected to the broader culture.

And so it goes two years on, at “Doctor” Gosnell’s trial….

… [T]he New York Times’ only story on the case is punctilious enough to refer to Gosnell’s victims as “viable fetuses,” and its early paragraphs emphasize the defense’s wearily predictable line that this is a “racist prosecution.” Instead of my Arizona comparison, what about Sandy Hook?

One solitary act of mass infanticide by a mentally-ill loner calls into question the constitutional right to guns, but a sustained conveyor belt of infanticide by an entire cadre of cold-blooded killers apparently has no implications for the constitutional right to abortion….

Gosnell’s murderous regime in Philadelphia reflects on him. The case’s all but total absence from the public discourse reflects on America.

~ Mark Steyn (pictured), National Review Online, March 20

[Photo via last.fm]

Pro-life vids of the day: Grandma assaulted outside abortion clinic

2013-03-21_1100UPDATE 3/21, 12p: Delaware Right to Life held a press conference this morning calling on the Delaware Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline to investigate this Planned Parenthood for the recent rash of ambulance calls. I (Jill) just spoke with Nicole at DRTL, who told me Rae’s perpetrator is still at large, although police do have her license plate number.

by Hans Johnson

3/20, 12p: On March 13, 2013 at the Planned Parenthood of Delaware’s Wilmington Center, an ambulance pulled up to take out a patient – the fourth possible botched abortion in less than five weeks.

Documenting this from outside the clinic was Rae Stabosz, a 63-year-old grandmother of 12. She was first threatened by one worker, then another woman is heard on the phone near the door saying: “I’ll call you in an hour when I’m in jail.”

This woman then knocks Mrs. Stabosz over as she grabs her iPhone, later giving it back….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rkynAqt1k10

Here is another version of the tape that includes the woman swearing and Mrs. Stabosz on the ground.

WARNING: Profanity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rD3EzV91_aA

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: TheBlaze]

 

Kim Kardashian: Pregnancy not as easy as it looks

kim-kardashianBeing pregnant is not as easy as my sister [Kourtney Kardashian] made it look or as my mom [Kris Jenner] has made it look…. It’s a little painful. I’ve gotten sick a couple times. It’s getting a little bit more difficult [to get around].

I like to be active but, I’ve been chilling out. I took a week off, just to rest and it was amazing.

~ Celebrity Kim Kardashian candidly sharing her thoughts on her pregnancy with E! Online, via US Magazine, March 16

Pro-life businessman purchases abortion clinic with sordid history

imageEarlier this month quack late-term abortionist Reginald Sharpe was forced to close his Women’s Advisory Center abortion clinic in Livonia, Michigan, when the building went into foreclosure – this on the heels of Sharpe filing for bankruptcy last October.

If the walls of this 32-yr-old building could talk, their tales would certainly horrify most listeners, since the structure has suffered a sordid array of abortionist owners. Up-front thanks to pro-life investigator Lynn Mills for her research on this post.

The clinic was opened in 1981 by Eugene Ralph Marra, a convicted felon who, after serving time for committing abortions as a nonphysician, was again discovered during an undercover sting by the Detroit Free Press in 1974 to be posing as “Dr. Mike Morrison” at an abortion clinic in Detroit. Marra hired Ebrahim Fayazi to kill babies, who after all these years still commits abortions in the Detroit area.

Marra’s wife Rosemary Lavelle got the building when the two divorced and rented the abortion business to Enrique Gerbi for years. I recently posted video from 1993 of Gerbi kicking a pro-lifer at the Livonia mill. Gerbi had at least 11 malpractice lawsuits filed against him.

In 2002 the building was sold to Adriana Holdings, wife of abortionist Rodolfo Finkelstein. Finkelstein fled the country to Argentina in 2005 after being convicted of criminal sexual assault of several abortion patients at the Livonia property, including at least one minor.

Sharpe took over the abortion business from Finkelstein in 2005, even as Sharpe saw his own medical license suspended for negligence of an abortion patient.

In 2006 Sharpe’s father, who died in 2010, bought the building via Sharksky, LLC for $365,000.

Sharpe has been sued at least three times for negligence, including by the family of a patient who died in 2008.

Which brings us to today and a series of amazing Godincidences that lead to a happy ending for this sad building.

On March 7 Lynn Mills happened by the clinic when a man was changing the locks, and he told her the name of the bank that had taken possession.

imageWhen Lynn passed by the building on March 11, she saw that the abortion clinic sign was down – for the first time in three decades. Lynn was so overcome she collapsed on the sidewalk in tears and thanks to God.

A man driving by stopped to make sure Lynn was ok, and when he learned the building would soon be for sale, he said he would be interested in purchasing it to keep it from becoming an abortion clinic again.

It turns out the man, Bill, with whom I spoke this afternoon, is a neighbor of the clinic, involved in commercial real estate, and strongly pro-life.image

There was no “for sale” sign up yet, but Lynn, pictured left, knew the name of the bank and put the man and the bank in touch with one another.

The bank accepted Bill’s offer of $125,000 cash.

Bill told me a doctor friend involved in holistic medicine has already expressed interest in leasing the building. He has other leads if that doesn’t work.

But Bill assured me, “There will no longer be abortions there. Even if they offer me one million bucks a month, I will never, ever rent to an abortion clinic.”

Pro-life blog buzz 3-19-13

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

  • Coming Home says the ACLU certainly has fallen far from protecting civil liberties, as they are now defending sex-selective and eugenic abortion of the disabled:

    Having abandoned the protection of the weakest among us and championing the “rights” of those who prey upon the weak, the ACLU has gutted itself. In championing the right to murder little girls for being little girls, and for championing the murder of the genetically imperfect, the ACLU has become indistinguishable from the slaveholding and segregationist class it once despised and against whom it found its organizational identity.

    Such is the malevolent power of abortion to corrupt.

newwoman

  • Priests for Life calls for the investigation of New Woman All Women abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama (pictured left), which lost its license in May 2012 but continues to perform abortions in direct violation of state law. Fr. Frank Pavone writes:

    The abortion industry is again acting in character. When you kill babies, you don’t care when someone tells you to stop. You can’t practice vice virtuously…. The abortion lobby always thinks it is above the law. We therefore call for a thorough investigation of the New Woman All Women facility by the State of Alabama, and strong action to enforce the law.

  • Stand for Life shares a sidewalk counselor’s personal testimony, reminding us that our sacrifices can result in lives saved, even when it seems like no one is paying attention.
  • Secular Pro-Life publicizes a March Madness fundraiser organized by Students for Life of Illinois. Sign up at BracketsForBabies.org.
  • Pro-Life Action League analyzes a pro-choice article lamenting the lack of training for future abortionists and a current shortage of providers. The industry is not united in how to remedy this and is seemingly more concerned that publicity on the need for abortion training could result in more pro-life laws.

    Some in the industry, while fingering Planned Parenthood as their biggest competitor, have still seen fit to join the company in dropping “choice” and “abortion” as part of their namesakes, instead choosing to emphasize “providing healthcare.” Pro-life activism is having an impact.

  • A Voice for Hope joins the chorus of praise for AE’s Duck Dynasty with the news that business owner Phil Robertson, an evangelical Christian, is also pro-life:
  • [youtube]http://youtu.be/aDzgYCg4aVQ[/youtube]

[Photo via saynsumthn.wordpress.com]

Pro-life video of the day: Is a pig more human than a human fetus?

by Hans Johnson

Evolutionist and noted atheist Richard Dawkins tweeted on March 13: “With respect to those meanings of ‘human’ that are relevant to the morality  of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.”

He goes on in other tweets to claim aspects of being human include the “ability to feel pain, fear, etc. and to be mourned by others.” Yet these are true of many mammals. He also states that hair and fingernails are as human as an embryo because they “don’t feel pain.”

Wesley J. Smith says it well:

No, they are human cells that come from an organism that is a member of our species. A human being is an organism of our species. Dawkins is no more human today than when he was a one-celled organism in his mother’s Fallopian tube. Perhaps no more morally astute, either.

“earlysda” put up this YouTube video to counter Dawkins:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EalSRgSfJmc[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: The Blaze]

Rubio: Libs preach climate change but ignore science of conception

Senator Rubio of Florida speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, MarylandJust because [you] believe that life… all human life is worthy of protection at every stage in its development does not make you a chauvinist.

In fact, the people who are actually closed-minded in American politics are the people that love to preach about the certainty of science in regards to our climate, but ignore the absolute fact that science has proven that life begins at conception.

~ Florida Senator Marco Rubio, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, quoted in part by the Family Research Council, March 15

View Rubio’s comments here.

[HT: Jill; video HT: Life Dynamics; image via Washington Post]

Pro-life news brief 3-18-13

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

  • San Francisco Supervisor David Campos is hoping to expand the city’s buffer-zone around abortion clinics:

    A city law passed in 1993 created an 8-foot “bubble zone” around anyone who is within 100 feet of a health care facility, but Campos said that has been ineffective. Demonstrators, he said, get around the law by staying in one spot and not approaching clinic visitors.

  • You know you’ve hardened your heart on abortion when a woman saying she’s had 10 abortions makes you thinks she’s empowered:

    There are times a client and/or companion is so empowered they instantly gain my admiration….

    The companion and I escorted the client down the sidewalk. We were in a line: E, companion, client and me. E started with “Women regret their abortions. Don’t lead her into this place.” The companion waved dismissively at him and said, “Oh, I know all about abortion. I have had 10 already.”

    …It was great to witness these two completely ignoring the words meant to hurt and shame them. They are just words. The antis don’t know anything about the clients and why they made the decision for abortion. I felt privileged to witness this calm confidence.

Kermit Gosnell

  • The lawyer of abortionist Kermit Gosnell is hoping he can convince the jury that the medical standards of West Philadelphia are below the standards of any other place on earth and that Gosnell is being prosecuted for killing infants because authorities are racist. Good luck with that one, Jack:

    Defense attorney Jack McMahon gave the jury a starkly different view of the case, telling the jury that prosecutors are trying to impose “Mayo Clinic” standards on a West Philadelphia clinic that serves the urban poor.

    “They’re trying to hold him up to the standards of the Mayo Clinic the standards of a West Philadelphia clinic,” McMahon said. “If you want Mayo Clinic standards then you go to the Mayo Clinic.”

    McMahon urged the jury to keep an open mind, saying that, until today, he and Gosnell have been unable to make public a defense because of the judge’s gag order on the lawyers and principals.

    The evidence will show, McMahon said, that none of the infants that Gosnell is accused of killing were ever born alive.

    McMahon argued that all doctors lose patients but that the prosecution is redefining medical complications as murder: “It fits their needs, this elitist, racist prosecution, to make this a homicide.”

[Photo via AP/Huffington Post]


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