An Inconvenient Truth

From Philly.com:

"He is known only as "Baby Boy B," a fetus estimated to be 28 weeks old, found frozen in an altered one-gallon plastic water jug in Dr. Kermit Gosnell's West Philadelphia abortion clinic. 

"Gosnell, 72, is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, seven infants allegedly born alive during abortions and killed by cutting their spinal cords with scissors. If the jury finds him guilty, Gosnell could be sentenced to death."  (Read remainder of the article HERE.)

If you can stomach this article, you may find it ironic, as I did, that at the end, the writer is trying to contrast the horrific practices of this baby killer with a more 'respectable' baby killer, Charles Benjamin, another man who has performed over 40,000 abortions. Evidently because Benjamin, (who performs abortions at Einstein Medical Center in Logan and Planned Parenthood's Center City clinic) had a cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing environment, and kills the baby when it is still in the womb, the murder is considered more acceptable. 

The end result is the same: a formerly-alive baby is dead.

From the UK Telegraph, regarding the Gosnell trial:

'Beyond breaking the 24-week limit, the implication of a guilty verdict is that those were not just “parts of a woman’s body” but human lives that Kermit casually snipped away with a pair of scissors. That they only became human lives the moment they left the mother’s body is an absurd proposition: the issue here is clearly age and development of the fetus. Inside or outside their mother, a guilty verdict suggests that they had reached the point of becoming human beings with rights.

' To quote columnist Kirsten Powers:

Regardless of such quibbles, about whether Gosnell was killing the infants one second after they left the womb instead of partially inside or completely inside the womb — as in a routine late-term abortion — is merely a matter of geography. That one is murder and the other is a legal procedure is morally irreconcilable.'

What have we come to, that we are killing our own children because we find them inconvenient.

And don't you wonder why the mainstream television news has been virtually silent on the ongoing trial of Kermit Gosnell.  Even before the horrible events in Boston and Texas dominated the news, I had never heard of this until I read about it online. It certainly seems that a story like this should be covered by all of the major TV networks.

There has been a justified outpouring of rage and grief over the massacre of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary.  What about the others, 'the most vulnerable among us,' who are murdered while we deliberately look the other way and say nothing...

As someone has recently said,  'If there’s even one life that can be saved, then we’ve got an obligation to try.'

To view what state policies are regarding late-term abortion, study this chart from Guttmacher Institute, State Policies on Later Abortions.   Dr. Josef Mengele would have been proud.

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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
    before you were born I set you apart

 Jeremiah 1:5a

Jesus said, Let the little children come to me,

 and do not hinder them, 

for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.

Matthew 19:14

If anyone causes one of these little ones-

those who believe in me- to stumble,

it would be better for them to have a large

millstone hung around their neck

and be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:6

 

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