He illegally performed abortions on babies that were past the legal age limit, "four to five times a week." He abused women viciously--destroying their bodies, over dosing them with dangerous drugs, using broken and unsterilized instruments, giving them venereal diseases, keeping them uniformed, and making racist priorities favoring his white customers. He directly caused the death of at least two known women. After any failed abortion, if a baby had taken his or her first breath, he would practice what he called "snipping." In all reality, he practiced the beheading of live born infants. His records, offices, and hospital were haphazard, dangerous, and unfit. Upon many complaints, reports of malpractice, and tip offs, all authorities and forms of accountability had failed. The Department of Health, the Department of State, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and the National Abortion Federation all failed to take action immediately to stop the problems going on with Gosnell's operations. His behavior has been widely permitted, ignored, and dismissed since at least 1979, when the Women's Medical Society was first approved to open an abortion clinic.
The bold-faced lie of the abortion facade cannot continue. The idea that abortion is a saving grace for women is a complete farce, a detrimental facade of so-called women's rights. Indeed, the culture of abortion produces the opposite of freedom for women. How many doctors are out there operating under the same pretense and illusion that they can live above the law? How far will the calloused hearts of our corrupt system go to keep from acknowledging the culture of abortion and its effects? What consequences are we willing to pay to continue ignoring the dirty reality of all our meager justifications as a society?
We
may not want to know. I know I don't. But constantly shielding our eyes from the
realities spawned from the abortion mentality results in the calloused
and crooked thinking of someone like Gosnell. This case asks us to
recognize the plight of abortion on society. It asks us to recognize
that we were devastatingly wrong to give legal parameters for abortion. It asks
countless would-be mothers and fathers to admit that they have willingly sacrificed
their babies on an altar of convenience. May the shock and disgust we
feel towards this man move America to see that the difference between a
child who has taken his or her first breath and a "fetus" is just
that--a child who has yet to inhale the air of our broken world. Can we
please allow this man to be the last level of "rock bottom" that America hits in order to
propel forward and beyond this miserable past into a hope-filled,
brighter day? A day where the battle for life is no longer wickedly
hushed and silenced in our courts, in our media outlets, and
in our communities. It's never easy to say you're wrong, but on this
scale it's terrifying. I hope the women who have had abortions will have
the courage and bravery necessary to seek the truth, recognize exactly what
evils have gone on, and find forgiveness and joy. I hope each woman can
release their yoke and pick up the new, lighter yoke that comes with
grace. The road to defeating abortion will be long and arduous. But if
we can use the evil of this man to help us see the truth, then perhaps
we can collectively begin that journey. It's going to hurt like hell,
America. And perhaps aptly so. So let's get started.
Notable quotes concerning this case from the article above:
"'This case is about a doctor
who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he
regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third
trimester of pregnancy - and then murdered these newborns by severing
their spinal cords with scissors,' it states. 'The medical practice by
which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he
overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease
among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels -
and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths.'"
"On February 18, 2010, the FBI raided the 'Women's Medical Society,'
entering its offices about 8:30 p.m. Agents expected to find evidence
that it was illegally selling prescription drugs. On entering, they
quickly realized something else was amiss. In the grand jury report's
telling, 'There was blood on the floor. A stench of urine filled the
air. A flea-infested cat was wandering through the facility, and there
were cat feces on the stairs. Semi-conscious women scheduled for
abortions were moaning in the waiting room or the recovery room, where
they sat on dirty recliners covered with blood-stained blankets. All the
women had been sedated by unlicensed staff.' Authorities had also
learned about the patient that died at the facility several months
prior."
"Upon further inspection, 'the search team discovered fetal remains
haphazardly stored throughout the clinic - in bags, milk jugs, orange
juice cartons, and even in cat-food containers.'"
"The unsanitary conditions were just the beginning.
One woman 'was left lying in place for hours after Gosnell tore her cervix and
colon while trying, unsuccessfully, to extract the fetus,' the report
states. Another patient, 19, 'was held for several hours after Gosnell
punctured her uterus. As a result of the delay, she fell into shock from
blood loss, and had to undergo a hysterectomy.' A third patient 'went
into convulsions during an abortion, fell off the procedure table, and
hit her head on the floor. Gosnell wouldn't call an ambulance, and
wouldn't let the woman's companion leave the building so that he could
call an ambulance.'"
"Said the employee:
'Like if a girl -- the black
population was -- African population was big here. So he didn't mind you
medicating your African American girls, your Indian girl, but if you
had a white girl from the suburbs, oh, you better not medicate her. You
better wait until he go in and talk to her first. And one day I said
something to him and he was like, that's the way of the world. Huh? And he brushed it off and that was it.'"
"Most employees did as they were told, but one objected:
'Marcella
Stanley Choung, who told us that her "training" for anesthesia
consisted of a 15-minute description by Gosnell and reading a chart he
had posted in a cabinet. She was so uncomfortable medicating patients,
she said, that she "didn't sleep at night." She knew that if she made
even a small error, "I can kill this lady, and I'm not jail material."
One night in 2002, when she found herself alone with 15 patients, she
refused Gosnell's directives to medicate them. She made an excuse, went
to her car, and drove away, never to return. Choung immediately filed a
complaint with the Department of State, but the department never acted
on it.'"
"The
conclusion drawn at the end of the section is provocative.
'Bureaucratic inertia is not exactly news. We understand that,' it
states. 'But we think this was something more. We think the reason no
one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color,
because the victims were infants without identities, and because the
subject was the political football of abortion.'"
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