I saw this tweet this morning, so that makes tomorrow today:
Tomorrow, speak up for the unborn using hastag #GosnellMurders. If no one speaks (like our national media), who will? Us! #GosnellMurders
— Andrew Walker (@AndrewWalkerDC) April 12, 2013
Just to catch you up to speed on what this is all about, here are some select tweets:
My @usatoday column running in paper tomorrow: PA abortion clinic horror: We’ve forgotten what belongs on Page One usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
— Kirsten Powers (@kirstenpowers10) April 11, 2013
8 Reasons for the Media Blackout on Kermit #Gosnell ow.ly/jZjX6
— Trevin Wax (@TrevinWax) April 12, 2013
Gosnell Abortion Worker: It Would Rain Fetuses: nbcnews.com/id/51434278/ns… via @nbcnews
— Keith Plummer (@XianMind) April 12, 2013
Fifteen-year old girl helped kill live-babies in Gosnell’s abortion clinic. #GosnellMurders wp.me/p1I00q-6jr
— Denny Burk (@DennyBurk) April 12, 2013
Take a few minutes to listen about the #GosnellMurders: feeds.feedburner.com/AlbertMohlerTh… — Nate Claiborne (@nateclaiborne) April 12, 2013
A progressing culture of death led to the actions of Kermit #Gosnell and to our complacency. bit.ly/XGxrti — Brandon Smith (@BrandonSmith85) April 12, 2013
Remember Kermit Gosnell the next time you eat out #Gosnell #GosnellMurders wp.me/p70qM-j7 — Phillip Bethancourt (@pbethancourt) April 12, 2013
Fact: @barackobama supports the policies that allow #Gosnell to be employed in the first place. #GosnellMurders — Andrew Walker (@AndrewWalkerDC) April 12, 2013
If you’re not following @mzhemingway, you’re missing lots of great stuff on #gosnell. Like this:buff.ly/16Z1uLJ — Matthew Anderson (@mattleeanderson) April 12, 2013
I think major news outlets are reluctantly starting to cover this (as seen by the NBC post), but they are very hesitant to frame it in relation to abortion rights. While we may vilify Gosnell as monster, he was giving people what they wanted on demand. We may say his methods are inhumane (which they are), but if you are going to abort a baby after 8 months in utero, there is a very good chance the baby will survive and you’ll have to do what Gosnell did: snip the spinal cord of a baby moving around on the operating table (which is essentially a beheading). As George Will pointed out, if you pay for an abortion you are owed a dead baby, and Gosnell did everything in his power to make that happen.
Like a good high priest to Molech, Gosnell made sure every sacrifice was ultimately successful. But in doing so, he crossed an ultimately arbitrary line that says what happens inside the womb is a woman’s choice, while what happens outside is open to criminal prosecution. We’ve allowed babies inside to be dehumanized, and once that happens, what a man like Gosnell does to them outside the womb is fairly consistent with that mindset. Gosnell should certainly face the harshest penalties the law can dole out, but the only thing anomalous about him seems to be that he was willing to butcher babies a few months later than most abortion doctors and he wasn’t going to let a successful delivery stop him.
As this gets more media attention, it will hopefully lead to some kind of action and policy changes. That might just be too much to hope for, but I can at least do my part to make sure you are aware of the story and can spread the word to others who might be blissfully unaware as well.