Gosnell Guilty: First Degree Murder

"Dr." Kermit Gosnell, the serial murderer of infants, has been found guilty.

Dr. Gosnell is one of the faces of the abortion movement, so the trial received little coverage in the mainstream media. The story was buried or completely ignored by Leftist outlets.

It was awkward to report that Gosnell kills babies for a living. He runs a gruesome death chamber. He kills babies born alive during his "abortions." And now, after decades of murder, what some refer to as "women's health care," the justice system is holding Gosnell accountable.

The New York Times does report on the trial's verdict. But even now, its reporting is messed up, factually inaccurate.

From the Daily Caller:

The New York Times referred to three murdered children as “fetuses” in an article about the conviction of Kermit Gosnell Monday.

Gosnell, a former Philadelphia abortion doctor, was found guilty of first-degree murder Monday afternoon for severing the necks of three born-alive infants.

The New York Times referred to those infants as “fetuses” six times in the paper’s write-up:

The verdict came after a five-week trial in which the prosecution and the defense battled over whether the fetuses Dr. Gosnell was charged with killing were alive when they were removed from their mothers.


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Dr. Gosnell was acquitted of one first-degree murder charge involving an aborted fetus.


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Clinic workers who appeared as witnesses for the prosecution said some of the fetuses appeared to move or make noises.


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…Dr. Gosnell kept the severed feet of aborted fetuses in dozens of jars around his clinic…


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…Mr. McMahon argued that there was no evidence that any of the fetuses were born alive…


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Mr. McMahon also dismissed prosecutors’ arguments that one of the fetuses, Baby C, was alive after being aborted.

These were not fetuses. They were babies, slaughtered babies.

Why would any human being want to cover up and mischaracterize the truth about these atrocities?

Soulless.

Here's reaction from Barbara Lyons, Wisconsin Right to Life:

Kermit Gosnell is guilty, and justice has been done. According to one courtroom observer, Gosnell seemed surprised that he was found guilty, and it is that aspect of his cold attitude that describes the monster he is. If sane, moral people had tried to conjure up the most monstrous abortionist alive, they would have been hard put to come up with the atrocities committed by Gosnell. Our fear that he would be acquitted is unrealized, and America is once again a nation with a conscience which recognizes a grave injustice.

The jury found Gosnell guilty of first degree murder on three counts for killing babies who survived his abortion attempts and third degree murder in the death of the woman who died at his hands. The question is now raised as to why it is perfectly legal to brutally kill babies in the womb, but not outside of the womb. In the abortion context, location is everything, whether it makes sense or not. We look forward to the day when the abortion nightmare is over, and all babies in the womb are recognized in life and in law.

I share the relief and satisfaction Barbara Lyons expresses, but I don't believe that America, in general, is "once again a nation with a conscience which recognizes a grave injustice."

In this case, thankfully, Gosnell was charged and convicted.

However, we have a president incapable of recognizing grave injustices. Our nation reelected him. People of conscience have many more battles to fight.