Trevin Wax at LifeNews.com lists eight reasons for the Establishment Media's blackout of the Gosnell trial. I have added a couple of my own at the end.
1. The Gosnell case involves an abortionist. Whenever we see news stories about abortion, the abortionist must be portrayed as a victim of hate and intolerance, not a perpetrator of violence and racism. But it is impossible to spin this story in a way that keeps "abortionist" separate from testimony about dead women and children.
2. The Gosnell case involves an unregulated abortion clinic. Whenever we see news stories about abortion, the clinic must be portrayed as a "refuge" for women in distress, not a "house of horrors" where women are taken advantage of and their lives put at risk in addition to their unborn children. But it is impossible to spin this story in a way that keeps "abortion clinic" away from negative connotations.
3. The Gosnell case involves protestors who, for years, stood outside 3801 Lancaster and prayed, warning people about what was taking place inside. Whenever we see news stories about abortion, the protestors must be portrayed as deluded agitators and hate-filled extremists, not peaceful people who urge mothers to treasure the miracle inside them. But it is impossible to spin this story in a way that keeps the abortion protestors from looking like heroes.
4. The Gosnell case involves gruesome details about living, viable babies having their spinal cords “snipped” outside the womb. Whenever we see news stories about abortion, the details of an abortion procedure are to be avoided. But it is impossible to spin this story in a way that keeps people from asking why such violent killing is unjust moments after birth, yet acceptable at any other time during the pregnancy.
5. The Gosnell case raises the question of human rights.
Whenever we see news stories about abortion, the discussion must always be framed in terms of a woman's "reproductive rights," not a baby's "human rights." But it is impossible to spin this story in a way that keeps people from asking why "reproductive rights" should trump "human rights" – or why a doctor devoted to "reproductive rights" would (without any apparent twinge of conscience) violate human rights so egregiously.
6. The Gosnell case involves the regulation of abortion clinics. Whenever we see news stories about abortion, the clinic must be portrayed as under siege from anti-abortion extremists. But it is impossible to spin this story in a way that will keep people from pushing for policy change and further regulation of Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics.
7. The Gosnell case exposes the disproportionate number of abortion clinics in inner cities and the disproportionate number of abortions among minority groups. Whenever we see news stories about abortion, the discussion must be framed in terms of providing "access" for low-income, minority women. But it is impossible to spin this story in a way that keeps people from wondering if perhaps some abortion providers are "targeting" low-income, minority women.
8. The Gosnell case competes with recent stories about states enacting broad laws banning many abortions.
Whenever we see news stories about abortion, the choice of coverage must focus on the threat to a woman's "right to choose." But it is impossible to spin this story in a way that will keep Americans from joining together to enact more common-sense regulation of late-term abortions.
9. The Gosnell case makes a mockery of the faux "War on Women" that liberals fabricated last year on behalf of Obama's reelection efforts. The same media flunkies who seriously pushed the Romney "binders of women" meme as evidence of said "war" are reluctant to deal with the reality of Gosnell's crimes against women and children.
10. The Gosnell case has been ignored in large part because the Establishment Media has been coordinating with the White House to promote Obama's agenda. Since the opening of the Gosnell trial the media has been saturating us with non-stop coverage of the SCOTUS and same-sex marriage and most recently Obama's relentless exploitation of the Newtown families. The horror story of Kermit Gosnell is both damaging to the pro-abortion lobby as well as being a distraction from Obama's agenda.
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