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.
Why the Gosnell trial shocks
The details emerging from this trial are too graphic for us to even put into words, yet our society allows this same unspeakable torture of another human being to occur just so long as the baby is still inside the womb.
The Gosnell trial in conjunction with a Planned Parenthood lobbyist's recent admission that the abortion giant has no issue with this life-ending practice is lifting the veil of secrecy from an industry long shrouded from public scrutiny.
The Planned Parenthood lobbyist testified against a state law that would protect babies born alive after a botched abortion from being left to die, or worse yet, killed. She was asked about Planned Parenthood's position on whether an infant born in this situation should receive medical care, she repeatedly testified, "That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider."
Public outrage ensued. Planned Parenthood later removed their opposition to the bill, essentially arguing that this "extremely unlikely and highly unusual" set of circumstances doesn’t really happen.
Read the grand jury report here.
A young woman who worked at Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic as a teenager testified that she saw a baby's chest move even after the gruesome snipping procedure Gosnell used to end the baby's life. "The chest was moving," she testified. The baby was so large that another worker even took a cellphone picture of it. Prosecution experts, based on the picture, say the baby was well past 24 weeks, the legal limit for abortion in Pennsylvania.
Another former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. "I can't describe it. It sounded like a little alien," he testified, telling a judge and Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury that the body of the child was about 18 to 24 inches long and was one of the largest babies she had seen delivered during abortion procedures at Gosnell's clinic.
Stephen Massof, who does not have a medical license, described how he jabbed medical scissors into the backs of babies' necks to kill them. He assisted Gosnell in "snipping" the spinal cords of babies, calling it, "literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body."
According to a news report, Massof told the jury that women were often given drugs to speed up delivery of the baby so the abortion/infanticide could take place: He testified that at times, when women were given medicine to speed up their deliveries, "it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place."
One day after a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion, another worker at the Kermit Gosnell "House of Horrors' abortion clinic testified that she saw a baby "jump" when she snipped her neck in an abortion. "It jumped, the arm," she said, showing the jury by raising her arm.
Another Gosnell clinic worker testified that she took photos of one particularly large baby, referred to by prosecutors as "Baby A," with her cell phone that was estimated to be about 30-weeks gestation. "Baby A" had been delivered alive into a toilet where she cut the baby's throat.
"Baby A" was described as being so large that his feet and arms hung out over the sides of the shoebox they put him in. Gosnell actually joked about the baby’s size saying, "This baby is big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop."
Prosecutors have cited the dozens of jars of severed baby feet as an example of Gosnell's idiosyncratic and illegal practice of providing abortions for cash to poor women pregnant longer than the 24-week cutoff for legal abortions in Pennsylvania. In her opening statement to the Common Pleas Court jury, Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore mused that the jars of feet were some kind of bizarre "trophy" Gosnell kept.
Gosnell's sister-in-law testified that it was it was part of her cleaning duties to dispose of the large bottle on the suction machine that would fill with blood and fetal remains. She would pour the blood and baby parts into the sink and grind them up using the garbage disposal.
It was revealed that on the night patient Karnamaya Mongar died the emergency exit was found to be locked and down a hallway crammed full of broken office furniture and other debris. Workers could not find the key as emergency personnel sought a way to get their Code Blue patient out of the facility and into an ambulance.
And here's Melissa Harris-Perry on why we shouldn't be regulating abortion mills. These "things" must not be allowed to intrude on our lives, damn it!
