Kirsten Powers
Columnists’ Opinions
USA Today
4/11/2013
Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure…
…There is a reason the late Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called this procedure infanticide…
…Let me state the obvious. This should be front page news. When Rush Limbaugh attacked Sandra Fluke, there was non-stop media hysteria. The venerable NBC Nightly News’ Brian Williams intoned, “A firestorm of outrage from women after a crude tirade from Rush Limbaugh,” as he teased a segment on the brouhaha. Yet, accusations of babies having their heads severed — a major human rights story if there ever was one — doesn’t make the cut.
You don’t have to oppose abortion rights to find late-term abortion abhorrent or to find the Gosnell trial eminently newsworthy. This is not about being “pro-choice” or “pro-life.” It’s about basic human rights.
The deafening silence of too much of the media, once a force for justice in America, is a disgrace.
Read the entire op-ed at USA Today.
Related: Kermit Gosnell and His Enablers
Post Reporter: Gosnell is Just a Local Crime Story
…How is it possible that Newtown leads to a national discussion on gun violence and policy led by the President himself but Gosnell’s house of horror leads to not one word anywhere about proper restrictions on abortion?…
At Twitchy, Kirsten Powers, Michelle Malkin quiz the media: #WhoIsKermitGosnell, where’s the coverage?
We find most of our U.S. news in British papers: Kermit Gosnell trial: Medic gives graphic testimony about ‘be-heading live babies’ at abortion ‘House of Horrors’
A medical school graduate has given a graphic account of working at a Philadelphia abortion clinic and how he routinely saw babies born alive and then killed with scissors
Stephen Massof, 50, of Pittsburgh, was giving evidence at the trial of his former boss Kermit Gosnell on Thursday.
Gosnell, 72, is accused of killing seven live babies at thePhiladelphia Women’s Medical Society clinic and a woman who was administered too much anesthesia…
Update: From Ace of Spades HQ:
- More Gosnell: Wikipedia Weights Deleting Gosnell’s Entry Due to Failure to Attract National Media Attention;Amanda Marcotte Declares, Contrary to the Facts, That Gosnell’s Abbatoir Was “Underground” and Pro-Lifers Drove Women There
- Media Seating Area at the Gosnell Trial
Also, Shaming the MSM on abortion house of horrors blackout
I Hate To Go On and On About Gosnell
But, dammit, it ought to be a huge story. There are an awful lot of other intriguing stories out there, but none of them compares with this one in terms of the level of sheer atrocity and the lack of coverage…
Gosnell might be the worst serial killer in history, says … “Nightline” anchor
