Well, it's pretty big news back there in the States. It seems this abortion doctor is on trial for 7 counts of premeditated murder for snipping the necks of babies who survived his late-term abortions. Pretty grisly stuff coupled with the near-blackout of Statist Media coverage of the trial:

"According to a Pennsylvania grand jury, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the
wealthy Philadelphia abortionist now on trial for seven counts of
murdering babies who had survived his late-term abortions, repeatedly
sliced the necks of born babies in front of a teenage employee, and once
told his long-time assistant (the teenager’s mother) that a writhing
born baby whose neck he had just severed was like a “chicken with its
head cut off.”

“Ashley Baldwin also saw Gosnell slice the neck of moving and
breathing babies,” said the report of the grand jury that recommended
charging Gosnell with multiple counts of murder.

Baldwin’s mother, Tina, worked for nine years as Gosnell’s assistant.
The teenager herself went to work for the abortionist when she was a
15-year-old high school sophomore."

This Guy Is A Monster

Typical right wing propaganda. Using a smear campaign to make ALL abortions illegal, including form RAPE, and forcing many thousands of POOR American women to back alley abortionists, resulting in the deaths of thousands of mothers.

^

Calling major B.S. on that.

The Pennsylvania Government did not perform inspections on the Gosnell Clinic for 17 years.

What's with your knee-jerk 'Progressive' reaction to the deaths of these babies as right wing propaganda, eh? And, the fact this Gosnell was some kind of Ed Gien who kept the babies feet in jars for souvenirs.

btw, your Planned Parenthood bunch has come out in strong condemnation of this monster abortionist.

The Statist Media might, just might be starting to pay attention:

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Kathryn

@kmturner11


One rich white girl missing in Aruba?

WALL TO WALL COVERAGE! Hundreds of poor black babies murdered, their
feet saved as trophies? Crickets"

Pretty much sums it up. This isn't a "national story" because the left views the victims as expendable.

The point is the right wing uses a case like this to further their make ALL abortion illegal agenda and that is clearly a propaganda tactic.

The point is the right wing uses a case like this to further their make ALL abortion illegal agenda and that is clearly a propaganda tactic.

Bullshit...

The point is there was no inspections of this murderer's clinic. Plus, this guy would have done quite well working for Adolph Eichmann...

The game being played is that being in favor or choice for abortion equates with toleration for a case like that. Obviously it doesn't. It also serves to DEMONIZE abortion doctors and clinics IN GENERAL, a tactic the American right wing has been using for years, sometimes even going as far as terrorist attacks on the clinics and murdering the doctors.

BTW, for anyone with an open mind rather than knee jerk calling my view BS, read the COMMENTS on the linked article. They prove my point perfectly.

The point is the right wing uses a case like this to further their make ALL abortion illegal agenda and that is clearly a propaganda tactic.

The left wing covering up the trial also advances the propaganda that all abortions are fine and harmful to no one.

You can't blame this one on the right wing, JT.

The Gosnell trial isn't the only abortion problem being ignored by the media.

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MEDIA IGNORE: SECOND ABORTION CLINIC HORROR STORY SURFACES

by JOHN NOLTE 11 Apr 2013

As the media enters day 257,685 openly pushing for gun control, the almost total national-media blackout on the murder trial of Dr. Gosnell, an abortion doctor accused of murdering seven babies, marches on.

Wednesday, in the state of Delaware, a very similar story surfaced in local media, naturally:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/04/11/Media-Ignore-Second-Abortion-Clinic-Horror-Story-Surfaces

The point is the right wing uses a case like this to further their make ALL abortion illegal agenda and that is clearly a propaganda tactic.

You mean like the left is doing with gun control and Sandy Hook?

This guy appears to be a complete nutcase.

Left or right you can't escape that fact.

Let us know the verdict please when it is given.

The point is the right wing uses a case like this to further their make ALL abortion illegal agenda and that is clearly a propaganda tactic.

You mean like the left is doing with gun control and Sandy Hook?

Imagine that.

This Statist Media that goes out of its way not to report any bad news that doesn't fit their progressive agenda. Doesn't fit the pro-choice narrative to report these types of stories, eh?

The story has been WIDELY COVERED including in liberal media. For YEARS. All y'all are doing now is shameless spin, shameless lobbying to restrict women's rights. It won't work. We've got your number. Hillary for eight years after Obama for eight will take of that and change the supreme court for like ... FOREVER.

http://www.thenation.com/article/158089/dr-kermit-gosnells-horror-show

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20029214-504083.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/16/133806324/pa-employees-fired-in-wake-of-abortion-scandal

The story has been WIDELY COVERED including in liberal media. For YEARS. All y'all are doing now is shameless spin, shameless lobbying to restrict women's rights. It won't work. We've got your number. Hillary for eight years after Obama for eight will take of that and change the supreme court for like ... FOREVER.

http://www.thenation.com/article/158089/dr-kermit-gosnells-horror-show

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20029214-504083.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/16/133806324/pa-employees-fired-in-wake-of-abortion-scandal

Just a little clarification on the three articles you cited about covering the trial.

1. The article in the Nation appeared originally on February 14, 2011

2. The CBS News article was from January 21, 2011

...and (drum roll)

3. The NPR article was first ginned out on February 16,2011.

This thread is about the TRIAL, which is happening as we speak, not 2011.

Got anything from this year to dazzle us with?

Following is an editorial from USA Today commenting on the lack of trial coverage.

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Philadelphia abortion clinic horror

Kirsten Powers 8:49 p.m. EDT April 11, 2013

...from the article...

A Lexis-Nexis search shows none of the news shows on the three major national television networks has mentioned the Gosnell trial in the last three months. The exception is when Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan hijacked a segment on Meet the Press meant to foment outrage over an anti-abortion rights law in some backward red state.

The Washington Post has not published original reporting on this during the trial and The New York Times saw fit to run one original story on A-17 on the trial's first day. They've been silent ever since, despite headline-worthy testimony.

...and...

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.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/10/philadelphia-abortion-clinic-horror-column/2072577/

Fine. Give it more coverage. No problem. So you're all FOR women's right to choose? Right?

Seems that it wasn't only more liberal types who were slow in coming on to this story...

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/conservatives_should_look_inward_on_gosnell_blackout/

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/there_is_no_gosnell_coverup/

Bottom line is quite simple. This character is an obvious monster who needs to be locked away (if he is found guilty of course). But does this story mean that abortion and the right of women to have a choice is wrong? If you want to discuss abortion right or wrong do just that. This 'Dr" is not what the right to choice is all about....

This is just such an agenda driven thread.

Do John Salvi, Eric Rudolph, James Kopp or Scott Roeder represent the "pro-life" lobby"? Unlawful taking of life is a crime and anyone who is found guilty of such a crime is a murderer.

Debate the issue but please don't try to demonise one side or the other with murderous criminals who do not represent the vast majority of either side of the issue.

Well yes folium that seems obvious to you and me but for many it is far simpler to take one incident and demonize everyone involved if it suits their agenda. It seems to me that there is far too little self reflection coming from some and far more finger pointing.

And depending on how some members view my beliefs they will automatically assume I mean them.

This is just such an agenda driven thread.

"Agenda driven"?

Discussion of pre-meditated murder and the left-liberal's ho-hum attitude to it because these (for the most part) were poor little black babies? It's gotten so bad with these people that even the Wikipedia editor tries to delete this monster's page:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/12/battle-waged-over-abortion-doctors-wikipedia-page/

“Let’s just state the obvious: National political reporters are, by and

large, socially liberal. We are more likely to know a gay couple than

to know someone who owns an ‘assault weapon.’ We are, generally,

pro-choice. Twice, in D.C., I’ve caused a friend to literally leave a

conversation and freeze me out for a day or so because I suggested that

the Stupak Amendment and the Hyde Amendment made sense. There is

a bubble. Horror stories of abortionists are less likely to permeate

that bubble than, say, a story about a right-wing pundit attacking an

abortionist who then claims to have gotten death threats.”

The Alleged Mass-Murderer and the Bored Media.

Explain to us why this monster, Kermit Gosnell's house of horrors story isn't national news like Trayvon Martin for example?

This is just such an agenda driven thread.

If the liberal, main-stream media were not largely ignoring this horrifying story, there would be no issue, but they have been - hence this thread. They never ignore anything that makes conservatives look bad, no matter how inconsequential. What about their agenda?

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. - Kirstin Powers

Explain to us why this monster, Kermit Gosnell's house of horrors story isn't national news like Trayvon Martin for example?

Chirping crickets ...

Well yes folium that seems obvious to you and me but for many it is far simpler to take one incident and demonize everyone involved if it suits their agenda. It seems to me that there is far too little self reflection coming from some and far more finger pointing.

And depending on how some members view my beliefs they will automatically assume I mean them.

"One incident"?

This guy is charged with murdering SEVEN live babies by snipping their spinal cords, and that is merely the ones that are known about. My guess is there are many more cases of infanticide by this abortion clinic.

Yeah, I have an agenda. In fact I have several of them.

One of them is that late term abortions be made illegal because of the obvious horrors involved.

Another one is for the press to take on their assigned roles of reporting fairly and accurately and not promulgating their liberal agenda of personal choice at any cost.

Virtually every thread on this forum is agenda driven. This one is no different.

So, if ths is not an agenda drive thread and you are outraged over murder, tell me are you equally outraged by the murder of doctors who provide abortions by people who oppose the idea?

Is not all life sacred if you are pro-life? I think the point here is that your outrage, while certainly justified, is selective. Which, IMO does make it agenda driven.

I would love to see you equally outraged over the number of unwanted babies who are never adopted and grow up in foster homes subject to abuse. I would love to see you equally outraged over other topics that do not fit your agenda.

But its not gonna happen. So lets drop the aggressive tone, thanks. It is not acceptable.

So, if ths is not an agenda drive thread and you are outraged over murder, tell me are you equally outraged by the murder of doctors who provide abortions by people who oppose the idea?

I certainly am. Murdering a doctor doing legal procedures is a criminal act that deserves to be punished severely. I would be surprised if anyone posting on this thread felt differently.

IMO, abortion in the first few months is often the lesser of evils, but I can understand why so many people feel that a baby is a baby from the time that it is conceived. However, that does not change the fact that this horrific story has been largely ignored by the same hypocritical media that is supposed to keep the public informed, but too often purposely ignores or downplays important news items that conflict with the agenda that they are trying to promote. That is what I am outraged about.

Fine. Give it more coverage. No problem. So you're all FOR women's right to choose? Right?

I am sure that the majority of people ARE for women's right to choose. To choose whether to get pregnant, to choose whether to keep the foetus within the first few weeks and such.

But this is about late-term abortion and the murder of near-fully-formed babies before, during and after birth. There must be a limit on term for abortion. The present discussion, as I understand it, is whether that limit shoukld be at 12 weeks, 20 or 24 weeks. Personally, I would have no objection to removing a tadpole-like foetus, but when it becomes recognisably human, then I would have to have long, deep consideration of the facts on an individual basis.

These live-birth abortions are OK with the 'Progressives' - we guess. Just a snip of the neck (like a chicken) and be done with that problem, eh?

The worse problem is lack of coverage for the criminal actions of this so-called 'doctor' and others. What we get is wall to wall coverage of how another Doctor supposedly dissed Obama:

: Ben Carson or Kermit Gosnell: guess which doctor the media consider “controversial.”

So, if ths is not an agenda drive thread and you are outraged over murder, tell me are you equally outraged by the murder of doctors who provide abortions by people who oppose the idea?

Is not all life sacred if you are pro-life? I think the point here is that your outrage, while certainly justified, is selective. Which, IMO does make it agenda driven.

I would love to see you equally outraged over the number of unwanted babies who are never adopted and grow up in foster homes subject to abuse. I would love to see you equally outraged over other topics that do not fit your agenda.

But its not gonna happen. So lets drop the aggressive tone, thanks. It is not acceptable.

In answer to your first question...Yes, I am outraged at the murder of the abortion doctor. I am NOT outraged at the criminal prosecution of one that has allegedly conducted mass infanticides but I am outraged at the lack of coverage by the MSM to further their liberal agenda.

Outrage and anger are always agenda driven, as are all human emotions.

And, for the record, I have two children from adoption. Picked them up from the Methodist Mission Home in Texas at 6 days and 3 days of age respectively. They are both living productive and fulfilling lives in the US.

Explain to us why this monster, Kermit Gosnell's house of horrors story isn't national news like Trayvon Martin for example?

Chirping crickets ...

Still awaiting an answer to this question.

This is just such an agenda driven thread.

If the liberal, main-stream media were not largely ignoring this horrifying story, there would be no issue, but they have been - hence this thread. They never ignore anything that makes conservatives look bad, no matter how inconsequential. What about their agenda?

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. - Kirstin Powers

Not to mention typical leftist projection in accusing the right of having an agenda when just about everything the Lib-Left does is agenda driven with strictly set menu attitudes. For the record I'm in favour of responsibly controlled abortion, but not the avoidance of debate about the topic, however it is the left and the press who have questions to answer here.

Actually this case may be a good example as to why the likes of blogs, twitter and news sources outside the mainstream media are vital as otherwise the MSM does not do a very good job of doing what journalists were once paid to do, in other words, investigate.

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/04/12/twitter-users-force-big-media-to-cover-abortion-doctors-trial/