**Just a warning, the Gosnell abortion case is a VERY graphic case, with VERY graphic details. Consider yourself warned.
200 pages of descriptions straight out of a horror movie. Bloodied instruments, jars of baby feet, six pound babies stuffed into shoeboxes. Reading the horrific details of the Gosnell case brought me to tears.
As a staunch conservative, I am pro-life (no surprise, here). If that didn’t already constitute a deep hatred for abortion, add in the fact that I’m a strong Catholic. Being Catholic isn’t just sitting in the pews every Sunday night, attending Catholic student association meetings and it’s not even just growing your own personal relationship with God. Living your faith on the outside is a vital part of any religion. Standing up for your beliefs and the beliefs of the church is a important tenant of faith.
The Catholic church eats, sleeps and breathes the pro-life movement. And as the years have passed, I’ve become more and more passionate about this issue. After five years in Catholic school, it’s hard to see a sonogram of a fetus and hear people dispute the fact that it is alive.
What is the Gosnell Case exactly? Recently, social media discovered the horrific details of an abortion clinic in Pennsylvania and the internet exploded. However, the mainstream media networks (ABC, NBC, etc) were still withholding this story. Why?
It’s no surprise that the mainstream media leans left. Although they don’t actually lean left, they literally fall left. They’re swung so far left on the political spectrum that they nearly reach socialism. A little dramatic, yet completely accurate. Thus, I believe the Gosnell case has been kept out of the media’s coverage, due to the liberal tendencies of the mainstream media. The stories from Gosnell’s clinic would cause anyone to reexamine their beliefs on abortion; it’s inevitable. Exactly what the mainstream media DIDN’T want.
Currently, Kermit Gosnell is on trial facing charges of seven counts of first-degree murder. Gosnell was infamous for performing abortions after 24 weeks, deemed illegal in Pennsylvania. And it only gets worse.
The staff was unlicensed. The patients were able to choose the amount of sedation they wanted. Cat feces rotted on the stairs. Blood was spattered across the floor and the blankets covering sedated patients. Flea invested cats wandered through the waiting room. Fetal remains were stored in bags, cartons, milk jugs, cat food containers.
But seriously. That’s not all. If you’re not cringing/crying now, prepare yourself. After reading tweet after tweet after the Gosnell case, I was intrigued. One of my favorite conservative pundits had tweeted the 200 page Grand Jury report and what better way to spend my Wednesday night?
As I read horrific detail after tear evoking story, I was a mess. The worst were the photos. As I scrolled through page after page, I came to a picture and stopped, my breath sucked out of me. A small baby, dark hair matted to its head. However, one thing was different. Right where the neck meets the back set a sharp, nearly three inch slice. A simple, yet deep slice. And that’s where it ended.
Any chance that baby had ended with that one simple slice. Its first breath, first steps, first word, first day of kindergarden, first day away from home, first day of work. All gone. With a slice.
With the Gosnell case breaking in the media, it is finally time for the American public to take a hard look at abortion. Taking a human life that has no chance to speak for itself seems completely cruel to me. We all have our own views and I respect that. Yet, somehow it doesn’t seem right to let this continue. Especially now that the details instead Gosnell’s clinic have been revealed.
Let’s stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves. Let’s save one more future. Let’s reevaluate our definition of “life.” Now it is the time for change, America.
**Photo by Bill Davenport
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