{"id":35588,"date":"2013-05-13T19:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35588"},"modified":"2013-05-13T19:30:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:30:42","slug":"apparently-partial-birth-abortion-is-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35588","title":{"rendered":"Apparently Partial Birth Abortion IS Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Kermit Gosnell, is really the poster child for what those wacky Republicans are always talking about when they scream about partial birth abortions.\u00a0 He’s also a poster child for why politics interfering with medicine can be a very very<\/em> bad thing.\u00a0 Apparently over a decade went by between his last health and safety inspection and when his clinic was finally shut down.\u00a0 Even after he killed a patient (pregnant woman), no one bothered to inspect his clinic.\u00a0 You can find all sorts of reasons and bureaucratic hand wringing why this was, but the simplest explanation is that he was considered to be doing good works for poor people so the PA authorities turned a blind eye.<\/p>\n

But now that is no longer the case.\u00a0 In a case that might be considered landmark, Gosnell, 72, was convicted <\/a>of three counts of first degree murder and acquitted of a fourth.\u00a0 He could face the death penalty which would be rather ironic given what he was convicted of.\u00a0 He was also convicted of involuntary murder when he killed a 41 year old woman by administering too much anesthetic. Pennsylvania also has laws prohibiting abortion after 24 weeks, which he was convicted of over 21 counts of abortion of the unborn.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen any of the testimony, or heard some of the things surrounding the trial I really recommend you do.\u00a0 “House of Horrors” is\u00a0not<\/em> an unfair assessment of his clinic.<\/p>\n

The problem this case presents is that it busts wide open a debate we’ve been having since Roe V. Wade, and may bring abortion back to the forefront of our politics.\u00a0 Our president, when he was a state and US senator (and not just voting present) voted down every single measure that might restrict abortion put before him to include strict prohibitions on partial birth abortions.\u00a0 Anyone that watched the DNC in 2012 would have noticed how often abortion was brought up, so expect a lot of push back from Democrats across the country.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not there is precedent for killing the unborn to be treated as murder.\u00a0 In several states there are laws wherein if a person kills a pregnant woman while in commission of a crime the offender is charged with TWO<\/em> murders.\u00a0 There have been numerous cases and convictions of just such occurrences, even if the offender did not know the woman was pregnant, he is still criminally responsible for the loss of two lives.\u00a0 There have been several cases of malpractice where a botched procedure lead to the death of a baby, and some cases where a botched abortion lead to the death of the mother.\u00a0 Gosnell’s case however is unique.\u00a0 It’s the first documented time that anyone has been convicted of murder in the act of committing an abortion.<\/p>\n

One thing Gosnell’s conviction brings to the forefront is one of the central questions of the abortion debate “when are babies alive?”\u00a0 For a lot of Christians, the answer at conception.\u00a0 For a lot of abortion advocates a baby is not alive until it is carried to term and born either vaginally or by caesarian.\u00a0 Apparently a jury in Philadelphia (not exactly a red state) rejected at least in part the assertion that a baby is not “alive” until they’re at the hospital in the maternity ward.\u00a0 There is no doubt that this WILL<\/em> go to the supreme court, but for the time being at least in one state, killing a baby showing signs of life after an abortion is considered murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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