38 Years Ago Led to a House of Horrors

I am a woman. I am a mother. I have been pregnant five times. Three precious children that I love more than life itself are here with me every day. Two sweet angels are waiting for me in God's arms, and I know that reunion one day will fill those two little holes in my heart.

I've stated before here time and again my unabashedly pro-life beliefs. Since my first pregnancy, I learned more about what a woman goes through during pregnancy, as well as how a baby develops to know that a person is a person, no matter how small (thanks, Dr. Suess for a great line).

Sadly, 38 years ago today, 7 men in black robes decided the fate of countless numbers of babies with a death sentence.

And today, a "minor" news story is unfolding. Why it isn't first page news, subject to intense scrutiny by the talk heads of the alphabet networks, is beyond me. Oh, wait, that's right, we need to focus on why a low-rated cable news man was fired, or the ad nauseum coverage of why Sarah Palin secretly influenced a lefty, mentally unstable boy to shoot up a shopping center crowd, or why a lady can't text and walk at the same time. I just checked - as of 4:33 EST 1/22/11, the only television news website that had any mention of this story was Foxnews. The rest - nope. CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC - no mention on the front page.

This news story is about the Philadelphia "Doctor" (I used that term loosely) that has murdered one woman, performed several late term abortions, and committed countless other travesties. Kermit Gosnell ran a house of horrors. All those things that Pro-Abortion forces say would happen if abortion were illegal - dead women, botched abortions, back-alley type conditions - all happening under the watchful eye of government officials at this licensed abortion facility.

There is one political entity that clearly bears some blame for what happened at Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic. The prosecutor found that key employees in the State Department of Health could have shut its doors, but they stopped their inspections, allegedly to suit what they believed to be the preference of their pro-choice governors.

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/01/21/gruesome-allegations-surrounding-philly-abortion-doc-spur-washington-debate-0#ixzz1BnpDFBv1

Elizabeth Scalia is a blogger and editor of a pretty large Catholic website. She has profiled this case with Gosnell's clinic. I don't know how she was able to get through the entire case and write about it. But she did. After reading the entire grand jury report, she sums up in her article what happened at this house of horrors - a legal abortion clinic. And really, if you think this is just a one-off case... I've got some great beach front property in North Dakota to sell you.

I started to read some more detailed reports on this case that I found, but I can't. I can't finish. I get sick to my stomach and I shed tears over what happened at this place. What happened to living, breathing human beings is monstrous.

From Scalia's blog:

Many of the women who came to Gosnell were poor, and far along in their pregnancies They paid exorbitant sums to Gosnell (after being referred to him by who? Other doctors?) in order to be stripped from the waist down and given not-so-much as a gown — only blood-stained blankets that were washed once a week. They were anesthetized by unlicensed persons while flea-infested cats roamed freely. That’s just the tip of this iceberg, but I can’t go on because its too upsetting. The babies who “precipitated” and “fell out” of women while no medical personnel were available; babies being pulled out of the pipes or “seeming to swim” in the toilet. Babies breathing and crying before their spinal cords were “snipped” and their bodies were thrown into empty milk-cartins, cat food containers, shoe boxes. Women who were maimed or left infertile, or diseased or killed. The unwashed instruments, the bloody tables and stirrups, the feet severed from babies and kept as trophies.

Wow... totally unbelievable. And of course, today, our esteemed President of the United States released a statement commemorating the 38th Anniversary of the landmark decision Roe v Wade by saying,

Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that protects women's health and reproductive freedom, and affirms a fundamental principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters.

Yep... Dr. Gosnell definitely protected women's health in the spirit of Roe v Wade, Mr. President. Than again... our President is the same man who while an elected official in the state of Illinois was more than willing to turn his head about babies left alive after botched abortions.

Tomorrow my sweet baby A turns 11 months old. But today, today is a bittersweet day as I think about Roe v Wade and the repercussions it has had on our society and the lives of so many. Sadly, Roe V Wade has resulted in a culture of death. And the seven men who decided that decision were our first "death panel."