Kristen Powers has a column in yesterday's U.S.A. Today that deserves to be screamed from the rooftops. The column is on the on-going trial of "Dr." Kermit Gosnell, who, over a period of 17 years at his clinic in Philadephia, murdered babies that were born. Haven't heard of this? Well, the media hasn't seen the need to report it because, for most of them, the issue is a local crime story.
Here is how Powers begins, with an opening that should shock the reader (warning: the opening paragraphs are very graphic in nature):
Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A childscreaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven't heard about these sickening accusations?
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NBC-10 Philadelphia reported that, Stephen Massof, a former Gosnell worker, "described how he snipped the spinal cords of babies, calling it, 'literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body." One former worker, Adrienne Moton,testified that Gosnell taught her his "snipping" technique to use on infants born alive.
Massof, who, like other witnesses, has himself pleaded guilty to serious crimes, testified "It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place." Here is the headline the Associated Press put on a story about his testimony that he saw 100 babies born and then snipped: "Staffer describes chaos at PA abortion clinic."
And the sad truth of MSM malfeasance:
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 segmenton 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 andThe 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.
This is so sad. It makes you want to scream.
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