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Kermit Gosnell, the Infanticide Mass Murderer You Haven't Seen in the News

Mass murder in Philadelphia abortion clinic and the associated media blackout.

Imagine a person who is accused of murdering a woman after a botched abortion.  

Imagine this same person accused of murdering 7 babies by taking a scissors and plunging it in the back of the baby's neck and severing its spinal cord, in a process he termed snipping.  

Imagine this same person making macabre jokes about the killed babies about the baby being so large he could walk to the bus stop.  Imagine this person collecting the feet of babies, by amputation and then keeping them in specimen jars in his office.  

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Does this sound like a new Hollywood Murder Mystery coming to theaters this year? If it does, you would be mistaken.  

This awful, heart wrenching story is happening in the real world right now.  If you think this is happening in China or some third world country, you would be mistaken as well.  

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This actually happened in Philadelphia Pennsylvania over a period of two decades at the abortion clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell.  

The reason you have not heard about this in all likelihood is because of the coordinated media blackout of this awful story.  While the media likes to work within a narrative that feeds a desired outcome in this country, such as gun control or amnesty, this story is so beyond the pale, that their total lack of coverage is media malpractice at the highest level.

Journalistic integrity within the mainstream media is all but dead, as Bob Woodward of the Washington Post recently found out when he went against the narrative regarding the President's scare tactics regarding Sequester.  The media turned on one of their own with a ferocity rarely seen, going as far as to call Mr. Woodward too old to do his job (David Plouffe, Feb.28, 2013).  For those keeping score, Mr. Woodward was one of the reporters who broke open the Watergate scandal the resulted in President Nixon tendering his resignation.

Why is the media blacking this news story out all over the nation?  

According to Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post, this story of the horrors that occurred in this vile abortion mill is a local news story, so it doesn't warrant coverage, and since it is not policy related she doesn't feel the need to cover it at all (April 11, 2013).  By that logic, aren't the awful tragedies that occurred in Newtown and Aurora local news stories as well?  I seem to see stories about those in the local and national news constantly.  Oh, that's right, it fits the current narrative of the administration today.

But wait, isn't abortion a policy issue?  

When the Susan G. Komen foundation, a private foundation opted to defund their grant to Panned Parenthood, the national media howled with the fury of a winter blizzard.  Oh wait, that fits the narrative, sorry what was I thinking?  Abortion is a policy issue, I happen to be pro-life, pro-choice is just language created by the left and planned parenthood to sanitize the term abortion.  

We all heard through the last election that Republicans declared a war on women, though the real war on women was happening in Philadelphia for the last 20 years.  The President, when a state senator in Illinois, voted FOR partial birth abortion multiple times (http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52445).  The reality is what Dr. Gosnell was doing was in line with what the President believes in.  Of course, the left terms it women's health care or reproductive rights, but that is just cover for the multi-billion dollar abortion industry to continue their gruesome practice.  This may shock you, but from 1973-2008 according to the CDC  approximately 50 MILLION abortions have been performed in the United States.  

With the media being as liberal as ever, many reporters don't even try to hide their bias or attempt to be objective in today's media environment.  The result is nobody speaks for the babies that Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of killing as the result of "botched" abortions.  The snipping that he performed, or had one of his staff perform just ensured the "demise" of the fetus.  Doesn't that sound nice?  Good sterile language for mass consumption.  Because, you know, us yokels in fly over country can't digest too much in language from these east coast elites that run the media.  

This story is not about your position on the issue of abortion, this story is about the actions of one abortion clinic in Philadelphia that was a true house of horrors and the ensuing media blackout.

Whatever your position is, we can all agree that this is wrong on every imaginable level.  I have enclosed the Grand Jury report, in its entirety for your review.  I read it and openly wept for the women and children impacted by this monster.  If you feel this needs to be covered by the local and national media, please reach out to them respectfully and ask them why this story has been blacked out.  The answer may surprise you.

http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/pdfs/grandjurywomensmedical.pdf 

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