"I Don't Know What Happened in the Gosnell Case"

Daniel Doherty | Aug 06, 2013


http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2013/08/06/i-dont-know-what-happened-in-the-gosnell-case-n1657408

She doesn’t know or she doesn’t want to know?

During a press conference at the Washington Press Club on Monday, the Weekly Standard’s John McCormack asked Texas State Senator and possible gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis a simple yet straight forward question: what is the difference between the late-term abortions you support and what the ex-abortionist Kermit Gosnell did in his Philadelphia slaughterhouse?

She didn’t even attempt to answer the question:

THE WEEKLY STANDARD: The supporters of these bans, they argue that there really isn't much of a difference between what happened in that Philadelphia case with abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell [killing born-alive infants] 23 weeks into pregnancy and legal late-term abortions at 23 weeks. What is the difference between those two, between legal abortion at 23 weeks and what Gosnell did? Do you see a distinction between those two [acts]?

SEN. WENDY DAVIS: I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case. But I do know that it happened in an ambulatory surgical center. And in Texas changing our clinics to that standard obviously isn't going to make a difference. The state of the law obviously has to assure that doctors are providing safe procedures for women and that proper oversight by the health and human services department is being given. It sounds as though there was a huge gap in that oversight, and no one can defend that. But that's not the landscape of what's happening in Texas.

You don’t know what happened, Ms. Davis? I’m sorry but I find that hard to believe. Sure, the media went to great lengths to suppress the details of the trial and invented all sorts of excusesnot to cover it, but the late-term abortion ban you opposed (and filibustered) was introduced in large part because of what happened in Philadelphia. The Gosnell trial mobilized Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill and in the state governments to take collective action. Their goal was to protect women and their pain-capable unborn (and born alive) children from death. As a top national spokeswoman for women’s health, it seems implausible that she wouldn’t have the vaguest idea who he is.

At the same time, pro-choice advocates incessantly argue that late-term abortion bans harm women, but in fact 60 percent of women support them, according to arecent national poll. A majority of the public does too. But the Left’s hellish scare tactics give the distinct impression that somehow supporting a late-term abortion ban is politically unpopular.

It's important to remember, though, that’s not at all the case.

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Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if this senator really didn't know much about Gosnell.

A. Most senators aren't that smart. (I base this opinion on their voting records and the fact that the U.S. is currently $70 Trillion dollars in debt.)

B. Most senators seem to have an incredible ability to ignore facts when they don't suit them. (Both sides.)

C. The under reporting and lack of coverage of the Kermit Gosnell Trial is near criminal.

The absolute horrors that occurred over and over at the Gosnell women's clinic are some the scariest reading that you will never see.

The trial began at nearly the same time that the media was telling all of us that we had to have a national conversation on gun control in light of the killing of several children at a school in Newtown.

26 lives were lost at Newtown.

Gosnell is responsible for hundreds.

Gosnell was also convicted of infanticide, racketeering and more than 200 counts of violating Pennsylvania's abortion laws by performing third-term abortions or failing to counsel women 24 hours in advance.
More:

Authorities raiding Gosnell's clinic for drugs instead found bags and bottles of fetuses, including jars of severed feet, along with bloodstained furniture, dirty medical instruments and cats roaming the premises.

Prosecution experts said one of the babies was nearly 30 weeks along when the abortion took place, and was so big that Gosnell allegedly joked the baby could “walk to the bus.”

A second baby was said to be alive for about 20 minutes before a clinic worker snipped the neck.
A third was born in a toilet and was moving before another clinic employee severed the spinal cord, according to testimony.

A fourth baby let out a whimper before Gosnell cut the neck, prosecutors alleged. Gosnell was acquitted in that baby's death, the only one of the four in which no one testified to seeing the baby killed.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnell-spared-death-penalty-20130514,0,596489.story


It seems to me that the media, for the most part avoided or minimally covered this trial.
I don't think that's an accident or because of lack of time.
I believe it's because giving this case the time it deserved in the national spotlight might tilt the publics opinion away from abortion, which is one of the apex rights of the left wing.
"A woman's right to choose."

It's a debate no one seems to be in a hurry to have so I understand why Senator Davis played dumb.

(We'll assume for the moment that she's just playing.)