PA abortionist says he cannot afford a lawyer ,may face a capital murder case

Dr. Gosnell of  the House of Horrors in Philly said he and his wife could not afford a lawyer despite his large real estate holdings. The judge denied his plea for free representation saying he had assets in the millions. They are also considering whether  this will be a capital murder case. Gosnell must be confused. He is literally allowed to get away with murder for years and now they are throwing the book at him.

Does the size of the baby make the abortion more or less gruesome

Blogger for Red State posts this as while reading  through the long gut wrenching testimony of the Grand Jury indictment of Dr. Gosnell in Philadelphia.  Heartlander  recalls a conference on the issue of "reproductive rights" where one statement continues to stand out.

"Finally, one pert young lady stood up and ended the debate by saying — and it made such a huge impression on me that 19 years later, I can still quote her word for word from memory — “Look. We all know that abortion kills a baby. But that’s not the issue. The issue is women’s lives.”

But the real issue Heartlander is struggling with the lateness of the abortion. Who waits until they are 7 mos. pregnant to get an abortion? Is Heartlander  struggling with the size of the preborn baby dying?  That is what typically happens. Everyone is disgusted with late term abortions because it looks so much more like a baby and of course the method of killing and disposal  is gruesome. But with a smaller version, it is quicker and easier  to dispose of  the remains.
Dismembering a first trimester baby is just as horrible so let's not get carried away with size. As Scott Klusendorf's teaches us size, level of development, environment and degree of dependence. That is what we are discussing. Is is less horrible if she is small, not able to survive outside of the womb yet, inside the womb totally.... instead of half out and half in and totally dependent on mother.
Let's examine our well founded disgust and translate that to all abortions.

PA:"ensuring fetal demise" Where is the outrage at the oversight agencies?

This a long but excellent read by Life Training Institute  on the outrage of the events being publicized by the grand jury indictment of Dr. Gosnell in PA and the attempts by the abortion industry to down play this. What LTI clearly informs us that the very agencies charged with oversight are complicit in these murders as they deliberately ignored and refused to get involved because of  the concern that they may interfere with a woman's right to abortion. How can they sleep at night? I note that NARAL recently graded the state of PA as a D and complained of too many regulations around abortions!! 

LTI notes that the regulatory agencies have lawyered up to protect their butts and how having a pro abortion governor  contributed to this atrocity  by refusing to take action....they are complicit. So when someone says they are pro life but don't want to get involved in politics...let me tell you this is what you allow. I have been around the block and seen much but this grand jury report complete with pictures was more than I could stand. While Naral only regrets the deaths of the mothers,  the birthing of babies live and slitting their necks and comparing the writhing dying babies to chickens with their necks cut off is more than I can stand. The saving of the feet of the babies as in a foot fetus reeks of insanity but as LTI points out he had a staff doing this as well. Were they all insane? Here are some excerpts:

"Not even when an organization that supposedly operates to protect the rights of women to have safe abortions walked in the door, evaluated the practice, and determined it to be the worst abortion facility they had have ever seen. They all knew something bad was happening and all of them did nothing to stop it.

Pennsylvania is not a third-world country. There were several oversight agencies that stumbled upon and should have shut down Kermit Gosnell long ago. But none of them did, not even after Karnamaya Mongar’s death. 

Per the report, they issued a license in 1979 to perform abortions, showed up for on-sight inspections in 1989 (10 YEARS LATER!!), 1992, and 1993. Every visit produced violations and in every instance he was allowed to continue as long as he promised to “fix it.” But in 1993 all sight inspections stopped so no follow up was done. Why? Page 9:

Instead, the Pennsylvania Department of Health abruptly decided, for political reasons, to stop inspecting abortion clinics at all. The politics in question were not anti-abortion, but pro. With the change of administration from Governor Casey to Governor Ridge, officials concluded that inspections would be “putting a barrier up to women” seeking abortions. Better to leave clinics to do as they pleased, even though, as Gosnell proved, that meant both women and babies would pay. 

A doctor from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia hand-delivered a complaint, advising the department that numerous patients he had referred for abortions came back from Gosnell with the same venereal disease. The medical examiner of Delaware County informed the department that Gosnell had performed an illegal abortion on a 14-year-old girl carrying a 30-week-old baby.

Only after the raid occurred, and the story hit the press, did the department choose to act. Suddenly there were no administrative, legal, or policy barriers; within weeks an order was issued to close the clinic. And as this grand jury investigation widened, department officials “lawyered up,” hiring a high-priced law firm to represent them at taxpayer expense.

Philly Dr. and wife:murder of 8 humans.. one botched abortion and 7 babies born alive

(CBS) – Eyewitness News has learned that a West Philadelphia doctor, his wife and eight other suspects are now under arrest following a grand jury Investigation. Sources say Dr. Kermit Gosnell faces eight counts of murder in the death of a woman following a botched abortion at his office at 38th and Lancaster Avenues, along with the deaths of seven other babies who, prosecutors allege, were born alive following illegal late-term abortions.

The Toronto Star went into more detail of this gruesome practice.

"An abortion doctor who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Gosnell “induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord,” Williams said.
There were bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses were scattered throughout the building,” Williams said. “There were jars, lining shelves, with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose.”

 I looked up NARAL's rating for PA and was surprised to see that they received an F.
State regulators ignored complaints about him and failed to visit or inspect his clinic since 1993.