'The answer? Gosnell was a registered abortion provider. His killings blurred the line between late-term abortions and infanticide in a way that embarrassed pro-choice journalists.
Gosnell killed babies of the same age both inside and outside the womb. How can one be a legal termination and the other murder? Pro-choice writers and activists didn’t want to focus on that question…..
Pro-choicers averted their eyes to the crimes of a racist "doctor" who’s worst acts are beyond imagining. They did so because making a fuss would give ammunition to the pro-life movement.
Only in America, you might say. But I’ve been gauging the response of British social media to the Gosnell case; many tweets reek of the same culture of evasion, to put it politely.
Earlier this week I raised the question on Twitter with the Rev Richard Coles, a Left-wing pop-musician-turned-vicar who presents BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and does a nice line in clerical whimsy.
He said his views were “not entirely formed yet”.
And in a second tweet: “Too much brouhaha at the moment.”
That says it all, I reckon. Gosnell was protected not just by pro-choice extremists such as Barack Obama, but also by run-of-the-mill liberals who, despite their distaste for late-term abortions, didn’t want to provide ammunition for the Sarah Palins of this world. So, for years, they took steps to avoid a “brouhaha”.
The results are available for anyone to see online in the form of a heart-rending photograph of a baby killed by Gosnell.
Unlike Mr Coles’s views on the subject, it is “entirely formed”.'
Taken from: Damien Thompson — Telegraph.co.uk April 27, 2013
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