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ARTICLE TITLE: The Serial Killer You
Don’t Know: Kermit Gosnell
DATE: Friday May 9, 2014
AUTHOR: Lila Rose
AUTHOR
INFORMATION: Lila
Rose has dedicated herself to ending abortion and building the culture of life.
At age fifteen, Lila founded Live
Action, a nonprofit which specializes in investigative journalism, media
and youth education. Live Action works to expose abuses in the abortion
industry and advocate for human rights for the pre-born, using new media to
educate and mobilize both local and national audiences. Live Action also hosts
the leading social media presence for the pro-life movement, reaching over a
million people a week, as well as the leading national pro-life student
magazine, The Advocate, and one of the leading pro-life news sites,
liveactionnews.org. Lila has led numerous undercover investigations exposing
corruption and illegal activity at Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest
abortion chain, as well as dozens of other independent abortion clinics. Her
work has documented rampant sexual abuse cover up, racism, medical
misinformation, the willingness to assist sex traffickers, false statements
made by Planned Parenthood executives, sex-selective abortion and infanticide.
If
what the media publishes daily is any indicator, Americans seem fascinated by
killers.
We’re
confronted with headlines about Oscar Pistorius, Amanda Knox, and Jodi Arias. When the news is slow, Americans can change the
channel to procedurals like “Law and Order: SVU” and “Criminal Minds.” And when
the procedurals lag, producers and directors come up with serial
killer-glorifying programs like “Dexter” (just finished its eighth season last
year) and “Zodiac” (2007).
So
it’s strange to see Hollywood refuse to touch the story of the worst serial killer in America’s history – and to see even
an independent filmmaker rebuffed in his efforts to pick up the slack.
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Dr. Kermit Gosnell is
escorted to a waiting police van upon leaving the Criminal Justice Center in
Philadelphia, Monday, May 13, 2013, after being convicted of first-degree
murder in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed
with scissors at his clinic. Credit: AP
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Philadelphia
abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted in 2013 for the murder of three born
babies, whose spines he severed with scissors after delivery, and the deaths by
gross negligence of two mothers. He was also convicted for killing 21 babies in
utero – not for murder in these cases, but rather for violating Pennsylvania’s
legal abortion limit.
Early
this year, “FrackNation” producer Phelim McAleer turned to Kickstarter to
crowd-fund the Gosnell movie you’ll never see out of Los Angeles. But
McAleer found out that it’s not just Hollywood avoiding this story: Kickstarter
refused to greenlight his project unless he censored his description of Gosnell’s crimes.
It
was only after McAleer moved to Indiegogo that Kickstarter – who has no problem
greenlighting projects like “Incest Is The Highest Form of Flattery” and “Die
Sluts, Die” – pretended never to have had a problem with the Gosnell language in
the first place. Keep in mind that this same company also rejected the pro-life project “Stolen Moments,” while
approving the abortion-glorifying film “After Tiller.” (One of the “perks” for
supporters of “After Tiller” was “a bouquet…of colorful condoms.”)
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Gosnell was convicted of
murdering three babies and for gross negligence in the deaths of two adults and
21 babies during his decades as an abortion doctor in Philadelphia.
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Why
does a story like this – an “if it bleeds, it leads” tale if ever there was one
– cause such unique aversion, to the point where mainstream media ignore it and
private companies twist themselves in rhetorical knots to keep it under wraps?
Why does even the average “Law and Order”-watching American look away?
First,
there is the extreme horror of Gosnell’s acts. It is one thing when victims can
run or scream for help, as in the Ariel Castro story. But Gosnell’s victims had absolutely no
chance; they were barely developed enough to scream. These infants were
completely at the mercy of their killer, with no recourse from the surgical
scissors on their necks.
There
are also the implications for the “pro-choice” movement. Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the rest try to distance themselves from
Gosnell. (Yet Planned Parenthood is far more sympathetic to “after-birth” abortion than its
press releases would have us believe.) But those 21 babies killed – and denied
justice through Gosnell’s conviction on a mere technicality – speak to the reality of what abortion is.
This
is hard for people to deal with. And it’s understandable.
It’s
almost guaranteed that someone you know or would have known has been victimized
by abortion. Tens of millions of U.S. women have had abortions. Over 55 million
children have
been killed, each with a mother who was deeply wounded, and a father stripped
of the power to defend his son or daughter.
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In this Feb. 23, 2010
photo, the Women’s Medical Society in Philadelphia is shown. Abortion doctor
Kermit Gosnell, who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the
Women’s Medical Society, was charged Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011, 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. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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And
the whole time, abortion corporations with huge media budgets launch campaign
after campaign to insist to the nation that abortion doesn’t really kill anyone
– in other words, that the men and women hurting from their “choice” are forbidden to grieve. So they don’t know what to do with the
burden they carry. And Planned Parenthood, America’s biggest abortion provider,
continues to profit.
A
movie about Kermit Gosnell would pull the veil back from the hard fact that
“abortionist” and “serial killer” are synonyms. ABC, CBS, and NBC sweep the
story under the rug, saying without any credibility that it’s too gruesome. But at the
same time, many of these reporters stand with Planned Parenthood’s claim that
these are not really children who are being killed – that abortion doesn’t have
victims. And many Americans look away, holding fast to a conspiracy of silence,
because it just hurts too much. It says too much about their participation, be
it active or passive, in a heartbreaking crime against humanity.
In
America, serial killers make for entertainment when they are distant,
mysterious, even foreign. Kermit Gosnell is none of these – what he did has
personal ramifications for every one of us. When people hear that
Philadelphia’s House of Horrors is the result of a “choice” they’ve been taught
for decades to revere, they get sick. Most Americans would rather not think about
abortion, and if they do, they want something clean – not an industry that glorifies, protects, and covers for Gosnells still operating across the country.
That’s
why Hollywood won’t touch Kermit Gosnell, or the hundreds of babies he
slaughtered. This is not a neat little story that can be put in a box and tied
up with a bow. But it needs to be told all the more for that. Gosnell’s kind of
murder – his brand of violence – affects all of us more than a Pistorius or an
Arias ever will. It speaks to the very foundation of human rights and our
society’s pursuit of peace.
Can
Kermit Gosnell be the catalyst by which Americans realize that we cannot build
our nation on the broken bodies of our littlest children? Maybe. But one thing
is sure: we have to learn about America’s biggest serial killer before
we can learn from him. The Gosnell story must be told.
Lila Rose is the president and founder of Live Action, a
new media nonprofit dedicated to ending abortion and building a culture of
life.
Feature Photo: AP
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