Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Matthew 19:14, NIV
Have you heard the name Kermit Gosnell? Did you know he is
an abortion doctor on trial in Philadelphia for murdering seven babies and one mother?
And that he is suspected of killing hundreds of other babies? And that he
operated out in the open, under the cover of the law?
If you get your news primarily through “the main stream
media,” you probably don’t know anything about this atrocity. Yet this is a
case that deserves front-page headlines in every newspaper and top-of-the-hour
coverage in every newscast. Don’t hold your breath.
But why bring it up on a blog called “Admiring Christ”?
After all, my intent in this blog is mainly to lift up the beauty and greatness
of Jesus. Not to comment on news and not to be political.
I decided to write this post because Christ loves
babies, because He came to give abundant life, and because this horror story is the
terrible, grisly, unspeakably gruesome opposite of who He is. The Lord Jesus was angry with those who tried to prevent little children from coming to Him (see Mark 10:13,14). Decapitating newborn babies and treating their mothers like subhuman trash ought to inflame the righteous anger of anyone who loves Jesus.
I’ll give you three links to read for yourself, with the hope
that you’ll not be silent. Many Germans apparently knew what was going on in
the Nazi death camps when millions of Jews were murdered, but didn’t speak up.
But first, I will quote a couple paragraphs from the grand jury
indictment of Kermit Gosnell. Bear in mind that a grand jury is charged with
investigating whether a potential criminal case has enough evidence to go to
trial. This grand jury’s report from January 2011 is over 250 pages long. Here’s a link to the whole thing.
The opening paragraph reads:
This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels– and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths. Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it.
Then skip down to pages 4-5:
When you perform late-term “abortions” by inducing labor, you get babies. Live, breathing, squirming babies. By 24 weeks, most babies born prematurely will survive if they receive appropriate medical care. But that was not what the Women’s Medical Society was about. Gosnell had a simple solution for the unwanted babies he delivered: he killed them. He didn’t call it that. He called it “ensuring fetal demise.” The way he ensured fetal demise was by sticking scissors into the back of the baby’s neck and cutting the spinal cord. He called that “snipping.”Over the years, there were hundreds of “snippings.” Sometimes, if Gosnell was unavailable, the “snipping” was done by one of his fake doctors, or even by one of the administrative staff. But all the employees of the Women’s Medical Society knew. Everyone there acted as if it wasn’t murder at all.Most of these acts cannot be prosecuted, because Gosnell destroyed the files. Among the relatively few cases that could be specifically documented, one was Baby Boy A. His 17-year-old mother was almost 30 weeks pregnant – seven and a half months – when labor was induced. An employee estimated his birth weight as approaching six pounds. He was breathing and moving when Dr. Gosnell severed his spine and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal. The doctor joked that this baby was so big he could “walk me to the bus stop.”
Now for some links. Read for yourself:
By the way, a few months ago I wrote a fictional story about where this culture of death is taking us. Maybe you’d want to look at it again here: A Woman's Choice?
Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the
world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. Jesus
loves the little children of the world.
