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Action Alert,
PPFA, NAF, and Abortionist Kermit Gosnell By Dave Andrusko I would like to use this space to discuss several items.  First,
please be sure to respond to Part One—the NRLC Action
Alert—and pass the alert along to your friends. The most
important two sentences: “Please call, today, the
offices of your two U.S. senators, and your
representative in the House of Representatives. Urge
them to insist that the Pence Amendment, removing all
federal funds from Planned Parenthood, must remain part
of the final appropriations bill.”Second, carefully read today’s excerpts from the grand jury investigation into abortionist and accused murderer Kermit Gosnell (“Enabling Gosnell to operate in the manner that killed Ms. Shaw, Mrs. Mongar, and untold numbers of babies”). See how absolutely determined were the people responsible for overseeing abortion clinics to do nothing of the sort. Even the death of a second woman at Gosnell’s abortion clinic did not trigger an inspection or investigation. Instead the relevant authorities fixated on a meaningless on-line report , the idea being then to “charge Gosnell with failing to file the report in a timely and proper manner,” according to the Grand Jury report. After law enforcement raided the clinic (looking for evidence of illegal drug prescriptions), they urged the Department of Health (DOH) to look at Gosnell’s clinic. When they finally did, one woman “complained [to a member of legal counsel] that a representative of the District Attorney’s Office was ‘badgering’ DOH staff to shut down the facility immediately,” according to the grand jury report. The response? “I’d say we were used,” which solicited a “Bingo.” The grand jury indignantly observes that “the woman most directly responsible for the department’s oversight of abortion facilities, told the Grand Jury: ‘I haven’t been in any facilities in probably – in an abortion facility in many, many years.’ The citizens of Pennsylvania deserve far better from those charged with protecting public health and safety.” Third, I re-read a piece that Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), wrote last September on a pro-abortion site: “Don't Judge All Abortion Providers Based on the Case of Steven Brigham.” (Brigham is a notorious abortionist who, as Saporta concedes, “has had his medical license temporarily suspended, relinquished, or revoked in five states.”) This, of course, before the Gosnell debacle became public. Saporta parroted the party line that “abortion opponents …are using this opportunity to call for more regulations on all providers in an attempt to further their goal of limiting women’s access to abortion care.” You’re darn tootin'. Abortion clinics are not sanctuaries—or at least they ought not to be—free to do whatever they choose. That is why abortion clinic regulation legislation is working its way through various state legislatures. And there is an intersection between NAF and Gosnell, as the Grand Jury report detailed. "Gosnell, bizarrely, applied for admission [to NAF] shortly after Karnamaya Mongar's death." An evaluator from NAF saw problems at his clinic. "It was the worst abortion clinic she had ever inspected,” the Grand Jury report explained. “Of course, she rejected Gosnell's application. She just never told anyone in authority about all the horrible, dangerous things she had seen.” “Bureaucratic inertia is not exactly news. We understand that. But we think this was something more.” What? “ We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion." I need your feedback on both Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today. Please send your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. |