Gosnell's Young Victims to Get Catholic Burial

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has set into motion plans to ensure that the young victim's of mass murderer Kermit Gosnell will get some respect & dignity in death that he failed to give them when they were alive. The fact that the burials can't take place until after the trial is over serves to hilite once more how the unborn are treated differently than the rest of us. Usually murder victims are allowed to be buried after an autopsy. But these babies are seen merely as evidence by the government, not the remains of human beings that deserve to be treated with dignity.

Last week Gosnell appeared in court for a hearing about the charges he is facing. Even now the man's arrogance is absolutely beyond words. he made millions from all the murders he committed. Yet he had the temerity to ask for a public defender to represent him (Abortionist Gosnell Could Face Death Penalty, Has No Lawyer) The court naturally said no. According to Fox News he holds properties valued “in the millions,” including a nice second home in Brigantine, New Jersey valued at $900,000. Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Renee Cardwell Hughes ordered him to hire an attorney for the hearing that will take place next Wednesday. The attorney he had during the grand jury hearing no longer represents him.

William J. Brennan represented Gosnell during the 10-month-long grand jury investigation told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he was hired with the understanding he would be defending Gosnell against allegations he was illegally selling medication prescriptions — not that Gosnell was engaged in violating state laws concerning abortion & killing viable babies.

Gosnell is being held without bail. His wife has been charged & is in jail because she could not post the $1 million in bail the court required.

Meanwhile the heat has also turned up on the National Abortion Federation. If you remember, they rejected him for membership based on the conditions at his abortion mill but failed to turn him it. Well, it turns out that he has connections with 2 other abortion mills that are NAF members. They are the Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which has a history of shoddy medical practices, & the Atlantic Women’s Services in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge is the former employer of Gosnell employee Eileen O’Neill. She was arrested last week along with Gosnell & charged with criminal violations including Theft by Deception for pretending to be a licensed physician & charging fees as such, Racketeering, Corruption, Perjury, & False Swearing. O’Neill was present during the abortion death of Karnamaya Mongar . According to the grand jury report, she lied to authorities in order to cover up the truth about Mongar’s death.

Operation Rescue reports that the American Catholic Lawyers Association was in Baton Rouge recently. They threatened to sue the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals if the Delta Clinic is not shut down.

According to the OR report "Those attorneys indicate that an internal report made by the Department of Health and Hospitals lists numerous violations at the Delta Clinic that more that warrant closure. The DHH continues to make excuses for conditions at Delta, much the same way regulators in Pennsylvania turned a blind eye to complaints about Gosnell in what the grand jury there described as a 'complete regulatory collapse.'

Delta has a long history going back at least to 1998 of violations and filthy conditions of a similar nature found at Gosnell’s 'house of horrors' in Philadelphia. Two women, Ingar Weber and Shelia Hebert, are known to have died from botched abortions they received at Delta. Attorneys threatening to sue the DHH say that not much has changed at the clinic, and it still poses a danger to the public.
Delta was accused last year by the DHH of failing to ensure the clinic had a 'quality assurance program.' The report indicated that the clinic did not provide women adequate protections for their privacy and did not monitor patients receiving sedation 'regarding their cardiac status, respiratory status and level of consciousness during the medical procedure.'”

Based on these facts you have to wonder why the NAF turned down Gosnell last year. Sounds like his clinic fit in perfectly with the type of place the NAF wantes for a member.

Gosnell was employed at the Delaware facility one day per week to do abortions. Both facilities are owned by Leroy Brinkley. Deleware does not require inspections. But Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden said his office will launch a “wide-ranging” investigation of Gosnell & probe his work at the Delaware abortion facility. The AG's staff & Delaware investigators have already met with officials from Pennsylvania to determine if any criminal acts of violations of state health & safety standards occurred in Delaware or by those associated with Gosnell in the state.

Deleware right to Life attorney James Haley Jr. said there is “probable cause” in the wide-ranging grand jury report highlighting the problems at Gosnell’s abortion center that warranted close scrutiny in Delaware. It is possible that there could be an accessory to murder charge in one of the abortion-infanticide cases. That is because Gosnell consulted with a woman in Delaware who paid Gosnell $2,500 for an abortion that was too late to be legal in Delaware. Gosnell is reported to started the abortion in Delaware, by administering drugs. Then he supposedly transported the woman to his Philadelphia abortion business.
Haley went on to note that Gosnell apparently defrauded a Delaware-based group that funds abortions for poor women by changing the address of Pennsylvania residents getting abortions to Delaware locations.

The NAF has now suspended their memberships. But you can be sure it is only because the truth came out. As I said, the real puzzle for me is why they rejected Gosnell.

These revelations also put the lie to a statement the NAF put out after the Gosnell arrest. It points out that "the Grand Jury Report states that NAF standards, 'are, in many ways, more protective of women’s safety than are the state’s [Pennsylvania] regulations.'” True, on paper they are. But in reality things are much different. That same statement claims that "NAF conducts site visits to confirm that our members, or any prospective members, are in compliance with our Guidelines, which helps ensure that women receive high-quality abortion care." Apparently they didn't look to closely at the Delta Clinic given what has come out. Or they looked the other way. We are seeing what NAF really means by "Quality Abortion Care is the Norm".

That NAF is obfuscating & misdirecting in this statement is no surprize. they do it elwehere on the website as well. On the news page they have the following:

"Federal Abortion Ban
Federal courts have ruled in favor of all three legal challenges by NAF and others to the federal abortion ban. As a result, abortion providers can continue to provide their patients with health care free from harmful government intrusion." (emphasis mine) You would think that the result was a victory & that the ban they are talking about was overturned. I guess they are hoping the people reading the story are to stupid to notice that the actual story says something completely different.

The opening line of the actual story starts out by saying "On April 18, 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law banning certain abortion procedures after the first trimester." (again emphasis mine) Wait a minute, didn't the NAF claim that abortion providers could continue free from harmeful government intrusion? Well sort of. But if you go back & read it carefully, their initial statement that makes it sound like the ban was overturned is meant to mislead. Notice they talk about health care in general, not abortions when they talk about harmful government intrusion. Not quite the same thing as no ban is it? & in the end, not exactly the win the NAF wants to portray it as either.

In the story the NAF says "We are working with our members and attorneys to ensure that women continue to have access to the highest quality abortion care." Later it says "Our mission is to ensure safe, legal, and accessible abortion care to promote health and justice for women." Well, given how it wasn't until the news came out about these clinics that the NAF cut their ties, we can see that their claims are more PR spin than reality.

Archdiocese sets aside burial site for victims of Philly abortionist

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- For the defenseless victims of Dr. Kermit Gosnell's West Philadelphia abortion clinic, there may yet be dignity in death. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has set aside a potential grave site in the recently opened infant section of All Souls Cemetery in West Brandywine and is now seeking contributions for a burial fund. The grand jury estimated that "hundreds" of late-term babies were born alive and killed in Gosnell's clinic then stored in jars and containers, some in a freezer. Robert Whomsley, director of the archdiocese's Catholic Cemeteries Office, said he is "prepared to receive these children and bury them in whatever way the archdiocese decides." Philadelphia Auxiliary Bishop John J. McIntyre said, "Every effort will be made to identify the babies as individuals and bury them that way. If there are body parts, we would probably bury them in a dignified manner, in one coffin." Besides providing dignity in death, Bishop McIntyre said the burial offer is "testimony to the church's respect for all human life from the moment of conception to natural death. If we can move people's hearts through this story to see the true sacredness of all human life, then we can say that these infants did not die in vain," he said. No funeral can take place until Gosnell has been tried and exhausted his appeals. Until then, the babies, and parts of infants, must be held as evidence. The process could take months or even years.