{"id":25133,"date":"2011-02-01T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T08:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/?p=25133"},"modified":"2017-03-09T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:37:06","slug":"the-absent-msm-and-gosnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2011\/02\/01\/the-absent-msm-and-gosnell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Absent MSM and Gosnell – UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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My Tuesday column is up at First Things<\/strong> and I am taking a look at how determined the press seems to be, to look away, look away from Kermit Gosnell<\/strong><\/a> and his ilk:<\/p>\n

The Gosnell story\u2014a story that by any measure deserved in-depth coverage, some serious discussion about regulation and responsibility, and a few features forcing the nation to consider just when a \u201clate-term\u201d abortion slips into the category of \u201cinfanticide\u201d or what our leadership and politicians really think of all of this\u2014proved too big and too messy for the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

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Do a quick run-through of the search engines. Beyond some perfunctory coverage on the day the Gosnell story broke, there has been little attention paid, no follow-up by the mainstream media. This is an ugly story; it touches too many social shibboleths and indicts too many philosophies. The press wants Kermit Gosnell and his scissors to go away, and to that end they are simply not talking about him.<\/p>\n

So, allow me to ask the impolitic question I have hinted at elsewhere: in choosing to look away, in choosing to under-report, in choosing to spin, minimize, excuse, and move-along when it comes to Kermit Gosnell\u2014and to this whole subject of under-regulated abortion clinics, the debasement of women and the slaughter of living children\u2014how are the press and those they protect by their silence any better than the Catholic bishops<\/em> who, in decades past, looked away, under-reported, spun, minimized, excused, moved-along, and protected the repulsive predator-priests who have stolen innocence and roiled the community of faith?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hope you\u2019ll read it all<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Read also: Joseph Bottom,<\/strong> To Live and Die in PA<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

. . . abortion has distorted American law and snarled American politics. Why should it be any surprise that it has soiled American medicine as well? People like Dr. Gosnell are allowed to exist by the pro-abortion lobbying groups that insist ordinary medical supervision will lead to a curtailing of access to abortion in this country.<\/p>\n

As it happens, they\u2019re right. Partly that\u2019s because laws concerning medical licensing genuinely do offer a chance for pro-life state legislatures to hurt the abortion business by burdening its practitioners with extensive paperwork and expensive equipment. The activists at NARAL and Planned Parenthood are not exactly wrong to worry about what they call TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers). And yet, there\u2019s a more serious reason that medical supervision threatens the abortion license in this country. It\u2019s what ordinary medical regulation and supervision would reveal: the fact that the abortion business is the gutter of American medicine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michelle Malkin\u2019s<\/strong> Fallout Roundup<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Abortion industry forced to suspend centers employing Gosnell<\/strong><\/a>. There are more like him.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> An undercover video done at Planned Parenthood, and Offered without comment<\/strong><\/a>. The obnoxious deep note at the beginning finally abates after the first minute.<\/p>\n

Liberty Pundits:<\/strong> Melissa Clouthier has more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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