{"id":4907,"date":"2013-05-16T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtlife\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2013-05-16T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T19:50:06","slug":"first-kermit-gosnell-now-douglas-karpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtlife\/2013\/05\/first-kermit-gosnell-now-douglas-karpen\/","title":{"rendered":"First Kermit Gosnell–Now Douglas Karpen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>Warning: the video above has some graphic discussion and content. Watch with care.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very, very, very bad season if you are an enthusiastic supporter of abortion. The lid is off on the reality of abortion, and it\u2019s getting harder and harder to admit that the practice isn\u2019t savage.<\/p>\nNot all clinics look medieval, of course. Some abortions happen in nice, shiny, well-staffed places. Babies are murdered by people who smile warmly and dress nicely. Let\u2019s be clear: this is still barbarism. It\u2019s still savage. It\u2019s still murder.<\/p>\nBut some clinics\u2013like that of the <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/05\/15\/18274247-juror-on-kermit-gosnell-he-just-sat-there-smirking?lite\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">now-convicted Kermit Gosnell<\/a>\u2013let us see the true horror of abortion. Another clinic has been exposed by former workers as, apparently, a site of truly mind-bending evil. It is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Houston-doctor-accused-of-illegal-abortions-4519565.php?cmpid=hpfsln\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Houston clinic run by a man named Dr. Douglas Karpen<\/a>. Karpen has seemingly been slaughtering babies for decades, including many babies that doctors consider \u201cviable,\u201d as they were born alive. The video above discusses Karpen\u2019s practice in great detail. Here\u2019s one quote:<\/p>\nA: \u201c\u2026the fetus would come completely out, and of course the fetus would still be alive, cause it was still moving, and you could see the stomach breathing, and that\u2019s when he would snip the spine, and of course the soft spot was he would take one of the forceps\u2026or one of the dilators and stick it down in the soft spot of the fetus\u2019s head.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nQ: You saw this happen?<\/strong><\/p>\nA: Oh yes. I think every morning I saw it\u2026every morning I saw\u20263-4 procedures [of this type].<\/strong><\/p>\nQ: And you would see that baby alive, and he would kill that baby?<\/strong><\/p>\nA: Either that, or actually twisting the head off the neck\u2026.[another woman] Sometimes he would force [the instrument] through the stomach.<\/strong><\/p>\n************<\/p>\nDon\u2019t turn your eyes away. Read just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationrescue.org\/archives\/sordid-history-of-abortionist-karpen-should-be-considered-by-tx-medical-board\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one account of Karpen\u2019s clinic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>December, 1989:<\/strong>\u00a0Chad Traywick, a newly active pro-life activist, went to Karpen\u2019s Houston abortion clinic for the first time to check out the best place for a protest he was planning. According to an article that appeared on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?pageId=16826\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">WorldNetDaily.com<\/a>\u00a0on January 21, 2003, Traywick indicated that when he got to the clinic the place was empty but the door was inexplicably open. He walked inside and discovered a room containing several buckets. Suspecting the nature of the contents, Traywick grabbed one of the buckets and left. Once at home, Traywick and his wife, removed the remains of a 28-week old aborted baby boy and photographed them. Horrifically, the baby\u2019s head and arm had been removed during the abortion process. Traywick named him Baby David and gave him a proper burial with over 100 people in attendance. Baby David\u2019s image has been used on pro-life signs and literature to reveal the horrors of abortion to the nation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationrescue.org\/archives\/sordid-history-of-abortionist-karpen-should-be-considered-by-tx-medical-board\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">There are many more such examples<\/a> of the evil of Karpen\u2019s work in Houston. Beheaded babies, impaled babies, babies ripped to shreds. It\u2019s all there, and it looks to be graphically true. At one point in the video above, the former employees share how a \u201cfetus\u201d thought to be killed by Karpen\u2019s abortion was alive, and grabbed Karpen\u2019s finger.<\/p>\nDear friend: can you read that sentence without weeping? I hope not.<\/p>\nCan I encourage you to do something? Forward on this story. Speak up to your friends about this clinic. Don\u2019t forget this. Don\u2019t let it leave your mind.<\/p>\nAmerica has for decades enfranchised and encouraged its citizens to murder babies. That is what many have done. Something has shifted, though. People who blinded themselves to the evil of abortion\u2013clinic workers, for example\u2013are not doing so any longer. They\u2019re rebelling against wickedness. They\u2019re speaking up. They\u2019re causing massive societal discomfort in the process.<\/p>\nChristians must speak up on matters like these.<\/strong> Karpen, like Gosnell, gives us an incredible opportunity to change hearts. But we\u2019re not only after the end of abortion. We know that we, too, bear evil in our bodies. We, too, need forgiveness. We are privileged to extend it to all\u2013to the culturally respectable, the vile, and all who will recognize their sinfulness, beat their chest, and cry out to the heavens for Christ to give them everlasting life they can never win on their own.<\/p>\nIn preaching this gospel, though, we never make the mistake of quieting our moral witness. Speak up, and then speak up again. If you Tweet about this, you could use, simply, #Karpen. If you want to support a project that seeks to show how the gospel frees us from supporting abortion and loving sin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtlife\/2013\/03\/terrence-malick-filmmaking-a-truthful-and-beautiful-pro-life-film\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">check out LIFE<\/a>. It is both beautiful and powerful.<\/p>\n(Photo: E. 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