Obama, Planned Parenthood, and Dr. Kermit Gosnell

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Hat tip Daily Caller

An American president speaking before the nation's largest abortion advocate organization and saying, "Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you, God bless you."

 http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/26/obama-first-sitting-president-to-address-planned-parenthood/

Is President Obama aware that the founder of Planned Parenthood's predecessor organization, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenics enthusiast and racist who wanted to cut down on the number of African-American births in America? (She has succeeded.) Here below are two slightly different accounts of Sanger, one by Wikipedia, which downplays Sanger's racial motivations, and the other by Pastor Clenard Childress Jr., who  stresses them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html


Is President Obama aware of the on-going trial of an abortion doctor in Philadelphia who is on trial for murder after carrying out God only knows how many late term abortions and killing fetuses who were born alive and lying on the delivery table struggling for breath, or in one case, trying to swim out of a toilet in which he or she was born?

Mr President, meet Dr Kermit Gosnell. If you readers don't know Dr Gosnell, it is because the mainstream news media doesn't want to cover his story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Gosnell

"When the team members entered the clinic, they were appalled, describing it to the Grand Jury as 'filthy,' 'deplorable,' 'disgusting,' 'very unsanitary, very outdated, horrendous,' and 'by far, the worst' that these experienced investigators had ever encountered. There was blood on the floor. A stench of urine filled the air. A flea-infested cat was wandering through the facility, and there were cat feces on the stairs. Semi-conscious women scheduled for abortions were moaning in the waiting room or the recovery room, where they sat on dirty recliners covered with blood-stained blankets. All the women had been sedated by unlicensed staff – long before Gosnell arrived at the clinic – and staff members could not accurately state what medications or dosages they had administered to the waiting patients. Many of the medications in inventory were past their expiration dates ... surgical procedure rooms were filthy and unsanitary ... resembling 'a bad gas station restroom.' Instruments were not sterile. Equipment was rusty and outdated. Oxygen equipment was covered with dust, and had not been inspected. The same corroded suction tubing used for abortions was the only tubing available for oral airways if assistance for breathing was needed..."^[1]:20-21

Artists drawing of Gosnell trial


"[F]etal remains [were] haphazardly stored throughout the clinic– in bags, milk jugs, orange juice cartons, and even in cat-food containers ... Gosnell admitted to Detective Wood that at least 10 to 20 percent ... were probably older than 24 weeks [the legal limit] ... In some instances, surgical incisions had been made at the base of the fetal skulls. The investigators found a row of jars containing just the severed feet of fetuses. In the basement, they discovered medical waste piled high. The intact 19-week fetus delivered by Mrs. Mongar three months earlier was in a freezer. In all, the remains of 45 fetuses were recovered ... at least two of them, and probably three, had been viable."

Aborted fetuses kept in plastic bags in Gosnell's clinic

The seven other murder charges are all of first degree murder; they relate to babies, whom staff have testified they saw move or cry after complete birth, and whose deaths are alleged to have resulted from subsequent lethal action. They arise because of the "born alive rule", a principle of common law which stipulates that by default, for legal purposes, personhood arises - and therefore unlawful killing constituting murder becomes possible - immediately upon the victim's being born alive. (Several US states as well as Federal legislation have more specific laws to protect fetuses and newborn babies, see fetal rights and born alive laws in the United States). Steven Massof, a clinic employee who pleaded guilty to similar charges in 2011, testified that he (Massof) had snipped the spines of more than 100 babies after they had been born alive, and that this was considered "standard procedure" at the clinic; a number of other employees had also testified to the same point.^[4] No physical evidence exists for five of the seven cases — charges are based on staff testimony and denied by Gosnell. A photograph exists of the sixth, who allegedly had a gestational age of 30 weeks, and the physical remains were obtained of the seventh.^[30] The Grand Jury report states that, "A medical expert with 43 years of experience in performing abortions was appalled. This expert told us, 'I’ve never heard of it [cutting the spinal cord] being done during an abortion'."^[1]:223

^{Illinois State Senator Obama voted three times against criminalizing the killing of born babies in his state.} 

^{To be fair, I will link the somewhat foggy Fact Check post on this issue.}

^{http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/obama-and-infanticide/}

Many would argue that this nation lost its soul when we passed Roe v Wade. 

^{Many others vehemently disagree. It is an emotion-laden issue t}hat has been front 

and center for decades. But when and where did we decide that it was 

^{also fine to go into a woman's womb and butcher a  viable baby that was} 

^{weeks if not days from birth? When did we decide that it was OK to kill} 

^{said baby if, somehow, it survived the abortion process and was lying alive} 

^{on the table ? At what point is it a mother's choice to kill her child? When it} 

^{is still in the womb? When it is hours old? When it is a year old?}

Is this our country? Talk about a slippery slope.