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FOX News to air special on Gosnell’s ‘House of Horrors’

Steven W. Mosher | For the Catholic Herald

FOX News will air an hour-long special May 3 at 9 p.m. on the
trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell.

The mainstream media has done an excellent job of completely
ignoring the trial of Gosnell. As everyone knows by now,
Gosnell was the Philadelphia abortionist famous for “snipping
the spines” of newborns who happened to survive his efforts
to abort them.

The state health authorities ignored his clinic for 17 long
years. Then one of his patients died from a drug overdose. At
long last, the authorities decided to come in and take a look
around.

They were horrified by what they found. There was blood and
animal feces everywhere and the stench of urine filled the
air. Jars filled with the severed feet of babies lined the
shelves, ghoulish “trophies” of Gosnell’s grisly work.

Then, when the investigators attempted to check the medical
licenses of Gosnell’s employees, whom he referred to as his
fellow “doctors,” they found that they had none. They were
practicing medicine without a license.

After Gosnell’s arrest became public, present and past
workers in his abortion mill began to come forward with their
own stories. They spoke of babies crying after being born
alive, only to be silenced by Gosnell’s scissors. They spoke
of having to wrap up these tiny corpses in tissue and throw
them in a deep freeze.

This trial should be making the headlines in every major
paper, and be leading the news broadcasts each night. Every
other mass murder story in America ignites a media frenzy,
after all. Yet Gosnell’s trial has been greeted by silence.
The national media is doing its best to pretend it doesn’t
exist.

One Washington Post blog writer explains the lack of coverage
in an article entitled “Why Kermit Gosnell hasn’t been on
page one”: “I say we didn’t write more because the only
abortion story most outlets ever cover in the news pages is
every single threat or perceived threat to abortion rights.
In fact, that is so fixed a view of what constitutes coverage
of that issue that it’s genuinely hard, I think, for many
journalists to see a story outside that paradigm as news.”

Again, a host on HuffPost Live echoed this sentiment: “For
what it’s worth, I do think that those of us on the left have
made a decision not to cover this trial because we worry that
it’ll compromise abortion rights. Whether you agree with
abortion or not, I do think there’s a direct connection
between the media’s failure to cover this and our own
political commitments on the left. I think it’s a bad idea, I
think it’s dangerous, but I think that’s the way it is.” In
other words, the mainstream media, predominantly leftist,
sees this case as detrimental to abortion “rights”, so they
ignore abortion wrongs.

Kudos to FOX News for covering this story from the beginning,
and for now featuring an hour-long special. Hopefully this
coverage will shame the rest of the mainstream media into
talking about Gosnell. The women and children victimized by
this man deserve no less.

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