It's spooky season and that means that all manner of creepy, ghoulish, and monstrous Halloween decorations will soon be flooding your neighborhood and your local store. Howling ghosts, headless riders, cape-clad vampires, and the always classic zombie will create a veritable Wild Hunt of plastic figures on the loose, ready to wreak havoc during the next month. It's easy to look at these spooks and laugh them off as cheap interpretations of monsters that you would never see in the real world; they're scary but they would never actually frighten you because they exist only in movies and make believe. They are figments of the imagination. Unfortunately, in our world there are some things far worse than ghost, goblins, and zombies that can do real damage and are all too real.
In August 2010, federal marshals descended upon and entered The Women's Medical Society Clinic in west Philadelphia, run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell, and quite literally walked into a scene from a horror movie. They had initially been called in due to allegations of health code violations and to investigate the death of one recent patient, but little did they know those were only the least of the facility's offenses. Hardened FBI and DEA officers who were present during the raid later said that what they saw in that building was one of the most chilling sights any of them had ever seen.
Within the walls of the clinic, fermented filth hung on everything, the walls and floors were covered in vomit and excrement, dirty surgical tools lay strewn haphazardly around used rags and operating clothing, a stray cat wandered around the building completely at liberty to do what it liked, and half-conscious patients high or over-dosing on illegally-administered drugs sat or laid in every corner, quietly moaning in pain. As agents ventured deeper inside, the sights only got worse. Blood slicked some parts of a recovery room floor, it was discovered that many of the clinic's staff had little to no medical training, and it the very back of the building an inconspicuous closet held a nauseating sight, Opening the closet doors, the federal agents saw what looked like a serial killer's prize collection: lone body parts disconnected at the joints, all manner of human remains, and the perfectly formed bodies of half a dozen babies carefully preserved in bottles. Each baby and body part hung serenely in a pool of formaldehyde, unseeing, unhearing, and completely unaware of the hell hole in which it existed. Later, tests would determine that these babies were from all stages of pregnancy development, including up to and exceeding 40 weeks. Kermit Gosnell's clinic wasn't just a regular medical treatment facility. It was specifically for women's "health" and, as such, prided itself on providing abortions even into the latest stages of pregnancy. But what was found in that facility exceeded all points of medical pride with no way to defend it.
The Women's Medical Society Clinic was immediately shut down and Kermit Gosnell, his wife, and his business partner were eventually taken into custody to await trial. The whole world watched the trial, which shone a blinding light on every aspect of abortion that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates had tried to keep in the shadows. It revealed even more gruesome details about the baby serial killer, Gosnell.
The brutality - "We call (snipping the spinal cord) a transection, but it's literally a beheading..."
The uncaring - "I wanted my baby, I wanted my baby, and they were just ignoring me..."
The bottom line - "The prosecutors contend that (his abortion business) made him a millionaire..."
The bottom line - "The prosecutors contend that (his abortion business) made him a millionaire..."
For better or worse, the trail of the real life boogeyman was a blessing because, when it was over and Kermit Gosnell was sentenced, it left in its wake a strong defense against abortion and fueled every pro-life advocate forward in their fight. But more than anything, the trial gave the poor babies who had been so brutally murdered the voice they'd been denied. Every baby that Gosnell killed and then kept presented itself as a stark piece of evidence and, even in silence their bodies spoke volumes. They were alive and had had their lives taken from them; they were human, and had their revenge against the man who killed them.
Facts courtesy of: The Washington Post, Wikipedia (Kermit Gosnell), and Live Action.org
Photo Credit: Texas Values
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