When a tape of an Oval Office conversation from January 23, 1973, was released in 2009, many were surprised that President Nixon expressed ambivalence when talking about the Supreme Court’s decision the day before that legalized abortion. 
The White House issued no statement on the day Roe v. Wade was decided. On the tapes, Nixon expressed concern that broader access to abortion would foster “permissiveness” and that it “breaks the family.” Yet, he also said he saw reasons why it might be necessary, such as - shockingly and offensively - in cases of interracial pregnancies.
Today, thirty-eight years later, there is no such ambivalence surrounding the subject of abortion. In many ways, abortion has become one of the defining issues of our time. Thankfully, despite a growing divide, public opinion continues to grow in support of protections for the most innocent among us. We must not – nor will not – ever retreat from our quest to defend the defenseless.
Earlier this week, a shocking and grotesque story was reported regarding an abortion clinic in Philadelphia. It will turn your stomach. Before alerting you to the details, I must warn you: the report is graphic and beyond disturbing.
The article was filed by CitizenLink’s Jennifer Mesko. To read of these atrocities is to see nothing short of evil on parade. Some will suggest this deplorability is an exception. “This is extreme,” critics claim, “it’s not what’s going on.” But in the end, it is what’s going on at the rate of nearly one million innocent children per year.
My heart grieves for the lost children of this last generation and the involved women and men who now live with overwhelming guilt and regret. Yet, even as my heart breaks, I am not without hope. That’s because we may be reminded of the forgiveness that awaits all who bring their transgressions to God. No matter the depth or detail of our sin, each of us have access to Paul’s promise: “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).
Prosecutor Calls Abortion Clinic a ‘House of Horrors’
Jennifer Mesko
Babies A, B, C, D, E, F and G — and Karnamaya Mongar — may find justice after all.
Prosecutors say the babies were part of a gruesome practice at the Women’s Medical Society clinic in Philadelphia, in which babies who survived an abortion were killed with scissors. Mongar, a patient at the clinic, died Nov. 20, 2009, from an overdose of anesthetics.
Abortionist Kermit Gosnell, his wife and eight employees have been charged with, among other things: murder, conspiracy to commit murder, infanticide, performing illegal late-term abortions, drug delivery resulting in death, drug violations, theft by deception and conspiracy to deceive patients.
A grand jury was convened in May 2010, as the clinic was being investigated for drug-related complaints. The jury’s findings were released today.
The report reads: “The clinic reeked of animal urine, courtesy of the cats that were allowed to roam (and defecate) freely. Furniture and blankets were stained with blood. Instruments were not properly sterilized. Disposable medical supplies were not disposed of; they were reused, over and over again. Medical equipment — such as the defibrillator, the EKG, the pulse oximeter, the blood pressure cuff — was generally broken; even when it worked, it wasn’t used. The emergency exit was padlocked shut. And scattered throughout, in cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs, were fetal remains. It was a baby charnel house.”
District Attorney Seth Williams called it a “house of horrors.” He said Gosnell “induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord.”
The grand jury concluded that Mongar, 41, came to Gosnell’s clinic for an abortion and died of cardiac arrest after being given too much Demerol.
Operation Rescue had been calling for criminal charges against Gosnell.
“We are thrilled at the diligence done by authorities in Pennsylvania who have worked to protect the public and bring Gosnell and his cohorts to justice,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
“As shocking as this case is, it is in no way an anomaly. Shoddy and illegal practices characterize the abortion industry in America. There are more Gosnells out there victimizing and murdering under the cover of secrecy. Operation Rescue is working hard to expose these people and encourage authorities to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”
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Beverley E.
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Dear brothers and sisters, we must not allow this atrocity to be swept under the rug, minimalized, nor forgotten by the public at large. If we do, if we let the ease of our comfortable lives lull us into complacency and only look on this with shock for a day or two until the news fades and we are lured by the next horrible news story because we don’t want to think of it anyway, since it turns our stomachs, and we don’t want to get involved in this messy business, with slippery steps we approach the complicity of the folks whose lives have just been unveiled.
"Under the cover of secrecy" reminded me of the last portion of John 3.19, "...men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." For too long, the abortion industry has been able to operate in virtual secrecy. We know really very little of their finances, operations, and facilities. Many laws are on the books but not enforced, as was the case here. Complicity reigned for over 30 years – 30 years! If a generation is, generally speaking, 10 years, this went on for three generations, through various levels of both public entities and government administrations. The scope of the neglect to enforce, failure to follow through and choice to cover up is breathtaking.
As a citizen of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this hits me really hard. We thought no third trimester abortions were taking place here, especially since we have the wonderful Abortion Control Law on our books, the prototype of many state laws, tested and upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. All this effort and hedge against the taking of innocent, vulnerable human life was undone, however, by those who oppose the right to life – simply by choosing to neglect to enforce – how clever, how diabolical.
We must hold public officials at all levels to account, and vote them out, if they do not choose to enforce laws already on the books that protect human life.
Unfortunately, since our trust has been brutally broken, we also must now insist on accountability that public entities, such as hospitals, emergency services and their doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians, all are adhering to those laws and reporting truthfully, accurately, and timely. These reports must not lag behind for two years before being publicly released, as has been the case with Pennsylvania Department of Health mortality reports.
We, as a nation, are far down the road to being desensitized to the atrocity of abortion. But God has given us another opportunity to peel back the curtain of this horrid, sinful, evil industry and we must not shrink back. Just as the public has grown more pro-life because of wonderful technology, such as 4D ultrasound, which clearly shows the detail of in utero babies; transparency of the business practices with regular report cards on abortion clinics, will show the vileness of their business of death. Where are the other Gosnells? How many lives have they ruined and slaughtered?
As a woman saved by the mighty grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, this breaks my heart. I have been fighting the evil of abortion since its tentacles reached into my life even before Roe v. Wade. I lived, parched in the dessert of guilt, shame, and remorse for many long years, finally repenting and returning to the Living Water that quenched my thirst and healed my soul with forgiveness to be found only in Christ.
As a redeemed survivor who later chose life and now is blessed, I beg you to bring the full weight of law against this horrid, unregulated industry, while praying for the deliverance and salvation of each and every person deceptively caught up in it. Truly, may God have mercy on their souls.