“Every one of those babies died in utero.”
“They have no case,” the defense attorney said of a victim named Baby Boy A, “because it was killed in utero.” Kermit Gosnell injected a poison into the woman’s abdomen, his attorney argued, “to prevent a live birth. That was the goal of Dr. Gosnell with [the mother’s] consent: to kill the baby in utero.”
That was the heart of Gosnell’s defense. The attorney, John McMahon, built his closing arguments around those claims. It didn’t work. Gosnell, a late-term abortionist, was convicted of killing babies and causing the death of one mother. I will have more to say later this week about Gosnell, who died on Monday, but for now I want to point out something.
Search the internet for those quotations from Gosnell’s attorney: “Every one of those babies died in utero” and “that was the goal of Dr. Gosnell … to kill the baby in utero.”
You will not find a single major media outlet that ran with those quotes. I reported those quotations because I sat in the courtroom on the day of Gosnell’s closing arguments. The rest of the press ignored them.
Likewise, a couple of days later, when a pro-choice group held a press call with multiple reporters, they explained the difference between what Gosnell did and what other late-term abortionists did.
On this call with multiple reporters, the pro-choice abortion expert explained, “When a procedure that usually involves the collapsing of the skull is done, it’s usually done when the fetus is still in the uterus, not when the fetus has been delivered.”
Search for the phrase, “a procedure that usually involves the collapsing of the skull,” on the internet. None of the other reporters on that call quoted that extraordinary phrase by the abortion expert, because it made abortion look bad. The line is in the Congressional Record because then-Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), a pro-lifer, cited my article.
I just happened to be in that courtroom and on that press call, which is how we know the gruesome defenses of abortion that those other reporters kept from their readers. Imagine how much stuff, just as shocking, just as relevant, the press has successfully covered up.
As a parting note, recall this great moment, when conservative Mollie Hemingway asked Washington Post abortion-and-healthcare reporter Sarah Kliff why she had totally ignored Gosnell: