USA - Gosnell verdict prompts no notice from the White House

When public policy protects 

the murder of infants

By Anne Hendershott

Now that the verdict is in on Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist convicted of delivering and killing babies — most of them black — perhaps President Obama might finally be willing to respond to the horrific crime. 

Silent on the facts of the case, it is curious that up until now, neither the president nor the first lady has been willing to comment on the house of horrors over which Gosnell presided.

Prior to the Gosnell case, Mr. Obama was quite willing to involve himself in violent cases — especially when the cases involved black children. 

In the days following the death of Trayvon Martin, the teenager shot last year by a neighborhood watch captain in a gated Florida community, Mr. Obama told a gathering of reporters in the Rose Garden, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” In a speech earlier this month that addressed youth violence in Chicago, Michelle Obama compared herself to Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl slain there: “Hadiya Pendleton was me, and I was her.”

Personally identifying with the victims of violence is something that the president and his wife have done often. Most recently, they brought the parents of children slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington to lobby Congress on gun control. 

Yet, neither the president nor his wife has said a word about the horrific descriptions of tiny screams, flailing arms and beheadings in the capital murder trial of Gosnell. Neither of them seems to have noticed that the pictures of the newborn victims at the clinic may have looked a lot like their own newborn children.

Ignoring the Gosnell case, Mr. Obama drew a standing ovation from Planned Parenthood staffers and supporters at their annual fundraising gala last month when he assured them, “You’ve got a president who’s going to be right here with you fighting every step of the way.” 

He is standing with Planned Parenthood despite the fact that the organization admitted to knowing about the conditions inside Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic, yet chose not to act to help end the killing of newborn babies.
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