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>>Gosnell was a butcher who deserves whatever punishment comes his way. But he's being used as a poster child in order to promote an agenda that many of those pointing to him had before Gosnell became national news.
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>I'll tell you who else deserves punishment - those who knew about Gosnell and chose to look the other way. That includes Planned Parenthood.
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>And speaking of national news - much of the mainstream media ignored the Gosnell case for as long as they could. Ironically, it was Kirsten Powers (a pro-choice moderate liberal who does a couple of syndicated columns and also works at Fox) who covered the case, and ripped the Washington Post and MSNBC for their lame responses on why the weren't covering it.
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>Gosnell didn't get to be Gosnell on his own - he had help, help in the form of denial and tacit approval. I have yet to see ONE pro-choice liberal stand up and say, "you know what, we are culpable here, we knew this man was a butcher and we didn't say anything, and this is partly our fault".
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>>The objection is that abortion is actually a very safe procedure and the law doesn't require doctors performing much riskier procedures in out-patient centers to have admitting privileges.
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>In the first trimester I agree that abortion is generally very safe. However, even proponents acknowledge that complications become a little more of a factor as you get further into the second trimester.

True, but not nearly the complications (and dangers) of childbirth