Yesterday Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the maligned Philadelphia abortion doctor, was found guilty of murdering three babies who survived botched abortions in his clinic. The testimony of co-workers and patients about the clinic’s grimy condition was chilling and brutal: Blood everywhere, severed infant body parts in jars, even cats roaming the premises.
We seem to have some wicked inconsistencies when it comes our threshold for such news. Thousands of Infants were killed in the womb within American “health clinics” yesterday. No word was uttered for them, partly because the clinic they perished in was “safe” and “sanitary.”
Safe for whom?
In America alone, over 100 infant lives were terminated this past hour with no court proceedings or justice for their spilled blood. Their doctor wasn’t a cold heartless monster in the ilk of a Gosnell. He was probably nice and professional. He stabbed the infants in the neck or suctioned their brain with a gentle smile.
That the child’s life begins at some arbitrary 24 week standard, or in the inches of proximity to the womb, is a sad attempt of justification. The death is just as painful for that child no matter where or when it happens.
I’m not merely trying to be provocative.
I just want to bring to light what I believe to be a torrential infanticide of tiny souls. Modern day abortion was born in the twisted barbaric pseudo science of negative eugenics and spread with the racially charged propaganda of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger. Logically and scientifically speaking, hardly anyone can deny abortion is the taking of a unique human life anymore. But “education and care for the mother should be the focus, not Roe V. Wade,” they may say.
Education and care for the mother is not contradictory to caring for the unborn. The only teen pregnancy resource centers I know of in my area are also staunchly pro-life Baptist and Catholic ministries.
We can speak grace to the mother while speaking life for the child. There should be basic constitutional rights that protect all of life, especially the voiceless innocent kind.
Telling a black slave in the antebellum South that the law that made them “subhuman” was inconsequential to the slavery debate would be a bit disingenuous. Imagine if abolitionists only posited the “education” of slave masters as the best tactic to end slavery. How much longer would America have tolerated this abusive form of chattel slavery?
Was the “Emancipation Proclamation” necessary or not?
Our laws must reflect our value for all life.
The preborn child is a precious life with unique DNA
a unique heartbeat
a unique calling. (Psalm 139:13-14)
If it takes the Gosnell trial to capture the public’s attention about this ongoing tragedy, so be it. If it takes a shop of horrors so brutal and horrifying and real, worse than any “Saw” or “Texas Chainsaw” screening, then God use it for Your glory.
The light shining onto the utter ugly works of darkness will not reveal a bed of roses. Initially, it will be painful to watch.
So I’ll continue to strive to plead the blood of Christ over the blood of millions lost. That His perfect blood would continually “speak a better word” on our behalf than the blood spilled in murder (Hebrews 12:24).
For this nation.
For the infants.
For the broken mothers.
And for the souls of doctors like Hermit Gosnell.
God’s mercy is the only hope we all can cling to.
Bryan Daniels
Chief of the least 
I think one of the things that makes me the craziest is that the people who prance around defending the rights of the mother over the unborn seem to be a lot more interested in animal rights than human rights. How can you care desperately for baby seals, whales, feral cats and little chinchillas, but not human fetuses?
I don’t know if I am a realist or a pessismist but the society at large will shortly forget about this gruesome trial and things will go back to the way it was and is and will be. The world isn’t interested for the most part and many Christians remain confused or indifferent; we have been successfully desensitized to human life and as the comment before me, a dying whale on the beach garners more media attention than the Gosnell atrociousity. Come, Lord Jesus, come!
All arguments against abortion are empty and futile until the arrow is aimed at the heart of the problem – the meaning and value of human life.
And that, points to God.
But we traded Him off for a yet unproven theory about 150 years ago. Since then its been a snowball gaining momentum as it courses downhill through our culture of death. Roe v Wade was not the turning point, only a symptom of a darkness in our culture few are ready or willing to admit.
Only the recovery of true meaning, value and purpose in life will serve in the battle against death. Until then, it is what it is: Gosnell, Carhart, Marx, Mao, “man of steel”, Hitler, etc.
Hitler’s Germany shows that a shallow nod toward paganized spirituality only makes matters worse. (Nazism was wedded to the occult).
Only a clearly defined return to simple faith in the Definer of all things (Jesus) will arm us to wage this dreadful warfare against death.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Thank you for this article.