Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Angry

This article implies that the pro-life movement is negligent in the Gosnell case: it blames anti-abortion advocates and Rick Santorum for not stopping Gosnell's clinic's continued operation. This is infuriating:

Nor did the group pull public (such as court) records of complaints against Gosnell, which might have allowed anti-abortion advocates to see the pattern state regulatory authorities were ignoring, despite repeated complaints from doctors and Gosnell's victims. "Groups like Operation Rescue have the manpower to investigate clinics. Most pro-life groups don't have that kind of manpower. We're there to offer women an alternative," she said. The problems with the clinic were "apparently known in the neighborhood, but I wouldn't necessarily know that."
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There was one man who was perfectly placed to change all of that over the past two years, during which the Gosnell case lawyers were under a gag order: staunch anti-abortion advocate and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum.
 This is so infuriating that I can't really even write anything. Now I'm just going to sit here stewing. 

Oh, and the tweet promoting the piece is just pure delight:

An anti-abortion group prayed outside Kermit Gosnell's clinic for 20 years. How did they miss the horrors inside?

2 comments:

Sonetka said...

Well, since they were praying outside, I'd imagine they had a pretty good idea of what was going on inside. Is the tweeter blaming them for not having X-ray vision? And the first one is brilliantly illogical: "How dare they not enforce the regulations that we were supposed to be enforcing! THIS IS ALL THEIR FAULT!"

You could probably find every logical fallacy ever defined in the various defenses of the Gosnell disaster. You know, if you felt like having a really depressing day.

hopkins said...

this is one of the most infuriatingly awful articles I've read in a long long long time.