Child Murderer Convicted

by Sam Huntington

Kermit Gosnell has been convicted of three counts of murder in the first degree, and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, along with a number of other charges, which include infanticide, conspiracy, and corruption. Many of the 250-counts were tied to violations of state abortion law the state of Pennsylvania left unchecked for 30 years.

As a consequence of these convictions, Dr. Gosnell could face the death penalty, except that his case will be appealed forever and a day until Gosnell finally expires from old age. He is presently 72-years old.



Abortion has joined race and war as the most debatable topics in the United States. It involves human relationships, ethics, emotion, religion, and law. There are also moral, social, and medical aspects to this debate. While there are many points of view, we seem to have politicized it into two camps: pro-life, and pro-choice. In the United States today, 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion every year. Poor women are three times more likely to abort their children; black women three times more likely to abort than white women (503/1,000 live births); unmarried women four to five times more likely to abort than married women, and this has doubled among teenaged girls.

The legal field has not made the debate any easier. In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that abortion is a woman’s own right and choice. The author of the court’s opinion, Justice Harry Blackmun, was a Nixon appointee. He opined, “Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy, than a woman’s decision —with the guidance of her physician and within the limited specified in Roe— whether to end her pregnancy. A woman’s right to make that choice freely is fundamental.”

In 1973, however, fetuses weren’t regarded as children. Nor can we say that Justice Blackmun gave enough consideration to the dignity and protection of human life accorded to the viable child yet unborn. Now that view is changing —as it should, in my opinion. A nation that allows mothers to murder their own children at-will is immoral. More than one and a half million abortions annually is nothing short of infanticide on an unimaginable scale —and we permit this unconscionable situation to exist, for the most part, because of one of these possibilities: women are either too licentious to keep their legs closed, or they are too stupid to use contraception.  Yes, there are exceptions to this, and we must discuss those caveats also.

It is time for a renewed debate on the issue of abortion. Not a political debate, as in the past, but an honest dialogue about the sanctity of life vs. the convenience to women of ridding their bodies of the evidence of their immorality.  It has become entirely too easy to abort a child.  It is unthinkable that leftists continue to cling to the madness of Margaret Sanger, who saw abortion as part of the solution to increasing minority populations.  And it is minority populations who continue to have the highest percentages of abortions, per capita, today.