Posted on 10/12/2018 11:01:20 AM PDT by Morgana
Arguably a contributing factor to the continuation of abortion is that it is performed out of sight and thus, out of many minds.
A film about one of the worst practitioners of abortion, Kermit Gosnell, opens October 12 in at least 600 theaters. Gosnell is the Philadelphia abortionist sentenced in 2013 to life in prison without parole for the murder of a baby born alive in a botched abortion.
The film is based on trial transcripts and police records.
Here’s the background, as summarized on Wikipedia.org: “In 2011, Gosnell and various co-defendant employees were charged with eight counts of murder, 24 felony counts of performing illegal abortions beyond the state of Pennsylvania’s 24-week time limit, and 227 misdemeanor counts of violating the 24-hour informed consent law.
The murder charges related to an adult patient, Karnamaya Mongar, who died following an abortion procedure, and seven newborns killed by having their spinal cords severed with scissors after being born alive during attempted abortions. In May 2013, Gosnell was convicted of first degree murder in the deaths of three of the infants and involuntary manslaughter in Mongar’s death. Gosnell was also convicted of 21 felony counts of illegal late-term abortion, and 211 counts of violating the 24-hour informed consent law. Gosnell waived his right to appeal in exchange for an agreement not to seek the death penalty. He was sentenced instead to life in prison without the possibility of parole.”
The closest the film comes to depicting an abortion is when detectives raid Gosnell’s filthy clinic and discover dozens of jars filled with baby feet. It is enough to reach all but the hardest of hearts.
Earl Billings, the actor who plays Gosnell, depicts a cold and cynical man who seems to have insulated himself from what he has done, rationalizing that he is helping desperate women who can’t get late-term abortions elsewhere.
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Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups are likely to brand the film propaganda, but what these organizations have long promoted to women — that they will find relief, their lives will be better and what they are discarding is not yet completely human — is the real propaganda.
In his book “Crusade in Europe,” Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote about the Nazi death camps he visited at the end of World War II. He ordered photographers to take pictures of the dead bodies that had not yet been incinerated and the emaciated bodies of those still clinging to life. Eisenhower believed it important to record these scenes because he rightly feared there would be Holocaust deniers.
Here’s what he wrote: “The same day [April 12, 1945] I saw my first horror camp. It was near the town of Gotha. I have never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency. Up to that time I had known about it only generally or through secondary sources. I am certain, however that I have never at any other time experienced an equal sense of shock.”
While not nearly as gruesome as the death camps Eisenhower saw, the film “Gosnell” forces viewers to confront what has been done to 60 million (so far) babies and women in America since abortion became legal in 1973. It’s worth seeing with someone on the fence about abortion and even a pro-choice person who is honest enough to consider the counterargument affirming life at all stages.
According to the Pew Research Center, opinions on abortion between 1995 and 2017 have remained fairly stable with “57 percent say(ing) abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 40 percent say it should be illegal in all or most cases.”
“Gosnell” could move those numbers in a pro-life direction.
I’m going Saturday night. It will be the first movie I have attended since I took my granddaughter to see the Peanuts movie. I think that was five years ago.
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”
3So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel. 4But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
5Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6“O house of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? declares the LORD. Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
7At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed. 8But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to inflict.
9And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom, 10and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
11Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
Jeremiah 18
The last movie I saw was Jurassic World II.
I went last night because I waited over a year (longer really) for this movie to come out and I would not wait one more day.
Like I told everyone in another thread I was the only one in the theater! Am really not surprised it was not due to be released until today so even the theatre must be surprised someone came out.
The last time I just had to be at a first day first showing of a movie a movie like this? Way back in 1993 when the very first Jurassic Park came out. Even then I had to come back again the next day and watch it because the dinos were so scary I hid under the seat every time they came out. They were not Sid and Marty Kroftt puppets they were the real deal!
Rush just gave a huge bump to this movie.
Liberals want to depopulate Mother Earth.
This is what the unborn babies were called in congressional testimony years ago. l I'll never forget what a nasty foul invective to be used against the helpless unborn.
This is a sad reality of our society. Killing babies while half born is murder to. Abortion is just a horrible euphemism for murder.
JoMa
It was a shout out for his buddy Nick Searcy who directed this film.
Nick starred on Justified and was on stake out listening to Rush on the radio. How that scene stayed in is a mystery to me.
did anyone post it??
Later, each hour usually gets posted.
“It was a shout out for his buddy Nick Searcy who directed this film.”
Nick did a darn good job at directing this film. Better than Colin Trevveroow (not Steven Speilberg) did at Jurassic World did!
Ping me when it’s posted!!!
I guess it’s not posted. I checked the transcripts and not there. Rush used the article from PJ Media when giving his short dialog.
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/the-mainstream-media-doesnt-want-you-to-watch-gosnell/
Somebody gave me a movie ticket gift card about 5 years ago. I still haven’t used it. I’ll be using it Saturday. Now I can get the Senior discount.
If we hadn’t had such a high abortion rate, there wouldn’t be nearly such an immigration debate - we wouldn’t need to import foreigners to fill the labor demand, we’d have raised our own.
Good grief - why was he saving baby feet in jars?
Dude he had bodies all up in that clinic not just the feet in jars.
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