Dr. Richard Grossman M.D. is the only abortionist in over 200 miles, and he's not shy about publicly touting his grisly profession. Posted on 05/30/2010 11:48:20 AM PDT by narses
Dr. Richard Grossman M.D. is the only abortionist in over 200 miles, and he's not shy about publicly touting his grisly profession.
Every Wednesday of every week, Dr. Grossman kills children at the Durango Planned Parenthood. He charges a sliding scale based on the age of the child. For killing a child of 5-11 weeks he charges $425, 12-13 weeks $515, 14-15 weeks $780, and 16-17 weeks costs $880.
Pictures of what each of these children look like after they are aborted at these different stages of development can be seen here.
I first learned of Dr. Grossman, on Wednesday, Novemeber 18, 2009. I was participating in a vigil outside the abortuary that was organized by Life Guard of La Plata, a Catholic non-profit organization that helps mothers in crisis pregnancies. During this vigil, pro-lifers told me about Dr. Grossman.
I already knew what abortionists do, and I was saddened to see approximately six young ladies escorted in to participate in the killing of their children. What I wasn't ready for was to learn what Dr. Grossman did on the other days when he wasn't killing children.
Dr. Grossman worked, and still works at a Catholic hospital, Mercy Regional Medical Center, as a staff physician with full medical privileges!
Here is a man that kills children once a week, and he is employed by a hospital that is supposed to share my belief that what he does is murder? What in the world was going on? I immediately fired off an email to my Bishops.
Despite repeated entreaties to my Bishops, I have not learned of any action being taken to end this scandalous situation. I have since learned that local pro-life activists (Catholic and Protestant) have been trying to get the Catholic church to step in and stop Dr. Grossman for at least three years!
It should be noted, that while I realize that it is scandalous to point out this ongoing situation within the Catholic church, it is a much more egregious scandal to let it continue unaddressed.
Dr. Grossman would not be able to financially maintain himself on what he earns killing children one day a week. Does this not make Mercy Hospital in Durango and the Catholic Church a material facilitator to the killing? In effect, the Catholic Church, Mercy Hospital, and the Catholic Health Initiatives (based in Denver) are subsidizing abortion services in the Four Corners area.
If that were not bad enough, and it is, Dr. Grossman openly promotes eugenics in his regular column for the local Durango newspaper, the Durango Herald in a column entitled Population Matters.
It seems that the Catholic church is not capable of putting a stop to Dr. Grossman's evil audacity. The reason, according to local activists, is that the hospital and the church fear federal employement discrimination lawsuits. There is, however, a valid basis to believe that this Catholic hospital would be within its right to fire a murderer such as Dr. Grossman, although it is more likely that the church would lose a lawsuit from Dr. Grossman.
When it comes down to it what makes a church like the Catholic church great is its claim to be the repository of the Truth, not the health of its bank accounts.
In an age when the Catholic church is sued on an almost daily basis, wouldn't it be refreshing if the church were sued for preventing child killing at its hospitals instead of for allowing children to be molested.
I for one would welcome the fight. In the meantime I will be helping activists in the Durango area protest, not only at the abortuary, but at the Catholic hospital that makes it possible for Dr. Grossman to kill children and still make a good living.
They have plenty of connections.
Connections are not control.
They’re not. He does his killing at Planned Parenthood. Did you read the article?
It’s a private activity in that the Doctor is doing these activities (since “performing actions” bothers you so much) when he is not at work.
No, but you can get alot done with the right connections.
Connections does not automatically mean right connections.
So, because John Wayne Gacy & Jeffrey Dahmer murdered boys in the "private" confines of houses (for Dahmer it was his grandmother's house and later his apartment), would you define their "activity" as "private", too? (Or is it just possible that describing dismemberment, which certainly is what Dahmer shared in common with abortionists' need to dismember their victims, as "private activities" tends to border on a ludicrous description of heinous acts?)
Well, that’s what I meant.
“Dr. Grossman worked, and still works at a Catholic hospital, Mercy Regional Medical Center, as a staff physician with full medical privileges!”
Yes, but this DOES NOT mean that the hospital is accommodating or financing abortions. Don’t get me wrong, I would like to see his privileges removed, but making statements that are factually incorrect will do nothing to accomplish that.
You live up to your namesake.
Let me get this straight. The first woman to be executed in this country was convicted because she hosted an assassin. And however much she may have been "innocent" of the eventual charges which got her hung, there was enough "evidence" at least to "convict" her of something negative, scandal-wise, in the press alone.
But, on the other hand, you tell us that just because a Catholic hospital "hosts" this abortionist...as long as he keeps his grisly practice on the "outer limit boundaries" of Mercy Hospital...hey, at least we're actin' like Sargent Joe Friday ("just the facts, ma'am").
You wrote:
“Neither 1,2 or 3 says anything about financing or subsidizing which is, of course, the point of my question and one of the article.”
If the point of your question was “about financing or subsidizing” then I would expect to see one of those who issues raised in your question. You, instead, asked this: “If the article is mistaken, what is the Catholic church’s relationship to the hospital and those who practice there?”
Where in that question did you mention “subsidizing” or “financing”? I suggest you figure out what it is you actually want to ask before you post. You seem to be claiming to be thinking of one issue and actually posting a question about another.
Are “Catholic” hospitals Catholic in name only or do they have a financial connection with the Catholic church through the bishops or charitable organizations, etc.?
Ann Coulter put it best:
"I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others."
and
"I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester."
You wrote:
“Not at all, but I may have over estimated your ability to understand the question so I’ll make it even more simple:”
The simplest thing you could have done is actually asked the question you claimed to have asked. Do you normally not ask question you later claim to have asked?
“Are “Catholic” hospitals Catholic in name only or do they have a financial connection with the Catholic church through the bishops or charitable organizations, etc.?”
Catholic hospitals generally have no financial connection with the diocese they operate in. And a financial connection does not equate into financial authority of the bishop over the hospital.
Thank you.
Congratulations, Guabe!!
Personhood Now!
Hey, it’s not me who defines private. This is a LEGAL definition of private activities. By law. they are anything you do when you aren’t being paid by some entity, when you aren’t on company time.
I didn’t make the definitions. Don’t be accusatory of me.
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