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.
Sure. Romans 13:1
You're very impressive.
So, you believe that Supreme Court decisions are ordained by God? That is a disgusting proposition.
Ask your local priest what he thinks Romans 13:1 means and then get back to me.
I’m not being coy about anything. You don’t know crap about me. I find it offensive you’d even suggest it.
I can ASSURE you that he DOES NOT think it means that abortion is a "right" which is ordained by God.
then he doesn’t trust god when he penned Romans 13
cussing at me doesn’t help your faithful cause any
Sure, he said:
Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.
find me a scripture
I read the information at your link, and it appears to state that the activities described in the article (and upsetting to the article's author) could be a scandal, but not the author's reporting of the activities.
I still don't understand why reporting those activities would be scandalous.
Am I missing something in your answer?
You wrote:
“Isn’t that what the word “subsidizing” means?”
No. For one thing, I think the article is simply misatken to say the Church is doing that since it isn’t. Second, to finance something implies that someone funded it upfront from the beginning and with knowledge of what was going on. That seems different than subsidizing, and I see no evidence whatsoever that the Church has ever handed this guy a single penny.
Jer 1:5; cf Job 10:8-12; Ps 22:10-1 1. ; Ps. 139:15.
Yes, scandal can be reporting the truth to those who do not need to know it. If this truth causes a loss in faith in a person for who no need of that particular detail existed, the telling of same is wrong. So, for example, if I know that a neighbor is having an affair, telling random people that truth could be a sin.
you wrote:
“oh come on i misread it i’m sure that’s a mortal sin right”
Misread? R-I-G-H-T. You so misread the article that you came up with this: “the nun gets excommunicated and this man is allowed to receive the sacrament of communion at his local church while also performing abortions himself”
Sorry, I don’t see how that is even remotely possible.
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He has priveleges at a Catholic hospital. They do not pay him a salary.
So should the Catholic Churcxh review all the private lives of the doctors they give priveleges to? What should they include as a reason to forbid priveleges, aside from performing abortions? Prescribing birth control? Working with unmarried couples? Living with someone out of wedlock themselves? Supporting a pro-abortion Democrat?
At what point does the activity that a doctor performs when he is not at work determine whether he should get priveleges?
You wrote:
“Injustice is injustice.”
And lying is morally wrong. So why did you do it?
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