Why don't we all recognize this horror?

October 15, 2020 By Alicia Colon 

  Anyone who sees this photo and doesn't recognize this as horror needs to look in the mirror in shame.

Recently, my pastor noted during his homily that it was Respect Life week.  He mentioned that President Trump had signed an executive order to protect babies born alive.  The order reads: "Every infant born alive, no matter the circumstances of his or her birth, has the same dignity and the same rights as every other individual and is entitled to the same protections under federal law."

 I wasn't sure why he issued this order because President George Bush had signed into law H.R. 2175 — the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002.  Trump's executive order specifies that it will enforce the medical care requirement and prioritize funding for programs that either research improvements to life-saving care or train medical personnel to provide that type of treatment.  In other words, it's obvious that the protection act was not being fully enforced. 

In 2011, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was arrested in his filthy facility in Pennsylvania.  Prosecutors alleged that he killed seven babies born alive by severing their spinal cords with scissors and that he was also responsible for the death in 2009 of Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old refugee from Bhutan who died in his care.  The Pennsylvania Department of State and the Philadelphia Public Health Department also had ample warning of dire conditions and took no action.  In 2011, it was reported that none of Pennsylvania's 22 abortion facilities had been inspected by the government for more than 15 years.  

Inspections (other than those triggered by complaints) had ceased under Republican Tom Ridge's governorship, as they were perceived to create a barrier to women seeking abortions.  Ironically, progressives were overjoyed that Ridge recently declared that he was voting for Joe Biden because he has "more humanity" than Trump.  Once a RINO, always a RINO.............To Reads More........