Molech’s Church Brings Out Heavy Artillery

from Stand Firm by David Fischler 

In the week or so since Leni Riefenstahl Inc. started paying attention to the trial of America’s biggest serial killer, the discomfort of the abortion industry has grown exponentially. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Planned Parenthood had brought out one of the big guns to try to stop the bleeding, as it were:

NOTED FEMINIST Gloria Steinem took the podium at the National Constitution Center on Tuesday night, addressing a crowd of 500 spanning four generations at Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania’s annual Spring Gathering.

Steinem’s talk came at a time when illegal-abortion doc Kermit Gosnell’s trial is highlighting the uglier side of the abortion issue in Philadelphia, and as state legislators are considering measures to limit abortion access under future government-funded health-insurance plans.

“The Gosnell trial has shifted the focus off the high-quality services we provide,” said Dayle Steinberg, the organization’s president and chief executive. “These are criminal, horrendous . . . acts and should be appropriately punished.”

Steinberg said that when Gosnell was in practice, women would sometimes come to Planned Parenthood for services after first visiting Gosnell’s West Philadelphia clinic, and would complain to staff about the conditions there.

“We would always encourage them to report it to the Department of Health,” Steinberg said as she sat with Steinem before Tuesday’s events.

So Planned Parenthood knew about “criminal, horrendous” acts being committed at Gosnell’s house of horrors (or at least about conditions bad enough that they constitute malpractice), and did nothing about it? They “encouraged” the women who came to them with complaints to go the the Health Department, but sat on that information themselves? Can you say “criminal negligence”?

Of the Gosnell trial, Steinem added: “It makes more clear why you need Planned Parenthood.”
Her speech, Steinem said beforehand, would aim to “remind us that reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right.” [Warning: graphic image.]

Steinem called the legislation being considered in Pennsylvania’s Legislature “self-defeating.” The bills would limit abortion covered by federally subsidized insurance to cases of rape, incest or those that are life-threatening.

“It’s putting women’s health at risk,” she said.

“There’s nothing on earth more important than what Planned Parenthood is doing,” she said. “It is connected to everything else.”

Feeding the hungry. Healing the sick. Protecting the innocent. Fighting fires and crime. Helping the poor. All good.

But nothing is more important than killing babies.

If I didn’t know better, I’d swear she was writing America’s epitaph.

(Via Hot Air.)