#Gosnell Social Media Campaign Ends Abortion Trial Black Out

Mainstream media is suspiciously silent on the shocking story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, whose trial began March 18. Gosnell has been charged with first-degree murder of seven babies and one woman patient at his “House of Horrors” abortion clinic in Philadelphia. 

If found guilty, he faces the death penalty. Eight former employees pleaded guilty, some to third-degree murder, and one testified to working there at age 15. On Friday, a grassroots social media campaign was started to break the media blackout and within minutes #Gosnell became the top trend on Twitter.

LifeNews.com has reported that 21 pro-life and conservative leaders have signed a statement denouncing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC for ignoring this case. The statement calls the media blackout on the two stories a “national disgrace.”

Only LiveNews.com, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Fox News have reported extensively on the case. Fox News’ Bret Baier had a panel discussion yesterday on the media bias. Media watchdog site NewsBusters.org reported that ABC, CBS and NBC have completely ignored the trial. 

“In Gosnell’s clinic, police found severed baby feet of various sizes kept in see-through containers and bodies of babies in a freezer and in the basement,” NewsBusters reported. “The upper spinal cords of some of the babies had been severed. Although Gosnell was charged with eight counts of murder, witnesses have testified he murdered over 100 babies over three decades. If true, this would rank Gosnell as one of the top five known serial killers worldwide of the 20th and 21st Centuries.”

Pro-life activist, Monica Migliorino Miller, PhD author of Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars, said their silence reveals what they are about. “It is a sad fact that the majority of journalists support legalized abortion,” she said. “If they were to pay attention to the Gosnell horror-story this would bring attention to the scandal of legalized abortion and they simply will not allow their unholy sacrament to be touched!” She has seen such silence many times in her 37 years fighting against abortion.

”America has gotten used to death, and in particular, the deaths of the unborn in abortion is simply not considered news no matter how horribly they die. Perhaps it’s not just Gosnell who should stand trial,” she said, “but our whole national ethic that needs to be indicted for permitting such killing in the first place.”