Archbishop Chaput on the Gosnell Murder Trial
Here is what Archbishop Chaput had to say in his latest column in the Catholic Philly about the murder trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who practiced in Philadelphia: Some stories, no matter how unsettling, just can’t be ignored — even when some people are determined to look away. The murder trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell will soon go to jury. And like every other criminally accused person under the law, Gosnell is innocent until proven guilty. Whatever the verdict though, there’s no ambiguity about the kind of business he ran at his West Philadelphia “Women’s Medical Center” — an abortion clinic that critics have likened to a meatpacking plant or a butcher shop, with unborn children delivered into a toilet, and jars of fetal body parts stored around the facility. Dr. Gosnell was originally charged with one count of infanticide and five counts of “abuse of corpse” for killing fetuses born alive by plunging scissors into their n...
