Abortionist Gosnell,72, sentenced: Life isn’t long enough

Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist responsible for cutting the spines of babies born alive after botched late term abortions was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder.  A 41-year-old mother also died. Today he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

Not nearly long enough.

A high living multi-millionaire, Gosnell was convicted of infanticide, racketeering and more than 200 counts of violating Pennsylvania’s abortion laws by performing third-term abortions.

ABC 6 Action News in Philadelphia has the report and video.

Seeing Red AZ’s previous posts about this murderous butcher are linked here, as is the horrific Grand Jury Report where the gruesome details were originally filed in January 2011 by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Cardinal O’Malley: A man to honor on Mother’s Day

A righteous man stands tall for life

Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, has issued this statement announcing his intention to boycott Boston College’s upcoming commencement ceremony. Enda Kenny, the Prime Minister of Ireland, will be the commencement speaker and is slated to receive an honorary degree at Boston College’s graduation.

Cardinal O’Malley has publicly opposed Ireland’s proposed abortion law, which Kenny has resolutely promoted.

The Cardinal Newman Society reports O’Malley has challenged Boston College for inviting the pro-abortion commencement speaker. He urged Boston College to “work to redress the confusion, disappointment and harm caused by not adhering to the Bishops’ directives,” referencing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops instruction that Catholic institutions not honor those whose views are inconsistent with the Church’s teachings.

By tradition, the Boston archbishop delivers the final benediction at BC’s commencement each spring. The college is scheduled to award Kenny an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the May 20 ceremony. 

In his statement, O’Malley said the church considers abortion “a crime against humanity’’ and he noted that Kenny has been “aggressively promoting abortion legislation’’ despite opposition from church leaders in Ireland.

“Although I shall not be present to impart the final benediction, I assure the graduates that they are in my prayers on this important day in their lives, and I pray that their studies will prepare them to be heralds of the Church’s Social Gospel and “men and women for others,” especially for the most vulnerable in our midst,” Cardinal O’Malley’s statement said.

Cardinal O’Malley’s office number is (617) 254-0100. You might want to call and leave a message of appreciation for this outstanding and principled man.

Obama to Planned Parenthood: “God bless you!”

Largest abortion provider gets sanctification from Obama:

They do such good work, after all. If you’ve read anything at all about the Kermit Gosnell infanticide trial, you’d realize why abortions are worthy of this president’s commendation. Not surprisingly, Barack Obama is the first sitting President to ever appear at such a gala. This event took place Friday in Washington, D.C.

Vowing he would never allow Republicans to cut taxpayer funds for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Obama said, “If there’s one thing the past few years have shown, it’s that Planned Parenthood isn’t going anywhere.” The crowd cheered wildly, presenting him with a standing ovation. “It’s not going anywhere today, it’s not going anywhere tomorrow.” 

“Everybody sit down,” Obama demurred. “You’re making me blush.”

In its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood bragged that it performed 333,964 abortions in 2011 – a record year for the group.

The abortion profiteers have received a record $542 million in taxpayer funding — in the form of government grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements — according to a Susan B. Anthony List analysis of the report. The amount is 45 percent of Planned Parenthood’s annual revenue.

Charlie Spiering writing for the Washington Examiner has more here.

Gosnell murder trial: Where’s the media?

Infanticide trial ignored: ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC have given zero coverage

Kirsten Powers, a self identified liberal, rightly says, “This clearly should be national news. Liberals want government regulation of every single thing — air, water, animals, (inaudible), banks, you name it” — and, she admits, “I put myself in that category. But they have this one little area where they say ‘no government regulation.’ It doesn’t make any sense, and I think we need to examine that.”

Power’s USA Today column, “We’ve forgotten what belongs on Page One,” deserves your attention.

The gruesome details in Conor Friedersdorf’s Atlantic article, “Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Trial Should Be a Major News Story,” do not make for easy reading, but they will educate regarding the horrors of the abortion industry. Gosnell, 72, regularly and illegally delivered live, viable third-trimester babies and murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors, referring to this practice as “ensuring fetal demise.”

He is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of babies who were born alive and murdered, as well as a 41-year-old mother who died after a botched abortion in his clinic.

In 2011, Seeing Red AZ marked the 38^th anniversary of Roe v. Wade with this post about abortionist Kermit Gosnell, including his joking about one of the babies he brutally murdered being “so large he could walk me to the bus stop.” 

The Grand Jury Report filed by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office in the Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania Criminal Trial Division, can be read here. 

Gov. Jan Brewer: Doing Obama‘s job in AZ

Gov. Brewer is showing her allegiance to the Obama agenda in various ways — all of them troubling.  We recently wrote about the numerous statewide Legislative Districts and County Executive Committees that have passed resolutions in opposition to the Governor’s Medicaid Expansion (AHCCCS) in support of ObamaCare — which includes expansion of funding for abortion providers. We noted it was an odd step for the pro-life governor.

The entire Democrat caucus supported this outrageous and economically unsustainable government overreach.

Now Republican Brewer is touting her signing of HB 2425, a gigantic leap in implementing the Obama administration’s insidious Common Core Standards so beloved by the left. Every Democrat in both the AZ House and Senate voted for this bill, also. The Maricopa County Executive Guidance Committee unanimously passed a resolution opposing Common Core.

It is interesting to note that Gov. Brewer took 10 days before signing SB1070 into law.  Yet she took less than 10 hours to sign legislation supporting the Obama education plan endorsed by uber-liberal U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Conservative Columnist Michelle Malkin has a series devoted to this program, which she has aptly named Rotten to the Core. Gov. Brewer must have missed an installment or two.

H/T:  “Surrender art” GilbertWatch

AZ Medicaid expansion takes a major blow

Abortion funding assured under Gov. Brewer’s surrender to ObamaCare

In addition to the continually mounting grassroots opposition of Republican activists in counties and districts across Arizona to Gov. Jan Brewer’s reckless Medicaid expansion, we now have this letter from M. Casey Mattox, Senior Counsel with the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Mattox’s letter is in response to a request for clarity from State Rep. Justin Olson (R-LD 25). In it, Mattox unequivocally defines the impact of the proposed expansion on funding for abortion providers, stating, “In our judgment, expanding Medicaid pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) would necessarily result in increased funding of abortion providers in Arizona and would subsidize abortions.”

It doesn’t get much clearer than that. The facts contained in his legal response also raise some key questions:

Why would Gov. Brewer, regarded as one of the most pro-life governors in the country, be pushing this agenda that will result in death to countless pre-born Arizona babies?  Will this news cause the Arizona Conference of Catholic Bishops to rethink their support of the expansion?

We also include this letter to Gov. Brewer and AZ House and Senate leadership from Cathi Herrod, President of pro-life, pro-family Center for Arizona Policy. Oddly the organization “remains neutral” on the massive and costly federal intrusion into our personal health care delivery system, although offering alternative language to the Medicaid legislation, to guarantee “no increased funding to abortion providers results” from the implementation of the health care scheme.

We applaud all pro-life efforts, on either end of the life cycle. But taking a resolute stand against the encroachment of socialism in no way diminishes the importance of honoring the sanctity of life.

And although Obama vowed the new law will bring costs down, a startling  new study released by the Society of Actuaries says claims cost, the most important driver of health care premiums, will jump an average 32 percent, with the costs to many soaring much higher. (Read paragraph four in the link).

The REAL Doug Little: 23 executive orders? “It really wasn’t that big of a deal”

Abortion, illegal immigration: “Extreme issues driving people from the Republican Party”

It’s doubtful any conservative state committeemen need persuasion regarding the GOP State Chairman’s election on Saturday.  But if any fence sitters require more information to make an informed choice, we provide it here.  Not by rumor and innuendo, but with actual spoken words.

On Tuesday night there was a candidate debate in Pinal County. When the discussion turned to the 23 executive orders recently imposed by Barack Obama restricting firearms and ammo, listen carefully to the views expressed by Doug Little. He said, “Well guys, …I‘m sort of torn here, ‘cuz I want to get you revved up…but it wasn‘t as bad as we thought.”

That‘s right.  Doug Little says of Obama‘s gun grab, “It really wasn’t that big of a deal.”

For him, it wouldn’t be.  After all, he’s a tactical weapons trainer. He makes his living by training the SWAT guys he talks about in yet another video.

But that’s not all. Doug Little makes it clear he wants to change the Republican Party.

Doug Little says, “People leave the Republican Party because they can’t stand the tone. Because they don’t care about some of the extreme positions that certain people take. We have to change the message…I want people listening to what we have to say in an environment where people are not in their face about something like immigration or something about abortion or some other contentious or divisive issue.”

Then ask yourself why high profile conservatives statewide are lining up behind Robert Graham.

This is Robert Graham.

Jan. 22, 2013: Marking 40 years since Roe v. Wade

Pro-Life rally, noon today, U.S. District Court Building, 401 W. Washington St., Phoenix

More than 55 million American babies have had their lives legally snuffed out since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court travesty known as Roe v. Wade — when our nation’s highest court inexplicably ruled that state sanctioned slaughter of the most innocent was found in the previously unheard of right to privacy. Over the intervening years, tens of millions of pre-born human babies have been killed — residing in what ought to be the safest place on Earth — the sanctuary of their mother’s uterus.

Take the time to watch as image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth.

Abortion on demand has taken a staggering toll on America. To this hedonistic whim of the left, we’ve lost more than 55 million of our sons, daughters and grandchildren — who should have been granted the Constitutional assurances of “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” rather than be subjected to a hideous and early death.

Phoenix Dad with gun stops intruder

A quote worth contemplating

As his daughters, ages 4 and 7 slept, a Phoenix father stopped a home invasion suspect trying to break through their bedroom window just before 2:00 am. Wednesday.  The father shot the man three times, fatally wounding him.

The attempted forced entry occurred in the area of 28^th Avenue and Acoma, where the man was previously observed trying to break into cars.

The suspect, who has not been identified, is described as a 35-year-old white male, who was acting irrationally, and appeared to pull a weapon from his pants.

Police say the homeowner, who was simply trying to protect his family, was not arrested.

 “The only thing that will stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun.”

– Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President.

Jon Kyl: AZ República bids him a slobbering farewell

Liberal newspaper never disappoints

Sunday’s daily has a slobbering and lengthy paean to retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, referred to as a “real workhorse.” Reporter Dan Nowicki licks Kyl’s boots in the best of fashion, although he omits pertinent facts. As a refresher, we’ll include only a few since the deceptive elitist Kyl’s foot is already on a banana peel and he has insured a continuation of his aisle-crossing legacy by endorsing his replacement, Jeff Flake. 

Here, with Kyl’s mailer included, is clear evidence that the man Nowicki refers to as “Arizona’s highest-ranking lawmaker in Washington in decades,” still had plenty of time to meddle in lowly precinct committeeman elections in neighborhood districts as he promoted RINO candidates.

And more?

“I had hoped to stay out of the Republican senate primary,” (campaign video) proclaims a striving-to-sound-earnest Jon Kyl in this ad supporting Jeff Flake. To demonstrate his sincerity, he has doffed his tie and shakes his head in disbelief as he struggles to convey the gravity involved in getting his hand-picked successor elected to fill the senate vacancy created by his retirement. “Jeff Flake is my choice,” declared a somber and clearly worried Kyl. If his claim to stay out of the senate primary sounds more than a bit phony, it’s due to the fact that Kyl and his seatmate John McCain crisscrossed the state with Flake following an in-tandem endorsement of Flake nearly three weeks earlier — clear evidence that they regard the electorate as fools.

Here’s Kyl’s own farcical 2006 primary campaign ad, in which he used Republican and Democrat Arizona Sheriffs as dupes as he staged his feigned support of securing the porous border, which serves as the major portal for illegal immigration into the United States. Yet immediately after returning to Washington, he joined McCain for another round of what they cunningly termed “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” –  nothing short of a euphemism for amnesty.

Kyl has voted for the confirmation of numerous liberal Democrats. In June, he supported Obama’s appointment of Andrew Hurwitz to the already far-left Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the most overturned court in the nation. He previously supported Mary Murguia, another amnesty proponent, to the same federal appellate court. Judge Murguia’s twin sister, Janet Murguia, is the President and CEO of the racist National Council of La Raza.

Kyl and McCain also voted in support of the confirmation of Eric Holder, Obama’s hand-picked selectee for U.S. Attorney General. Twenty-one Republicans voted against Holder, but not these two enablers. They even voted in support of the nomination of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. After numerous unsuccessful searches to verify the duo’s vote on Janet Napolitano, the best answer was found here.

Promoting himself as pro-life, he hosted high-dollar fundraising events for pro-abortion RINO Maine Senator Susan Collins 3,000 miles from her home, here in Arizona. Both Collins and her equally liberal-so called Republican colleague, Sen. Olympia Snowe voted with the Democrats for ObamaCare, the nationalized overhaul of America’s health care delivery system.

Jon Kyl is a liberal wearing a Republican cloak. Expect the same from Jeff Flake.