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Amid new concerns about the brutality of illegal forms of abortions, President Obama plans to deliver the keynote address at Planned Parenthood Federation of Americas annual fundraising dinner Thursday.
Read more: Obama to keynote Planned Parenthood fundraiser - Washington Times
In the meantime....
Prosecutors have laid out grim details as they have presented their case to a Philadelphia jury over the past five weeks, describing how Gosnell allegedly used scissors to snip the spinal chord of newborns after they had emerged, alive, from delivery.
"If the baby is alive and you don't want it to be, that doesn't mean you have the right to take a pair of scissors and plunge it into the baby's neck," prosecutor Joanne Pescatore said during opening statements.
Gosnell is fighting the charges.
His attorney, Jack J. McMahon called the trial "an elitist, racist prosecution,"
noting that his client, a black man, mainly treated women of color.
Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell Condemned by Pro-Abortion Rights Groups - ABC News
Abortion statistics:
ome FACTS about abortion..
Black women are more than 4.8 times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion,
and Hispanic women are 2.7 times as likely (AGI).
REASONS for killing 1.5 million a year..
12% of women included a physical problem with their health among reasons for having an abortion (NAF).
1%(of aborting women) reported that they were the survivors of rape (NAF).
13%
The remaining 87% of reasons for having killing 1.5 million people a year:
3 reasons for ELECTING abortion:
-- say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities; about
-- say they cannot afford a child; and
-- say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner (AGI).
Facts About Abortion: U.S. Abortion Statistics
Read more: Obama to keynote Planned Parenthood fundraiser - Washington Times
In the meantime....
Prosecutors have laid out grim details as they have presented their case to a Philadelphia jury over the past five weeks, describing how Gosnell allegedly used scissors to snip the spinal chord of newborns after they had emerged, alive, from delivery.
"If the baby is alive and you don't want it to be, that doesn't mean you have the right to take a pair of scissors and plunge it into the baby's neck," prosecutor Joanne Pescatore said during opening statements.
Gosnell is fighting the charges.
His attorney, Jack J. McMahon called the trial "an elitist, racist prosecution,"
noting that his client, a black man, mainly treated women of color.
Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell Condemned by Pro-Abortion Rights Groups - ABC News
Abortion statistics:
ome FACTS about abortion..
- 36.6% were performed on women with one or two prior abortions, and
- 8.1% were performed on women with three or more prior abortions (CDC).
- 44.7% or nearly half by women who are either stupid, definitely don't use birth control AND SHOULD BE STERILIZED if they
Black women are more than 4.8 times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion,
and Hispanic women are 2.7 times as likely (AGI).
REASONS for killing 1.5 million a year..
12% of women included a physical problem with their health among reasons for having an abortion (NAF).
1%(of aborting women) reported that they were the survivors of rape (NAF).
13%
The remaining 87% of reasons for having killing 1.5 million people a year:
3 reasons for ELECTING abortion:
-- say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities; about
-- say they cannot afford a child; and
-- say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner (AGI).
Facts About Abortion: U.S. Abortion Statistics
