There are two murder trials happening right now which have caught my attention: the trial of Luka Magnotta in Canada, and the one of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in the US.
Both men butchered humans, severed body parts, and even bragged about it.
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A year ago, headlines around the world announced the manhunt for Canada's cannibal killer, Luka Magnotta. This killer butchered an innocent man, filmed the entire ordeal and uploaded it to an internet site for the world to see. Then Mr. Magnotta mailed the severed body parts to various people across Canada, including Jenni Byrne of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a young man who had a troubled upbringing, allegedly suffered abuse at at the hand of his own grandmother, he was a porn star, a stripper and an escort. He killed kittens. He murdered one man...that we know of.
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Dr. Gosnell is an older man who ran two multi-million dollar abortion clinics. He violated several state laws in the way he ran his clinic. He stripped, restrained and forced an abortion on a teenager after she changed her mind. He illegally dispensed thousands of prescriptions out of his clinic, in particular oxycodone, which is why the authorities raided his business in the first place. It was at that point that Gosnell's " House of Horrors" was discovered. He's a medical doctor who made his fortune by killing thousands of unborn babies, one woman, and eight born babies...that we know of.
Magnotta is charged with first-degree murder, among other charges. Gosnell is charged with eight counts of first-degree murder, among other charges.
They are both on trial for murder, so what's the problem? My issue is the lack of media attention for the Gosnell case, and the thousands of unborn victims who go unrecognized.
We know that Magnotta killed at least one person. However, we know Gosnell killed thousands, yet he is only facing eight counts of murder charges. Gosnell is only culpable for the deaths of the babies who managed to take two breaths before he expertly snipped their heads with scissors. Never mind the thousands in utero to whom he did the same; nah- who cares about those babies. Let's only pay attention to the ones who had the privilege of living a few seconds longer, and then got the scissors snip to the skull. When will Gosnell see his day in court for those voiceless victims?
Where's the media? It seems that every tv news outlet outside of Fox news and Sun News is avoiding covering the Gosnell case. Yet, Magnotta is getting his sought-after international media attention, with papers around the world covering every detail of his case. Most of the coverage I've seen gives more sympathy to the kittens Magnotta killed than the thousands of unborn and born babies Gosnel killed. Where's the equality? Where's the outrage? People are calling for Magnotta's head, but it appears that south of the border, the media and the public seem OK with a mass-murderer hiding behind his medical doctor's degree.
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Oh wait, there was one piece of outrage regarding the Gosnell case- it was a story blaming the pro-lifers for protesting at clinics, the government for not having ease of access for abortion, and society for not being pro-choice enough. The media is blaming everyone except the butcher himself and the culture of death that gives Gosnell the power over life and death. It's simply disingenuous to blame the pro-lifers for "forcing" women to the seediest abortion clinic in town. With that story the media has hit yet another low. Nice to see the media can take its head out of the sand and come up with that trash.
So yes, this is the tale of two butchers, but only one is getting his true day in the media and in court.
Both men butchered humans, severed body parts, and even bragged about it.
A year ago, headlines around the world announced the manhunt for Canada's cannibal killer, Luka Magnotta. This killer butchered an innocent man, filmed the entire ordeal and uploaded it to an internet site for the world to see. Then Mr. Magnotta mailed the severed body parts to various people across Canada, including Jenni Byrne of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a young man who had a troubled upbringing, allegedly suffered abuse at at the hand of his own grandmother, he was a porn star, a stripper and an escort. He killed kittens. He murdered one man...that we know of.
Dr. Gosnell is an older man who ran two multi-million dollar abortion clinics. He violated several state laws in the way he ran his clinic. He stripped, restrained and forced an abortion on a teenager after she changed her mind. He illegally dispensed thousands of prescriptions out of his clinic, in particular oxycodone, which is why the authorities raided his business in the first place. It was at that point that Gosnell's " House of Horrors" was discovered. He's a medical doctor who made his fortune by killing thousands of unborn babies, one woman, and eight born babies...that we know of.
Magnotta is charged with first-degree murder, among other charges. Gosnell is charged with eight counts of first-degree murder, among other charges.
They are both on trial for murder, so what's the problem? My issue is the lack of media attention for the Gosnell case, and the thousands of unborn victims who go unrecognized.
We know that Magnotta killed at least one person. However, we know Gosnell killed thousands, yet he is only facing eight counts of murder charges. Gosnell is only culpable for the deaths of the babies who managed to take two breaths before he expertly snipped their heads with scissors. Never mind the thousands in utero to whom he did the same; nah- who cares about those babies. Let's only pay attention to the ones who had the privilege of living a few seconds longer, and then got the scissors snip to the skull. When will Gosnell see his day in court for those voiceless victims?
Where's the media? It seems that every tv news outlet outside of Fox news and Sun News is avoiding covering the Gosnell case. Yet, Magnotta is getting his sought-after international media attention, with papers around the world covering every detail of his case. Most of the coverage I've seen gives more sympathy to the kittens Magnotta killed than the thousands of unborn and born babies Gosnel killed. Where's the equality? Where's the outrage? People are calling for Magnotta's head, but it appears that south of the border, the media and the public seem OK with a mass-murderer hiding behind his medical doctor's degree.
Oh wait, there was one piece of outrage regarding the Gosnell case- it was a story blaming the pro-lifers for protesting at clinics, the government for not having ease of access for abortion, and society for not being pro-choice enough. The media is blaming everyone except the butcher himself and the culture of death that gives Gosnell the power over life and death. It's simply disingenuous to blame the pro-lifers for "forcing" women to the seediest abortion clinic in town. With that story the media has hit yet another low. Nice to see the media can take its head out of the sand and come up with that trash.So yes, this is the tale of two butchers, but only one is getting his true day in the media and in court.
