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Abortion Doctor Charged with Murder

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Dr. Gosnell "induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord," Mr. Williams said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704590704576091920139004758.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I wonder what makes this doc any different than other abortion doc. I mean, if it's all about choice, why should it matter how far along the pregnancy is when it's terminated?
 
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This doc didn't preform legal abortions. Thats what.

Also, source?
The WSJ. I've added the link. What's the purpose of making any abortion illegal in the first place?
 
This is sick and disgusting. Hopefully America will learn a lesson from this atrocity. Whether inside or outside of the womb, abortion is murder. Were these women consenting to this? Was this a form of abortion for them? They should also be charged.
 
The WSJ. I've added the link. What's the purpose of making any abortion illegal in the first place?

Because an abortion at 8 months is killing a baby, while an abortion at 4 weeks isn't. Thats why.
 
This is sick and disgusting. Hopefully America will learn a lesson from this atrocity. Whether inside or outside of the womb, abortion is murder. Were these women consenting to this? Was this a form of abortion for them? They should also be charged.

"Murder" is a legal term. This story is murder. Not every abortion is murder.
 
Because an abortion at 8 months is killing a baby, while an abortion at 4 weeks isn't. Thats why.

Some abortion rights people think that until the fetus breathes air on it's own and it's cord is cut, it's not alive.

Then again, some people are ****ing nuts, too.
 
Abortion Doctor Charged With Murder - WSJ.com

I wonder what makes this doc any different than other abortion doc. I mean, if it's all about choice, why should it matter how far along the pregnancy is when it's terminated?

This is the worst atrocity possible on the planet earth. I trust the lives of everyone involved will be ruined and that they live in shame all the rest of their days. And fry in hell for an eternity.

Now what prochoice posters will defend this?? Makes me sick.
 
This is not an abortion doctor. This is a butcher.

No abortion should ever take place past the first trimester, barring extraordinary circumstances. Legally aborting a fetus when it's very near the point of viability is bad enough, but what this man has been doing, if true, is unspeakable. These babies were all viable, delivered alive and then murdered.

This is a serial killer. He even kept "trophies". How was he able to keep doing this for decades??
 
"Murder" is a legal term. This story is murder. Not every abortion is murder.
I agree. Murder is a legally defined crime that varies state to state. So the better question is what did this doc do that's worse than any abortion doc?
 
I agree. Murder is a legally defined crime that varies state to state. So the better question is what did this doc do that's worse than any abortion doc?

He broke the law. ;)
 
This is the worst atrocity possible on the planet earth. I trust the lives of everyone involved will be ruined and that they live in shame all the rest of their days. And fry in hell for an eternity.

Now what prochoice posters will defend this?? Makes me sick.

AMEN! I'm a Father of 4, and Pro Life. How anyone, and I mean ANYONE, Doctor or not, can take a living thing in its hands and cut its spinal cord is monsterous!


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If a woman is willing to kill her baby during pregnancy or after birth I don’t want her to have children. I would give abortions on demand and sterilize the woman.

75% or more of the people in prison were unwanted children.
 
"Murder" is a legal term. This story is murder. Not every abortion is murder.

It's also a moral idea. I believe every abortion is murder. I think it's illogical to allow the killing of fetuses inside a womb but have it illegal to force delivery and kill them outside the womb and have it legally be murder.
 
It's also a moral idea. I believe every abortion is murder. I think it's illogical to allow the killing of fetuses inside a womb but have it illegal to force delivery and kill them outside the womb and have it legally be murder.

You can believe that every abortion is killing, but not murder. Murder is a social construct.
 
You can believe that every abortion is killing, but not murder. Murder is a social construct.

It's also a legal and moral construct. Every abortion is a killing, and I believe every abortion outside of to save the mothers life is an unjust killing. Unjust killing is commonly called murder. I believe morally every abortion (outside of the one exception) is murder and the law should recognize it as such. The main point with this, is that it's murder to kill a delivered baby that is just as old as a fetus that is killed in the womb. It's illogical and further proves the unjust action of legalized abortion.
 
There is a pretty sizable difference in terminating a small congregation of cells at 4 weeks and an almost full sized baby at 8 months....
 
There is a pretty sizable difference in terminating a small congregation of cells at 4 weeks and an almost full sized baby at 8 months....

One could say the same about killing a 2 year old versus an adult. Can we put a value of life upon someone based on the amount of cells they have?
 
One could say the same about killing a 2 year old versus an adult. Can we put a value of life upon someone based on the amount of cells they have?

Yes we can, and do.
 
Yes we can, and do.

But we shouldn't it's wrong. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. But regardless, that logic would dictate that killing a 2 year old is less wrong than killing an adult because the difference in BCR's example was the cell count of the four week old fetus.
 
But we shouldn't it's wrong. Just because we can doesn't mean we should. But regardless, that logic would dictate that killing a 2 year old is less wrong than killing an adult because the difference in BCR's example was the cell count of the four week old fetus.

I think you are missing the point that there is a minimum threshold that must be met. A two year old qualifies as much as an adult does.
 
I think you are missing the point that there is a minimum threshold that must be met. A two year old qualifies as much as an adult does.

So once the minimum threshold of cells is met that merits killing anything under the threshold? What is that number? In this specific case, why is it ok to abort children in the womb, but not force delivery and kill it outside the womb?
 
So once the minimum threshold of cells is met that merits killing anything under the threshold? What is that number? In this specific case, why is it ok to abort children in the womb, but not force delivery and kill it outside the womb?

Because that is what society has determined. That's how social constructs work.
 
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