The Issue: The trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell and whether the media is unwilling to cover it.
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I would like to know why the media have ignored the Kermit Gosnell trial and his late-term abortion facility in Philadelphia (“The Darkest Side of Abortion,” Jonah Goldberg, PostOpinion, April 17).
This is a murder trial for the deaths of seven babies who were born alive and then horrifically killed.
Why would the media show no interest in this tragic human-rights story? Are they reluctant to report a story that could spark anti-abortion sentiment?
After the Sandy Hook murders and the subsequent declaration by our president that we must do better in protecting our children, where is the national outcry for seven children brutally murdered?
Are we afraid that if we look closely at this, we might be horrified enough to look more closely at the truth about abortion?
Nancy Kreuzer
Glen Ellyn, Ill.
This column reminded me of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, where there was a vote to banish God from the party’s platform. There was no sign of God in Gosnell’s little shop of horrors, either.
The left rightly rails against child murder but is wrongly focused upon the weapons that Adam Lanza and other mentally ill perpetrators used. It blithely preaches from a pulpit littered with the work of doctors like Gosnell. Ray Arroyo
Westwood, NJ
Goldberg, like many Americans, is dismayed that the gruesome trial of Gosnell has received minimal media coverage.
For many, it is easier to ignore the heartbreak of late-term abortion than to come to grips with the broad-based implications for us as a nation.
What would the reaction be if Gosnell was a veterinarian who aborted puppies and then killed those that survived the procedure?
Goldberg references Sen. Barbara Boxer, who said that constitutional rights begin when you bring the baby home from the hospital. How can one respond to a statement that is troubling on so many levels?
Richard A. Bucci
Binghamton