BLINDED BY BIAS

From My Perspective - - -

Perhaps there is a level of naiveté still present in our nation that allows one to believe there will be those who will champion fairness, accuracy and integrity in terms of news. In an Internet News source – The Slate – a Column Headline is: “Kermit Gosnell: The Alleged Mass-Murderer and the Biased Media.” The rationale of the column that despite a heinous crime having been committed, a biased media has given it little or no notice or coverage. The issue – late-term abortions; live aborted babies having their throat slit or being beheaded; as well as other gruesome acts.

The Slate Column describes the clinic protocol: “Furniture and blankets were stained with blood. Instruments were not properly sterilized. Disposable medical supplies were not disposed of; they were reused, over and over again. Medical equipment – such as the defibrillator, the EKG, the pulse oximeter, the blood pressure cuff – was generally broken; even when it worked, it wasn’t used. The emergency exit was padlocked shut. And scattered throughout, in cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs, were fetal remains. It was a baby charnel house… That's the G-rated version. One woman, according to investigators, was "left lying in place for hours after Gosnell tore her cervix and colon while trying, unsuccessfully, to extract the fetus." Another woman was sent home when she "still had fetal parts inside her." Another woman died after untrained and unlicensed aides gave her "unmonitored, unrecorded intravenous injections of Demerol." Gosnell trained those aides to commit fraud, distorting ultrasounds to make the late-term pregnancies look less far advanced. Viable babies—hundreds of them, allegedly—were decapitated with scissors…”

The Slate Column raises this proposition: “So the question, raised by pro-lifers, is this: Explain to us why Gosnell isn't a national story. Somebody else can try. I can't explain it. It's never made sense to me, how a local crime story becomes a national story. Two words regarding a powerless Cruise Ship: "Bathroom Waste." CNN ran hours of coverage and grainy video of a stranded Carnival cruise ship, a situation that inconvenienced many and killed none. How does a missing college student or an angry man in a TSA line become part of Our National Conversation? I don't know. I do know that a reporter in the bubble is less likely to be compelled by the news of an arrested abortionist….” An obvious answer is that the Media is generally liberal in terms of personal perspective and – as a result - in most of their reporting. A hoax perpetrated regarding a well-known religious television speaker results in coverage and interviews. The viewpoint that what is in the womb of a woman is merely a “fetus” rather than a person allows all too many to avoid the atrocities of abortion and the murder of the innocents.

From the Christian Perspective, there cannot be silence. A criteria and principle to be embraced is expressed in Proverbs 31:8-9, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy." The New Living Translation of verse 8 is: “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those who are perishing.” Another reality is in terms of what is occurring within the womb of the pregnant woman. Psalm 139:13-17 is a beautiful expression: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!” The action of God is stated in Jeremiah 1:5 where the Lord stated: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Are you willing to be a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves? Are you willing to confront those blinded by bias and raise the Biblical Standard regarding the right to live? Are you ready to be engaged in the effort to Save-A-Life? Consider these things with me.