This. Is. Abortion.

Philly.com:

IN HIS SQUALID West Philadelphia abortion clinic, Kermit Gosnell had a surefire way of dealing with the unwelcome complication of a live birth: He'd allegedly plunge scissors into the squirming newborn's neck, killing it by severing the spinal cord.

Sometimes, the elderly physician didn't do this right away. Often, he allegedly gave the chore to his unlicensed office staff. One premature infant wiggled around on a counter for 20 minutes before an untrained worker slit his neck - after first playing with him.

Those allegations were among countless bombshells in a 261-page grand-jury report that District Attorney Seth Williams released yesterday.

Gosnell killed "hundreds" of babies and at least two women during abortions from 1979 to last year at his Women's Medical Society at 38th Street and Lancaster Avenue, according to the grand jury. Further, he and his unlicensed, unskilled staff overdosed patients with drugs, perforated their wombs and bowels, and spread venereal disease by using unsterilized equipment, the report said.

So now I'm confused: Why is Gosner being charged with the deaths of 7 infants?

Isn't that what he was getting paid to do?

These women have a right not to be slaves to their biology by being "punished" with a baby; Isn't Kermit Gosner a "hero" for providing the valuable service of late term abortions? Isn't that how late term abortionist George Tiller was characterized when Scott Roeder gunned him down? Isn't the practice of severing the spines of infants born alive after botched abortions something that the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" would have made illegal? An act our pro-abortion President voted against?

And why are we horrified that the members of his staff stored their lunches in the same refrigerator with fetal remains? Aren't these just meaningless clumps of cells? Aren't those so-called infants whose spines were unceremoniously cut with scissors also just clumps of cells? Doesn't the mother have the ultimate determination over whether or not these clumps of cells are human when she decides whether or not to carry her pregnancy to term?

I'm at a loss as to why people are so horrified by this story. This is a natural result of the devaluing of human life. Whenever someone goes nuts with a gun, we immediately have to have a national conversation on common sense gun control. In the wake of the Arizona shootings we also had to have a national conversation about the "tone" of political debate. Yet in the wake of this ghoulish story from West Philadelphia, we hear nothing. No calls for more regulation, no calls for toning down the rhetoric of the screeching feminist left who holds the "right" of abortion above all others. When our President talks about not wanting his daughters "punished" with a baby, when candidates like Joe Hoeffel run for governor and pick a woman who has dedicated her life to promoting abortion and characterizing her as "standing with all women," it is no wonder that people like Kermit Gosner store severed fetus feet next to the bologna.

This is the devaluation of human life.

This. Is. Abortion.