Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: OK to kill babies, but repealing Obamacare is murder

Jared Loughner killed six people this month and the leftwing media (but I repeat myself) were all over how he must have been inspired by rightwing rhetoric. Even after his friends told police that Loughner didn't even listen to radio or pay much attention to politics, the media would not surrender their preset narrative.

So how will Paul Krugman, Daily Kos, et. al., react to this: "West Philadelphia abortion doctor killed 7 babies with scissors."

WEST PHILADELPHIA - January 19, 2011 (WPVI) -- A doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants and poor women in a "house of horrors" clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made millions of dollars over 30 years, performing as many illegal, late-term abortions as he could, prosecutors said. State regulators ignored complaints about him and failed to inspect his clinic since 1993, but no charges were warranted against them given time limits and existing law, District Attorney Seth Williams said. Nine of Gosnell's employees also were charged.

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," Williams said.

I think that the media's investigative reporting should include Dr. Gosnell's party affiliation (if any), what radio shows he listens to and what his reading preferences are. After all, if those things were fair game for one killer, they must be fair game for this one.

Okay, this is sarcasm on my part, but only partly. Hypocrisy might be "the tribute that vice pays to virtue," but the hypocrisy of the Left isn't run of the mill stuff. The Left denies virtue of any position but its own. Not even open self-contradictions bother Leftists, for reasons I explained here.

How ironic that on the day charges against the accused abortionist serial killer were announced, Democrat U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee arose in the House chamber to accuse Republicans of wanting to kill countless Americans by repealing Obamacare. View all, but the key points come starting about 2:30 in:

"Frankly, I would just say to you, this is about saving lives. Jobs are very important; we created jobs. But even the title of their legislation, H.R. 2, 'job killing' — this is killing Americans if we take this away, if we repeal this bill [italics added].

Rep. Lee, D.-Texas, also claimed that repealing healthcare violates the rights of the people under Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments because repeal would deny the people due process of law and equal protection under the law. Hence, she said, to repeal Obamacare would itself be unconstitutional. No, really, she said that.

What does all this have to do with abortion? Abortion is the glass house that Sheila Jackson Lee, D.-Texas,  lives in even as she throws stones at Republicans. What exactly is Rep. Lee's record on abortion? Thanks to OnTheIssues.org, we know. (My excerpt here is far from the complete record, boldface is original.)

Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions.

Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life.

Voted NO on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info.

Voted NO on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad.

Voted NO on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes.

Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortions.

Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record.

So I would like to ask Rep. Lee, D.-Texas, these questions:

If Dr. Gosnell actually did what he is accused of, did he do anything morally wrong when he (allegedly) performed abortions later than 24 weeks, in contravention of state law?

Do you think there should be any legal impediment on abortion after 24 weeks, or for that matter, at any time during the entire term of woman's pregnancy?

Can you offer a coherent argument of how an aborted baby benefits from equal protection and due process while losing its life, while repealing Obamacare deprives people of the same?

Can you defend your explicit accusation that Republicans don't care whether Americans die while also defending your 100-percent voting record in support of ending the lives of millions of unborn children (30 million-plus since Roe v. Wade)?

And in reply, no doubt, the sound of crickets chirping.

But don't worry. The Dems can always fall back on accusing the Republicans of Nazism.

Update: Rep. Lee should consider the racism of legalized abortion. The Rev. Dr. Edwin King, a white Methodist clergyman instrumental in the civil rights movement in Mississippi, was a chaplain at Tougaloo College near Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s. He worked to convince white pastors in the area to issue a statement against racial segregation.

Denied membership in the Mississippi Conference of the UMC by its other white clergy, Rev. kinf joined the almost-wholly black Central Jurisdiction. In 2002, Rev. King, now a professor of Sociology and Medical Ethics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center — spoke about legalized abortion’s negative impact on black Americans.

Today in Mississippi, two thirds to seventy five percent of the abortions are done for black children in the womb. In America in 1995 we had reached the point that black abortions were about thirty eight percent of all abortions in America, almost three times the black population rate, and Hispanic abortions then had approached twelve percent which was close to the Hispanic level, and the Hispanics being predominantly Roman Catholic. In 1995 the majority of the children whose life was snuffed out in the womb were black or Hispanic. Today it is about sixty percent [of] all abortions in America. Is that freedom for somebody or is something else going on? Fannie Lou Hamer was the first person to talk to me after Roe vs. Wade came down and she said, “Rev. King, this is another racial thing, this is the answer to the civil rights movement, they are going to get rid of black babies.” I know you have a variety of opinions on that [italics added].

And, as NARAL's rating of Rep. Lee affirms, she is 100 percent in support of getting "rid of black babies."