A New York City theater has abruptly cancelled a play about an abortionist imprisoned for life for killing babies. Though the theater cited safety concerns and content inappropriate for children, the writer behind the controversial show claims they are afraid of the story he is trying to tell.
Playwright Phelim McAleer pointed out to The Daily Wire on Tuesday that Theatre Row has hosted a slew of other plays labeled inappropriate for children (including Hitler&#8217;s Tasters, My Mother&#8217;s Severed Head, and the production Satan and God) — and McAleer believes Theatre Row cancelled the show because it exposes the gruesome crimes of an abortionist.
&#8220;Theatre Row claims to support the arts and a diverse array of views, but it&#8217;s clear from their letter that they will not hesitate to silence artists who don&#8217;t fit their narrative,&#8221; McAleer told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Their letter is a complete fraud and they should be ashamed of themselves. This is so-called elites trying to cover up the truth. They are afraid of facts and real art. They are sham artists.&#8221;
&#8220;<a href="https://unreportedstorysociety.createsend1.com/t/t-i-qtydtz-l-j/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unreportedstorysociety.createsend1.com/t/t-i-qtydtz-l-j/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651084238299000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3mpRldh0LqJF2MOIayLsld">Oh Gosnell: The Truth About Abortion</a>&#8221; is a production billed as &#8220;the most controversial Off Broadway play this year,&#8221; reportedly <a href="https://www.ohgosnell.com/">taken verbatim</a> from the trial transcript of Kermit Gosnell, who is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/16/justice/pennsylvania-abortion-doctor-pills/index.html">serving multiple life sentences</a> in Pennsylvania&#8217;s Huntington Correctional Institute.
Gosnell was convicted in 2013 on three counts of first-degree murder for killing babies by cutting their spinal cords with scissors at his Philadelphia abortion clinic.
McAleer and his wife, Anne McElhinney, who investigated Gosnell&#8217;s crimes for <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gosnell-Untold-Americas-Prolific-Serial/dp/1621574555">their best-selling book</a>, have talked to Gosnell over the phone many times and even visited the convicted murderer in prison &#8220;where he veered from charming old uncle to really, really creepy,&#8221; McAleer told The Daily Wire.
The show is set to launch on the same night as J.J. Abrams&#8217; and Ilana Glazer’s supposed abortion comedy, “Oh God: A Show About Abortion.&#8221; It will now be performed at The Chain Theatre instead, McAleer said.
&#8220;They laugh about it &#8211; we tell the truth about it,&#8221; the Unreported Story Society&#8217;s website says. &#8220;Gosnell was a serial killer abortion doctor who was convicted of killing babies and women patients.&#8221;
Theatre Row, an &#8220;Off-Broadway multi-theater complex in the heart of the Theater District,&#8221; did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire. The complex is operated by Building for the Arts NY, Inc.
In an <a href="https://unreportedstorysociety.com/wp-content/uploads/LTR-Unreported.pdf">April 21 letter to the Unreported Story Society</a>, Building for the Arts NY, Inc.&#8217;s legal representation claimed that McAleer&#8217;s organization withheld &#8220;material information&#8221; from the theatre company in a manner &#8220;constituting fraud.&#8221;
&#8220;Our nonprofit mission is public record,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;The Play’s content violates material terms of the executed agreement including, without limitation, the subject matter inappropriate for children and the resultant disrepute suffered by the Licensor.&#8221;
&#8220;The Theatre will not be able to exercise reason in granting many, if not all, of the approvals required,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;This should have been obvious to the Licensee. Upon information and belief, there are numerous deficiencies, breaches and violations regarding good standing, insurance, and attendant rules, but this letter is not meant to set forth a comprehensive list of reasons. We are concerned for the safety of our staff and our neighbors.&#8221;
The letter warns the Unreported Story Society that the theatre has &#8220;informed security and local law enforcement that there is no property left in the building and no reason for your return to the premises.&#8221;
&#8220;Kindly do not contact any individuals at Theatre Row as you have been made aware that they have engaged litigation counsel,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;Direct all questions or other communications to this office. Your deposit is being returned today.&#8221;
McAleer told The Daily Wire that the theater company is &#8220;afraid&#8221; and that their claims have &#8220;no basis in reality,&#8221; calling the letter &#8220;the best piece of fiction they have ever produced.&#8221;
He also said he finds it ironic that the company would consider a play about abortion as &#8220;inappropriate for children” when &#8220;plays like the one produced by Hollywood Producer J.J. Abrams are deadly to children every day in America.&#8221;
&#8220;Our play uses fact, evidence, and testimony, and humanizes babies,&#8221; he added, noting that &#8220;J.J. Abrams, Ilana Glazer and their pro-abortion cronies like to joke about destroying babies.&#8221;
&#8220;These are two different views of the world,&#8221; he emphasized, asking, &#8220;shouldn’t the public hear both?&#8221;

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NYC Theater Abruptly Cancels Play About Convicted Baby-Killer Kermit Gosnell Citing Safety Concerns

Abortion

Broadway

Gosnell

New York

New York City

Phelim McAleer

A stirring new friend-of-the-court (&#8220;amicus&#8221;) <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1323/127140/20191231111040123_Prolife%20African%20American%20Organizations%20Amicus%20Brief%20TO%20FILE.pdf">brief</a> in a high-profile U.S. Supreme Court abortion case, filed on behalf of numerous &#8220;African American pro-life organizations,&#8221; powerfully argues that there is a &#8220;a long history involving unqualified and uncredentialed abortion providers disproportionately harming black women.&#8221;
The case, which has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legal-argument-louisiana-could-have-huge-josh-hammer">previously been covered</a> by The Daily Wire, is <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/june-medical-services-llc-v-gee-3/">June Medical Services, L.L.C. v. Gee</a>, and emanates out of the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The case involves a Louisiana law that requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The law was upheld by a divided Fifth Circuit panel. As described by <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/june-medical-services-llc-v-gee-3/">SCOTUSblog</a>, Gee presents the legal question of whether the statute &#8220;conflicts with the Supreme Court’s binding precedent in <a href="https://casetext.com/case/whole-womans-health-v-hellerstedt">Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt</a>.&#8221; In the 2016 Hellerstedt case, a divided Supreme Court deemed a similar statute in Texas to be unconstitutional.
Prominent black pro-life leaders who signed on to the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1323/127140/20191231111040123_Prolife%20African%20American%20Organizations%20Amicus%20Brief%20TO%20FILE.pdf">amicus brief</a> include Ryan Bomberger, Alveda King (the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), Dean Nelson, Catherine Davis, Stacy Washington, and numerous others. The brief&#8217;s argument summary opens with a bang:
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The struggle for racial equality is not over. The black community experiences a disproportionate share of abortions, often from doctors that do not have the same credentials as those who perform other forms of surgery. Until Act 620, Louisiana’s abortion clinics were exempt from the admitting privileges requirement that applies to other outpatient and ambulatory surgical centers in the state. This disparity is significant to black women, who make up the majority of abortion clinic patients and thus bear most of the known risks of abortion in Louisiana. These known risks are life-threatening to mothers.
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The brief continues to tear at the heartstrings by recalling the tragic stories of many black women who have died from abortion complications when they visited Kermit Gosnell-esque shoddy, un-credentialed, largely unregulated abortion clinics. &#8220;These gruesome deaths are part of a long history involving unqualified and uncredentialed abortion providers disproportionately harming black women,&#8221; the brief continued. &#8220;By requiring admitting privileges, [Louisiana] also created a means for reports about individual doctors to be checked against a national database — for the benefit of all patients, of all races, equally.&#8221;
As has been frequently noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eugenicists-abortion-group-director-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-to-new-york-times-reporters">The Daily Wire</a>, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an avowed eugenicist and racist. Sanger “was an out and proud eugenicist who described the poor and immigrants as ‘human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders’ and ‘spawning … human beings who never should have been born’ in her book ‘Pivot of Civilization,&#8217;” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-removes-poster-racist-margaret-sanger-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> has reported.
Sanger also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-removes-poster-racist-margaret-sanger-paul-bois">wrote</a>: “The main objects of the Population Congress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.”
In a thunderous recent separate writing in the Fifth Circuit case of <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-60868-CV0.pdf">Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization v. Dobbs</a>, Judge James C. Ho (for whom, in the interest of full disclosure, I previously served as a law clerk) <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/18/18-60868-CV0.pdf">wrote at length</a> on the racist history of abortion advocacy in the United States (footnotes omitted):
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Eugenics—the concept of improving the human race through control of the reproductive process—has frequently been associated with explicitly racist viewpoints. “Many eugenicists believed that the distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines.” Box v. Planned Parenthood of Ind. &amp; Ky., Inc., 139 S. Ct. 1780, 1785 (2019) (Thomas, J., concurring) (providing examples). Many eugenics programs, such as sterilization, explicitly targeted minorities—as the district court rightly acknowledged. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 349 F. Supp. 3d at 541 n.22 (noting that “Mississippi . . . sterilized six out of ten black women in Sunflower County at the local hospital—against their will”).
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“From the beginning, birth control and abortion were promoted as means of effectuating eugenics.” Box, 139 S. Ct. at 1787 (Thomas, J., concurring). See also id. (“[A]bortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation.”); id. at 1788 (discussing Margaret Sanger’s view that birth control would help control the African American population); id. at 1789 (“Support for abortion can . . . be found throughout the literature on eugenics.”); DAVID T. BEITO &amp; LINDA ROYSTER BEITO, BLACK MAVERICK: T.R.M. HOWARD’S FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC POWER 215 (2009) (noting that some African American civil rights leaders “fretted about the racist implications of abortion”). Indeed, among past abortion advocates were “some eugenicists [who] believed that abortion should be legal for the very purpose of promoting eugenics.” Box, 139 S. Ct. at 1789 (Thomas, J., concurring).
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Advocates of eugenics might well celebrate, then, that abortion “has proved to be a disturbingly effective tool for implementing the discriminatory preferences that undergird eugenics.” Id. at 1790–91 (Thomas, J., concurring) (providing examples). See also id. at 1791 (noting that the current “abortion ratio . . . among black women is nearly 3.5 times the ratio for white women”); William McGurn, White Supremacy and Abortion, WALL ST. J. (Sept. 24, 2019), https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-supremacy-and-abortion-11567460392 (discussing “why so many African-Americans, especially African-American women, have been leaders in the pro-life cause”); id. (“Catherine Davis of the Restoration Project . . . notes that the estimated 20 million black abortions since Roe v. Wade in 1973 are more than the entire African-American population in 1960.”).
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U.S. Supreme Court

Black Pro-Life Leaders To SCOTUS: ‘Long History’ Of ‘Uncredentialed Abortion Providers Disproportionately Harming Black Women’

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Amid calls for an investigation into an abortion doctor whose clinic he defended last month, Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has finally publicly responded — and made sure to work in a defense of abortion in the process.
In a gruesome development reminiscent of the case of serial killer abortionist Kermit Gosnell, authorities found over 2,246 medically preserved fetal remains at the home of recently deceased abortion doctor Ulrich &#8220;George&#8221; Klopfer, whose clinic, the Whole Woman’s Health of South Bend, was forced to close down in 2016 over numerous code violations of reporting and record-keeping but then allowed to reopen this year without a license. Buttigieg notably defended the unlicensed abortion clinic in August by framing its closure as part of an &#8220;extreme assault on Roe v. Wade.&#8221;
&#8220;The mayor is deeply concerned by what he views as a new and extreme assault on Roe v. Wade in legislatures across the country,&#8221; Buttigieg&#8217;s national press secretary Chris Meagher <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-south-bend-abortion-clinic-20190806-2glq5hlgyfejvbvhbk2dknhbme-story.html">said</a> in August. &#8220;He believes that the truly radical idea in this debate and around abortion care is one of banning abortion outright. The South Bend clinic would be the only one for a radius of several counties. It is a restriction on a woman’s right if she is low-income, or doesn’t have a vehicle, and she has to visit multiple times, but the clinic is dozens of miles away.&#8221;
After being conspicuously silent on the findings of the abortionist this weekend — even after Indiana&#8217;s governor and the White House called for an investigation — Buttigieg finally addressed the controversy on Wednesday.
&#8220;Like everyone, I find the news out of Illinois, extremely disturbing,&#8221; Buttigieg told reporters (video below). &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important that that be fully investigated. I also hope that it doesn&#8217;t get caught up in politics at a time when women need access to health care. There&#8217;s no question that what happened here is disturbing, it&#8217;s unacceptable and it needs to be looked at.&#8221;
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As explained by <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/09/18/mayor-pete-chimes-in-on-fetal-remains-found-at-late-abortion-doctors-home-n2553344">Townhall</a>, Klopfer had clinics in multiple cities in Indiana; his South Bend clinic was in operation for four years under Buttigieg, who was elected in 2012, but finally closed down in 2016 after multiple reporting and record-maintenance violations. After two years of appeals, the clinic was allowed to reopen on June 27, despite still being unlicensed, a move Buttigieg strongly supported.
The mainstream media has largely ignored the unsettling case of Klopfer. In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/09/18/ulrich-klopfer-abortion-gosnell-buttigieg-fetal-remains-illinois-indiana-column/2355359001/">USA Today</a> published Wednesday, David Mastio notes that a study by the Media Research Center found that the story was largely blacked out by the networks. &#8220;At my request, the conservative Media Research Center looked into coverage of Klopfer and found little interest,&#8221; Mastio writes. &#8220;No coverage on the nightly broadcast news. Nothing on MSNBC. A story on <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2019/09/14/fetal-remains-found-home-indiana-doctor-orig-ch.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">CNN</a> and a few on Fox News. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/dr-ulrich-klopfer-fetal-remains.html">Nationalnewspapers</a> [sic] each <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/14/fetal-remains-found-illinois-home-former-abortion-doctor/2325303001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">handled</a> it with one or two <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/dr-ulrich-klopfer-fetal-remains.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">stories</a>.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/16/wh_calls_for_investigation_of_ind_abortionist_buttigieg_silent_.html">Real Clear Investigations</a>&#8216; Philip Wegmann Monday, a growing number of politicians are demanding an investigation into Klopfer and his clinics.
&#8220;We need to determine how Dr. Klopfer was able to get away with this for so long, and how we only know about it now that Dr. Klopfer is deceased,&#8221; Rep. Jim Banks told RCP over the weekend.
&#8220;I am deeply disturbed that more than 2,000 fetal remains were found at the Illinois home of a deceased former northern Indiana abortion doctor,&#8221; Republican Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said Monday, as first reported by RCP. &#8220;I support calls for a federal investigation.&#8221;
Vice President Mike Pence then weighed in on the case, tweeting Monday that what authorities found at Klopfer&#8217;s was &#8220;appalling &amp; should shock the conscience of every American.&#8221; He also noted that while he was governor of Indiana, &#8220;we took his medical license away &amp; passed a law requiring fetal remains be treated with dignity.&#8221;
&#8220;The White House echoed that sentiment, confirming to RealClearPolitics that the administration will call for a full federal investigation,&#8221; Wegmann reported Wednesday. &#8220;Deputy Communications Director Judd Deere said in a statement that the White House was &#8216;horrified&#8217; and compared the gruesome discovery &#8216;to the atrocities of Dr. Kermit Gosnell&#8217; – who was convicted in 2013 of murdering three infants that were born alive during attempted abortions.&#8221;
&#8220;Murdering thousands of innocent babies is one thing, but preserving and hoarding their bodies like trophies is a new level of sickness,&#8221; Deere continued, as reported by Wegmann. &#8220;The radical left now defends late-term abortions, including infanticide, while President Trump protects our most innocent and vulnerable, and defends the dignity of life. A full investigation is needed to determine whether crimes were committed and if anyone else was involved.&#8221;
As highlighted by Mastio, in his defense of his practices and his clinics, Klopfer &#8220;recounted how he performed an abortion on a <a href="https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/state-suspends-medical-license-of-former-south-bend-abortion-doctor/article_13cf1480-6b85-11e6-b0f7-6b2daa9decdd.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">10-year-old girl who was raped by her uncle</a>, never reporting the crime to police and, as a result, helping her parents cover up the atrocity by a family member.&#8221; He was also &#8220;previously charged with failing to report performing <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2019/09/16/fetal-remains-found-illinois-home-ex-indiana-abortion-doctor/2339342001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">abortions on two 13-year-olds</a>.&#8221;

Pete Buttigieg

White House Calls For Investigation Of South Bend Abortionist; Buttigieg Finally Responds

Indiana

Mike Pence

&#8220;Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer&#8221; will not be available on DVD until February 5 but that certainly has not prevented the film from earning the number 1 spot in New Drama at Amazon from presales alone.
&#8220;One of last year&#8217;s most controversial movies has made history with record-breaking DVD pre-sales on Amazon &#8211; topping the best-seller list and overtaking big Studio backed films,&#8221; the &#8220;Gosnell&#8217; marketing team said in a press release given exclusively to The Daily Wire. &#8220;With three weeks until the film&#8217;s release date, pre-sales have already put it as the number one drama and number 4 best selling DVD on all of Amazon.&#8221;
As of this writing, &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; stands at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Movies-TV-Drama-DVDs/zgbs/movies-tv/2959103011">number 3</a> in the Dramas and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Movies-TV-DVD/zgbs/movies-tv/2958934011">number 12</a> in bestselling DVDs overall. Screenshots were provided of the film&#8217;s placing prior to this report.
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Written by The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Andrew Klavan and directed by actor Nick Searcy (&#8220;Justified&#8221;), the movie tells the horrific story of the arrest, trial, and eventual conviction of notorious abortion butcher Kermit Gosnell, who was found guilty on three counts of murder in the first degree against three babies born alive during his procedures. The film primarily focuses on the mainstream media&#8217;s disinterest in Gosnell&#8217;s trial throughout its run.
Producer Phelim McAleer said in a statement that the film&#8217;s presale success on Amazon provides a solid indication that people are hungry to learn about the truth. &#8220;There is an enormous appetite for this kind of film that tells the truth,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People are fed up with being fed movies that attack their values and misrepresent the world. There is a real hunger for Gosnell and our record breaking sales prove this.&#8221;
&#8220;Gosnell&#8221; surpassed box-office expectations on its first weekend of release back in October 2018 by entering into the Top 10 grossing films with a revenue of $1,235,000 on just 668 screens. As the film entered week 2, however, the film was inexplicably dropped from nearly 200 theaters, including those in major cities where it was performing the strongest.
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2769225/">John Sullivan</a>, the film&#8217;s marketing director who also served as a producer, told The Daily Wire at the time the drop could not be written off as a mere coincidence or &#8220;business as usual.&#8221;
&#8220;I can tell you from my experience in 15 years of releasing movies independently, we&#8217;re in uncharted territories,&#8221; Sullivan told DW in October. &#8220;It is an impacted fall, no doubt about it, but the fact that we&#8217;ve been dropped from theaters where the movie is the number 6 or number 9 movie is just something you don&#8217;t see.&#8221;
The makers also allege that media outlets refused to carry advertising for the film while Facebook outright blocked ads from being shared. 
&#8220;NPR and the New York Times refused to carry advertising for the film and Facebook blocked over 50 advertisements on their platform,&#8221; read the statement released on Monday.
The film grossed $3.6 million during its theatrical run on a <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gosnell-movie#/">production budget of $2.4 million</a> that was spearheaded by a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign.
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Gosnell’ DVD Hits #1 New Drama On Amazon, Cracks Top 10 Overall Weeks Before Release Date

Amazon

Hollywood

The theaters may be dropping &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t mean the movie is not fulfilling its mission of teaching people the horrors of abortion. Now, a college student who once considered herself pro-choice claims to have been changed by the film.
University of Central Florida student Kathy Zhu garnered herself a big social media following in 2016 when she <a href="https://nextshark.com/kathy-zhu-donald-trump-all-lives-matter/">publicly announced </a>herself a Trump supporter after researching his positions on national security. She initially supported Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bid for president but switched sides after questioning her liberal leanings.
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This past Sunday, Zhu announced that her more liberal leanings on abortion had changed after watching the &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; movie and promoted it to her 50,000 Twitter followers.
&#8220;Yesterday, I was pro-choice. I believed that women should have a say &amp; the gov shouldn&#8217;t be interfering w/ our lives,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Today, I&#8217;m pro-life. After watching <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gosnell?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gosnell</a> &amp; doing in-depth research, I finally understand the horrors of loopholes in late term abortions. Pls go watch Gosnell.&#8221;
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Yesterday, I was pro-choice. I believed that women should have a say &amp; the gov shouldn&#8217;t be interfering w/ our lives
Today, I&#8217;m pro-life. After watching <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gosnell?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gosnell</a> &amp; doing in-depth research, I finally understand the horrors of loopholes in late term abortions. Pls go watch Gosnell <a href="https://t.co/H7WPz8Dcoj">pic.twitter.com/H7WPz8Dcoj</a>
&#8212; Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticalKathy/status/1054175778836017154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Many followers of Zhu said they were inspired by her admission and showed support.
&#8220;Glad you changed your opinion,&#8221; said one Twitter user. &#8220;The horrors of abortion don&#8217;t just end with the death of a baby. Many women suffer deep emotional wounds from choosing to kill their child. Thankfully, there is forgiveness from a holy and loving God.&#8221;
&#8220;God bless you. I hope everyone has the same life-changing reaction as you did,&#8221; said another user.
One user also announced that they too had been changed by the Gosnell story regarding abortion. &#8220;I was pro-choice but when I first heard about the Gosnell trial and grand jury report in 2011-12 I completely became pro-life,&#8221; they said.
On its second weekend of theatrical release, &#8220;Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer&#8221; continued to enjoy solid per-theater performance despite reports of it being suspiciously dropped from high-performing theaters after opening weekend.
According to <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=gosnell.htm">Box Office Mojo</a>, &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; took in $841,746 during its second week, capping out at $2,004,734 from just 480 theaters. With a <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gosnell-movie#/">production budget of $2.4 million</a>, thanks to a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign, &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; has managed to earn back about half of its budget, not factoring in marketing costs.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.lifezette.com/2018/10/exclusive-dean-cain-on-the-bias-against-his-new-movie-gosnell/">LifeZette</a> over the weekend, actor Dean Cain, who also stars in the film, said the apparent blackballing of the film was a &#8220;sign of the times.&#8221;

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Glad you changed your opinion. The horrors of abortion don&#8217;t just end with the death of a baby. Many women suffer deep emotional wounds from choosing to kill their child. Thankfully, there is forgiveness from a holy and loving God.
&#8212; Lucinda (@LucindaMason) <a href="https://twitter.com/LucindaMason/status/1054178812991287298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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A well done movie. Had me at the edge of my seat. So much evidence. God bless the women who worked there that testified and the woman who decided to keep her child. It was a combination of teamwork and miracles. The blogger was one of my fave people in the movie.
&#8212; Ana Perez (@bellyruzmom) <a href="https://twitter.com/bellyruzmom/status/1054308722523205632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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God bless you. I hope everyone has the same life-changing reaction as you did.
&#8212; Jessica (@jlc7212007) <a href="https://twitter.com/jlc7212007/status/1054339351939870720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Woman Declares Herself Pro-Life After Watching The ‘Gosnell’ Movie

The movie about abortionist Kermit Gosnell cracked the box office top ten in its first weekend. Despite showing on only 668 screens, the near-total lack of media attention, the shoestring budget and the minimal marketing, &#8220;Gosnell: The Trial Of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer&#8221; managed to pull in over a million dollars in three days. That&#8217;s not much compared to blockbusters showing on 4,000 screens with hundreds of millions in marketing behind them, but it&#8217;s very good compared to other small films with barely existent advertising budgets.
Yet, mysteriously, the movie was <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/gosnell-filmmakers-theaters-dropping-movie-preventing-people-from-buying-tickets-228090/">dropped</a> from 200 theaters heading into its second week. It was dropped from theaters with 15 or 30 screens, even though it was a top ten earner in those specific multiplexes. The film&#8217;s producer says he&#8217;s never heard of a movie getting the boot in its second week after such a strong showing in its first. On top of that, moviegoers across the country have reported that even some of the theaters still showing the film are preventing people from actually seeing it. Showings have been canceled with no explanation. Other showings have been called &#8220;sold out&#8221; despite open seats. There would appear to be an active effort to blackball &#8220;Gosnell.&#8221;
The censorship should not surprise us. The movie has met roadblock after roadblock, every step of the way. Most news outlets refused to even review the film. As of this writing, the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes has only been able to find ten write-ups of &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; across the entire media landscape. Robert Redford&#8217;s movie about an old guy robbing banks, which made not much more than &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; in its opening weekend, has been <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_old_man_and_the_gun/">reviewed</a> well over 100 times.
And this is all in keeping with how the media and the Left treated the actual events that the film is based on. That is to say, they didn&#8217;t treat the events in any way at all. The serial murder of hundreds of infants at a &#8220;medical clinic&#8221; in a major American city was steadfastly ignored by the Left and the media. They didn&#8217;t put their own spin on it. They didn&#8217;t create a narrative to explain it away. They didn&#8217;t engage in any arguments about it. They simply ignored it. There is something about Gosnell the person and &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; the movie that absolutely terrifies the Left. The story is so hazardous to their agenda, it so contradicts their narrative, that all they can do is shove the whole thing in a closet somewhere and pretend it never happened.
Why? What are they afraid of? Well, I think deep down they know that Gosnell&#8217;s defense attorneys were right. They defended their client on the basis that he&#8217;s no different from any other abortionist. Sure, his methods were a bit unorthodox. Sure, his standards of hygiene were a bit lax. Sure, he kept the corpses in buckets and jars rather than throwing them in a dumpster out back like any self-respecting abortion would. But so what? Abortionists kill infants. That&#8217;s their job. Every abortionist does it. Gosnell never denied doing it. He wasn&#8217;t on trial for killing babies; he was on trial for killing babies in the wrong location. Rather than murdering them seconds before emerging from the womb, he murdered them seconds after.
Now, Gosnell didn&#8217;t admit to killing the babies seconds after they&#8217;d been born. He claimed he killed them seconds earlier. But what does any of this matter? The baby is dead either way. It seems that if you really stop to think about the Gosnell case, if you give it even a moment&#8217;s thought, you&#8217;ll be forced to ask yourself a serious question: Am I okay with what Gosnell did? And if you answer &#8220;no,&#8221; then comes the follow up: I&#8217;m not okay with what Gosnell did, so why am I okay with what every other abortionist does every day in this country? If the murder of babies upsets me, why should I feel better about it as long as the murder happens before the baby makes it into the open air?
A moment&#8217;s thought about the Gosnell case is all it takes to send a rational person down this rabbit hole. So, the Left is determined that you do not give it a moment&#8217;s thought. And each leftist individually is determined not to give it a moment&#8217;s thought themselves. The pro-abortion position requires an enormous amount of cognitive dissonance. Every day becomes a minefield which must be deftly navigated. One wrong move and your whole ludicrous political and moral philosophy will be blown to smithereens.
C.S. Lewis once remarked that a young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist can never be too careful in his reading. The same can be said for a young man who wishes to remain soundly pro-abortion. His position is tenuous. He has built his worldview on a tower of cards. One strong gust of truth and reason will knock it all down, and he knows it. So he plugs his ears and hides in a corner and repeats talking points to himself like an incantation, hoping it will make reality go away. Pro-aborts are ignorant, but willfully ignorant. Their ignorance is the greatest indictment against them because it stems from their incomprehensible cowardice.
Perhaps that should be the next movie someone makes and the media pretends doesn&#8217;t exist. &#8220;Ignorant Cowards: The Story of the American Left.&#8221; It could be a sequel, of sorts. Or perhaps a prequel.
Either way, it would be a hit.

WALSH: Why The Left Is Terrified Of Gosnell

On its second weekend of theatrical release, &#8220;Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer&#8221; continued to enjoy solid per-theater performance despite reports of it being suspiciously dropped from high-performing theaters after opening weekend.
According to <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=gosnell.htm">Box Office Mojo</a>, &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; took in $841,746 during its second week, capping out at $2,004,734 from just 480 theaters. With a <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gosnell-movie#/">production budget of $2.4 million</a> thanks to a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign, &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; has managed to earn back about half of its budget, not factoring in marketing costs.
Though &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; propelled itself into the Top 10 grossing films in its first weekend with a revenue of $1,235,000 on just 668 screens, the filmmakers alleged that movie theaters began to inexplicably drop the film, 15 of which were high-performing multiplexes.
According to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2769225/">John Sullivan</a>, the film&#8217;s marketing director who also served as a producer, the sudden drop had an air of bias that could not be ignored; the numbers did not match up. 
&#8220;I can tell you from my experience in 15 years of releasing movies independently, we&#8217;re in uncharted territories,&#8221; Sullivan told DW in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37380/exclusive-gosnell-being-dropped-movie-theaters-paul-bois">interview last week</a>. &#8220;It is an impacted fall, no doubt about it, but the fact that we&#8217;ve been dropped from theaters where the movie is the number 6 or number 9 movie is just something you don&#8217;t see.&#8221;
&#8220;We have theaters that are dropping that are top theaters, that are performing very well,&#8221; Sullivan continued. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been the number 6 in a 15-plex and it gets dropped this week. We&#8217;ve been number 9 in a 30-plex and we&#8217;re getting dropped this week. There are about 15 theaters like that where typically you would not get dropped.&#8221;
Going into its second weekend, 15 of the theaters that dropped &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; were high-performing, and all of which were major chains. A few examples:
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<li>AMC Kips Bay #6 out of 15 screens</li>
<li>AMC Burbank #9 out of 30 screens</li>
<li>Temecula Stadium #9 out of 15 screens</li>
<li>AMC Alderwood #9 out of 16 screens</li>
<li>AMC Methuen 20 #9 out of 20 screens</li>
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Speaking with <a href="https://www.lifezette.com/2018/10/exclusive-dean-cain-on-the-bias-against-his-new-movie-gosnell/">LifeZette</a> over the weekend, actor Dean Cain, who also stars in the film, said the apparent blackballing of the film was the &#8220;sign of the times.&#8221;
&#8220;I have never experienced anything like this before, but perhaps it&#8217;s a sign of the times,&#8221; Cain said. &#8220;So many folks have become so polarized these days here in the United States that they instantly demonize anyone with whom they have any disagreement. It happens on both sides, and I find it ridiculous.&#8221;
&#8220;I contend that there are 10 percent on the far Right, and 10 percent on the far Left, and they are responsible for 90 percent of the noise,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The remaining 80 percent of us live somewhere in the middle, and we should be promoting dialogue and understanding, not division and identity politics.&#8221;
Should the trend continue into week three and four, &#8221; Gosnell&#8221; could cross the $3 million mark before its theatrical run concludes.

‘Gosnell’ Film Earns Solid Week 2 Box Office Despite Theaters Dropping It

Censorship

News is whatever the press wants it to be. When the national media really hate a story, they try to bury it, and if it has the audacity to resurface, they try to bury it all over again. In 2013, Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of three babies whose necks he snipped after they were born alive. He was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, a refugee from Nepal who was overanesthetized, and faced hundreds of lesser counts. He was sentenced to life without parole.
To read the police report on this man is to understand &#8212; and be horrified by &#8212; pure evil. Yet over the 56-day trial, the TV network newscasts ignored it, despite a roiling controversy over their flagrant omissions of this monster&#8217;s terrible and unsanitary clinic. Only when the convictions were announced did the three networks really acknowledge the story, and only with a yawn. CBS offered 33 bland words.
The networks simply do not want to tell the truth about abortion.
Last year, Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney wrote a book called &#8220;Gosnell: The Untold Story of America&#8217;s Most Prolific Serial Killer,&#8221; and that was also ignored by the national &#8220;news&#8221; organs. Now they have completed a dramatic movie with a similar name, relying heavily on actual trial transcripts, and the same shameful routine is on display. The pro-abortion media want Kermit Gosnell to just &#8230; go away.
The movie debuted in 673 theaters on Oct. 12 and grossed $1.2 million in its first weekend, according to Box Office Mojo. But the Washington Post offered no review for its debut, even though it was showing in 28 Virginia theaters and 12 in Maryland. The paper carried only a tiny brief in its &#8220;Also Opening&#8221; section. But it did find space for a 485-word review of a documentary airing in one Washington, D.C., theatre on the late street photographer Garry Winogrand, whoever he was.
The New York Times offered reviews of 15 new movies that day, not counting a &#8220;Rewind&#8221; review of a remastered 1973 Brian De Palma flick showing at one theater in Manhattan. Did &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; not show in enough movie theatres? The Times reviewed &#8220;The Oath&#8221; (debuting in 10 theaters nationwide), &#8220;Beautiful Boy&#8221; (four theaters) and &#8220;Over the Limit&#8221; (one solitary screen). Film critic A.O. Scott raved over a four-hour &#8220;Watergate&#8221; documentary showing at one art house in Greenwich Village and one in Los Angeles (and coming soon to the History Channel).
There was only one &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; review in a major newspaper, in the Los Angeles Times. Michael Rechtshaffen began: &#8220;You can say one thing for &#8216;Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer&#8217; &#8212; it will never be mistaken for having a liberal bias. &#8230; the film adopts a sanctimonious tone that&#8217;s anything but subtle.&#8221;
But when the left makes a &#8220;sanctimonious&#8221; film, that&#8217;s good. A month ago, Michael Abele of the same newspaper glowed over &#8220;Fahrenheit 11/9,&#8221; Michael Moore&#8217;s latest, saying, &#8220;Moore&#8217;s movie may not have the ferocious artistry of (Spike) Lee&#8217;s &#8212; or really, any artistry &#8212; but it&#8217;s a powerfully blunt instrument nonetheless, designed to awaken more than inflict bruises.&#8221;
Four years ago, when the so-called abortion comedy &#8220;Obvious Child&#8221; came out, the critics were thrilled. A.O. Scott slammed conservatives in The New York Times, saying, &#8220;People with nothing better to do than dream up anti-Lena Dunham think pieces will have a field day with this movie, and also miss the point.&#8221; Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday called it a &#8220;cultural watershed&#8221; and obscenely deemed it &#8220;the most pro-life movie of the year.&#8221;
In short, the cultural elites who decry how conservatives live in a &#8220;post-truth era&#8221; have sought to bury the truth about the abortion industry. Those factories of death are an important part of the liberal base, and for them, protecting abortion on demand is defending the essence of their cultural movement.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

BOZELL & GRAHAM: Burying Gosnell All Over Again

&#8220;Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer&#8221; surpassed box office expectations upon its release last week by entering into the Top 10 grossing films with a revenue of $1,235,000 on just 668 screens.
Despite the solid performance for an independent film of this sort, nearly 200 theaters have inexplicably dropped the film, including those in major cities where it was performing the strongest. Coming into its second week, &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; has dropped from 668 theaters to 480 theaters &#8212; a full 188 theater drop, 15 of which were top-performing multiplexes. 
According to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2769225/">John Sullivan</a>, the film&#8217;s marketing director who also served as a producer, the drop cannot be written off as a mere coincidence or &#8220;business as usual.&#8221;
&#8220;I can tell you from my experience in 15 years of releasing movies independently, we&#8217;re in uncharted territories,&#8221; Sullivan told DW. &#8220;It is an impacted fall, no doubt about it, but the fact that we&#8217;ve been dropped from theaters where the movie is the number 6 or number 9 movie is just something you don&#8217;t see.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard not to believe it isn&#8217;t about the content of the movie,&#8221; he added. While some of the smaller theaters may have dropped &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; to make way for &#8220;Halloween&#8221; this weekend (a major release projected at number 1), the same could not be said for multiplexes housing 20 or more theaters where the film performed in the top 10.
&#8220;We have theaters that are dropping that are top theaters, that are performing very well,&#8221; said Sullivan. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been the number 6 in a 15-plex and it gets dropped this week. We&#8217;ve been number 9 in a 30-plex and we&#8217;re getting dropped this week. There are about 15 theaters like that where typically you would not get dropped.&#8221;
&#8220;I do recognize it&#8217;s a crowded marketplace &#8212; &#8216;Halloween&#8217; is going to be a huge opening,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But it&#8217;s very odd to me that you&#8217;re within the top 10 and you&#8217;re getting dropped out of a movie house.&#8221;
15 of the theaters that dropped &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; were high-performing theaters, all of which were major chains. A few examples:
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<li>AMC Kips Bay #6 out of 15 screens</li>
<li>AMC Burbank #9 out of 30 screens</li>
<li>Temecula Stadium #9 out of 15 screens</li>
<li>AMC Alderwood #9 out of 16 screens</li>
<li>AMC Methuen 20 #9 out of 20 screens</li>
</ul>
Conversely, the filmmakers have received varying reports of theaters actively preventing customers from buying a ticket by not advertising the film or declaring it &#8220;sold out&#8221; before capacity is reached. While some of those situations may be the result of human error, Sullivan says the apparent blackballing is too consistent to go ignored.
&#8220;This has come at an unprecedented level for us,&#8221; Sullivan said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve released a number of independent films, including the number 2 political documentary of all time. We faced problems there, but I&#8217;m getting reports of stuff too consistently for it not to be taken as something more than just a 16 or 17-year-old not doing their job at the local theater level.&#8221;
He continued: &#8220;One report out of Nashville had people being told the movie sold out simply because they didn&#8217;t have the staff to cover the theater, and they chose our theater to do that to. Why? Too many things have stacked up and it just doesn&#8217;t smell right.&#8221;
Sullivan directed the top-grossing &#8220;2016: Obama&#8217;s America,&#8221; and while that film certainly faced some resistance, the box office numbers were too strong for theater chains to simply toss it aside. 
In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gosnellmovie/videos/352979291912683/">public statement</a> on Facebook, the film&#8217;s producer, Phelim McAleer, said he had received &#8220;worrying reports from across the country&#8221; regarding customers&#8217; inability to buy tickets.
&#8220;People are saying that they are going to the box office and being told that the film isn&#8217;t being shown when it is,&#8221; McAleer said. &#8220;We are being told that people are also not able to buy tickets online. Some theaters are trying to cut this down, trying to exclude people from going to see it.&#8221;
Several Facebook users commented that they have indeed been prevented from seeing the film.
&#8220;My wife and I bought tickets online beforehand at an AMC theater, only to have them canceled and refunded,&#8221; said one user. &#8220;My wife called and asked why, but the person she talked [to] only would say that the theater decided not to show it. So, we drove an extra 20 minutes to see it at a Cinemark theater where it was showing.&#8221;
Another user said, &#8220;I bought tickets from the kiosk in the theatre lobby. When the photos were displayed in the kiosk screen, every movie had the photo of the movie except Gosnell.&#8221;
&#8220;My cineplex did not have any movie posters up for it, no signs over the hallway to the correct theater, I had to ask them where to go,&#8221; said another.
Time will tell if &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; will hold up in its second week despite the reduction of showings.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Gosnell’ Being Dropped From Movie Theaters Despite Solid Performance

It&#8217;s here.
&#8220;Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer&#8221; debuts in theaters nationwide on Oct. 12. I do believe this groundbreaking film by indie producers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney is the most important movie in America right now &#8212; a true-life saga of good vs. evil, deadly medical malpractice, systemic government malfeasance and cultural apathy toward the most vulnerable members of our society.
I first reported on this real-life horror story nearly eight years ago, but you&#8217;ve probably not heard or read a word about &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; in the mainstream press, TV news or online. The conspiracy of silence is the result of both malign neglect and active suppression of inconvenient truths:
&#8212;One CNN commentator flippantly explained that the network&#8217;s lack of interest was a &#8220;business decision,&#8221; not bias.
&#8212;Pro-abortion censors at crowdsourcing giant Kickstarter banned McAleer and McElhinney from raising money for the project &#8212; leading small donors across the country to help conduct the largest-ever crowdfunded movie on Indiegogo. (Full disclosure: I put my money where my principles are and donated three times, in addition to using my social media platforms to lend a hand.)
&#8212;Taxpayer-supported National Public Radio refused to run sponsored ads describing Gosnell as an &#8220;abortionist&#8221; because its legal department determined the accurate description violated the left-leaning network&#8217;s &#8220;value neutral&#8221; platform. LOL.
&#8212;And this past week, Facebook banned advertising for the movie &#8212; a continuation of its systemic crackdown on conservative speech.
What are they trying to hide?
Philadelphia abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell is behind bars, serving three consecutive life sentences for a murderous crime spree that places him in the same infamous pantheon of homicidal maniacs as Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. But because his victims were hundreds of poor minority women and their children, Hollywood, women&#8217;s groups and the media &#8212; who usually never hesitate to sensationalize criminal masterminds &#8212; are AWOL.
Why? Because radical leftists zealously believe that abortion must be defended at all costs, even if it means whitewashing its bloody, half-century legacy of mass genocide in our nation&#8217;s inner cities.
Operating under the cover of providing &#8220;reproductive health services,&#8221; death doc Gosnell brutally executed hundreds of healthy, living, breathing, squirming, viable babies by stabbing them in their necks and severing spinal cords with scissors and knives. This twisted murderer kept newborn baby feet in specimen jars, which he crammed into the grisly refrigerators of his filthy &#8220;clinic&#8221; for &#8220;research.&#8221;
In 2013, Gosnell was convicted of murdering three babies born alive in his death factory and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 41-year-old Bhutanese refugee Karnamaya Mongar, who died of a inhumanely administered drug overdose at Gosnell&#8217;s &#8220;Women&#8217;s Medical Society.&#8221;
For 15 years, public officials at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Department of State, and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health officials did nothing to stop Gosnell. Nearby hospital administrators and &#8220;women&#8217;s health&#8221; advocates at the National Abortion Federation knew he was a butcher, but also sat on their hands.
In their 2017 Regnery book on Gosnell, which they adapted into the new movie, McAleer and McElhinney exposed the monster and his enablers with painstaking dedication to original documentation and investigative journalism. The PG-13 film stays true to the trial record without having to resort to gratuitous graphic imagery.
Actors Dean Cain, Sarah Jane Morris, Nick Searcy, Earl Billings, Alfonzo Rachel, and the entire cast bring the courtroom drama &#8212; and more importantly, the human drama &#8212; to life. Parents with teenage children can and should bring them. We cannot afford to shield them from the truth and leave them vulnerable to the pervasive propaganda of the culture of death.
Whatever your position on abortion, this brave, independent film is an eye-opener that will change hearts and minds. Perhaps what the speech-suppressers who don&#8217;t want you to know about &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; fear most is this chilling conclusion: Deadly indifference to protecting life isn&#8217;t tangential to the abortion industry&#8217;s barbaric practices &#8212; but at its very core.
Michelle Malkin is host of &#8220;Michelle Malkin Investigates&#8221; on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

MALKIN: The Most Important Movie You’ve Never Heard Of

&#8220;Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer&#8221; is based on the frightening true story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, known as &#8220;America&#8217;s most prolific serial killer&#8221; who ran a filthy health care clinic in Philadelphia, where he brutally murdered babies born alive. Through the crowdfunding efforts of producers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, the story comes to life in this film.
Detectives James &#8220;Woody&#8221; Wood (Dean Cain) and his partner Stark (AlonZo &#8220;Zo&#8221; Rachel) are investigating illegal prescription drug sales when they hear a name, Dr. Kermit Gosnell (Earl Billings). 
Convincing district attorney Dan Molinari (Michael Beach) and assistant district attorney Alexis &#8220;Lexy&#8221; McGuire (Sarah Jane Morris) to back warrants for Gosnell&#8217;s abortion clinic, what they find shocks them. They find his clinic and later home in abhorrent condition, infested with cats and fleas. 
The investigators find a chilling trail of deaths in the clinic, not just of babies, but of adults. They learn that the health department had not investigated his establishment in over a decade, even after receiving complaints. They are also shocked to find only a single reporter in the courtroom when the case goes to trial. 
Throughout the film, the charismatic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36005/leaked-npr-emails-uncover-coordinated-effort-cover-amanda-prestigiacomo">Dr. Gosnell</a> maintains his chilling composure through the events of the movie.
&#8220;Gosnell&#8221; takes on one of the most horrifying stories in modern day America. McElhinney and McAleer do a good job of bringing this tragedy to its fruition. The movie does not retreat into political correct stance that most of Hollywood takes when developing a film that discusses this kind of topic or, as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11215/hollywood-continues-coverup-gosnell-case-hank-berrien">media</a> did with this story, ignore it all together.
With Nick Searcy as director and The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Andrew Klavan as lead screenplay writer, it is packed with talent. The cast including Dean Cain, Sarah Jane Morris, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33873/exclusive-gosnell-actress-discusses-moment-she-christian-toto">Tessya Whatley</a>, AlonZo Rachel, all whom deliver in their roles, but especially Earl Billings. 
Billings played Gosnell with a chilling focus, bringing to life the nonchalant attitude he had toward his crimes, his utter disregard for human life, and the cold, dirty way he ran his life and his clinic. 
The story of Kermit Gosnell&#8217;s murder spree remained hidden from the public for many years and this film accurately brings the tragedy to life. It is bold, forceful, and does not try to hide the horrors that were committed against the children and adults that passed through the Gosnell clinic. 
You can watch the trailer below:
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‘Gosnell’ Review: A Chilling True Story

Andrew Klavan

Murder

Philadelphia

Leaked emails from National Public Radio (NPR) reveal the taxpayer-funded group running interference for the abortion industry by banning the term &#8220;abortionist&#8221; and &#8220;abortion doctor&#8221; to describe the murderous Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist currently serving a life sentence for three counts of first-degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter.
When an executive producer for the new film &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34591/watch-movie-trailer-about-serial-murder-amanda-prestigiacomo">Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer</a>&#8221; reached out to NPR to purchase a sponsorship for the interview show &#8220;Fresh Air,&#8221; he was told he could not use the term &#8220;abortionist&#8221; to describe Gosnell in the ad, though he could use the term &#8220;doctor,&#8221; emails <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-npr-emails-dont-call-kermit-gosnell-an-abortion-doctor">obtained</a> by The Daily Beast indicate:
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Sullivan, who was prepared to spend as much as six figures, crafted his ad copy to answer the question you&#8217;re probably asking: Who is Gosnell? The proposed ad was as follows, &#8220;Support for this NPR program comes from the film Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer. The film is the true story of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. A story the mainstream media tried to cover up because it reveals the truth about abortion.&#8221;
No dice. According to e-mails provided to The Daily Beast, NPR&#8217;s representative ran it up the legal flagpole and came back with a disappointing answer. In addition to other minor tweaks to the wording, their response stated, &#8220;The word &#8216;abortionist&#8217; will also need to be changed to the neutral word &#8216;doctor.'&#8221;
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But using the ambiguous term &#8220;doctor&#8221; widely misdirects from the function of the film, as NPR surely understands. So Sullivan pushed back, asking if he could use the much more accurate term &#8220;abortion doctor.&#8221;
NPR, amazingly, said no.
The modified ad, as provided by NPR Senior Director of Media Relations Isabel Lara, would say: &#8220;Hat Tip Distribution, with the film &#8216;Gosnell: The Trial of America&#8217;s Biggest Serial Killer,&#8217; based on the true story of Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell. Out Friday.&#8221;
Not even a mention of abortion.
&#8220;Our movie isn&#8217;t about a podiatrist or a cardiologist or a proctologist,&#8221; argued &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; producer Phelim McAleer. &#8220;It&#8217;s specifically about a doctor who performs abortions.&#8221;
&#8220;Sponsor credits that run on NPR are required to be value neutral to comply with FCC requirements and to avoid suggesting bias in NPR&#8217;s journalism,&#8221; Lara reasoned to The Daily Beast.
This is nonsense. NPR has used the term &#8220;abortion doctor&#8221; repeatedly in the past when reporting on the murder of an &#8220;abortion doctor.&#8221; And when the Gosnell story first hit the uninterested media, a buried headline with the term &#8220;abortion doctor&#8221; describing Gosnell sneaked by the media group.
So why can&#8217;t Gosnell, an abortionist, be described as an abortionist? The answer is obvious: to protect the abortion industry. Abortion can in no way be associated with &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; the movie &#8212; a brutally honest uncovering of abortionist Gosnell&#8217;s &#8220;House of Horrors.&#8221; This would expose to the world what abortion and late-term abortion actually is.
As noted by The Daily Beast, the efforts to silence or obfuscate the premise of &#8220;Gosnell&#8221; the film has been heavy- handed. &#8220;Before trying to market the movie, the filmmakers encountered similar obstacles preventing them from crowdfunding via Kickstarter. Then, they had a hard time finding a distributor. And long before a film existed, the actual crime itself, the event on which the film is based, was largely under-covered,&#8221; the outlet reports.
When the Gosnell story broke in 2013, the media were essentially nowhere to be found. Even liberal pundit Kirsten Powers admitted this much in a USA Today column: &#8220;Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven&#8217;t heard about these sickening accusations? It&#8217;s not your fault,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page.&#8221;
&#8220;Gosnell&#8221; producer Ann McElhinney noted that NPR receives taxpayer funds and thus has &#8220;a duty to push aside their own prejudices and opinions and apply fair and consistent standards and allow paid advertising even if the ads are promoting something they would rather remain hidden from their listeners.&#8221;
&#8220;Perhaps Congress should look into the matter. If they&#8217;re so well-funded that they&#8217;re turning away advertisers like us, maybe they don&#8217;t need government subsidies anymore,&#8221; said McAleer.
To find out more about the film, <a href="http://www.gosnellmovie.com/">click here</a>.

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