Sunday 10-30-11

No one should be surprised and this is the norm and not the exception, imo

Two abortion clinic employees plead guilty to murder

Two employees of a Philadelphia abortion clinic where live, viable babies were allegedly killed and a patient died after being given on overdose of painkillers pleaded guilty on Thursday to murder.

Guilty pleas to third-degree murder were entered by Adrienne Moton, 34, and Sherry West, 52, who both worked for Dr. Kermit Gosnell at what prosecutors have described as a decrepit and unsanitary clinic known as Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia.

Due to a court-issued gag order, attorneys declined to comment on reports that no plea agreement was reached in the case.

Sentencing was set for December 2 by Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner. The maximum penalty for third-degree murder is 40 years in prison.

Seven more defendants face charges in the case, including Gosnell, who a grand jury in January said, "killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy -- and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors."

The grand jury said that a clinic co-worker of Moton's testified that a woman gave birth to a large baby at the clinic, delivering the child into a toilet. The jurors identified the newborn as "Baby D."

The jurors said the co-worker told them that the baby was moving and looked like it was swimming.

"Moton reached into the toilet, got the baby out and cut its neck," the grand jury said in its report.

West was accused of murder in the death of a 41-year-old patient, Karnamaya Mongar.

"The evidence presented to the grand jury established that Karnamaya Mongar died of cardiac arrest because she was overdosed with Demerol," the grand jurors said.

The grand jury said West and another employee administered the drug at Gosnell's direction and that Mongar died as a result of "wanton reckless conduct."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/us-crime-abortion-pennsylvania-idUSTRE79Q7GK20111027

THE JOKING PREACHER

( Friday Church News Notes, October 21, 2011, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is adapted from Heads Up! August 19, 2011: “Preachers telling jokes to ‘warm up the crowd’ is one of the most offensive things to be found in Baptist churches. I once heard an American preacher begin his sermon by telling fifteen minutes of jokes. I told him afterward that since we had 30 people there that day, he had wasted 15 minutes for each of the 30 people in attendance. That equalled 450 minutes of our time and the Lord’s time he had wasted. Seven and a half hours he had wasted telling us silly jokes instead of using those precious minutes to preach the Word of God to a needy people living in a desperately need time.” NOTE FROM BROTHER CLOUD: There is not a hint in Scripture that it is proper to turn the pulpit into a forum for telling jokes. We cannot imagine John the Baptist or the Lord Jesus or the apostle Paul doing such a thing. The preacher’s solemn charge to “reprove, rebuke, exhort” is not a description of levity.