Christine Flowers - Gosnell was allowed to kill and maim
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The mainstream instinct in stories like Christine Flowers’ is to treat Kermit Gosnell as a grim outlier, a freak case in a blue-city corner. That framing lets the comfortable people move on, as if the real scandal is that the public hadn’t heard the name. What gets missed is that Gosnell wasn’t “allowed” by accident.
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Say “Kermit Gosnell” to someone outside of Philadelphia, and they will look at you with the puzzled expression of someone whose only familiarity with that name comes from a cute little frog singing about rainbows.
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The mainstream instinct in stories like Christine Flowers’ is to treat Kermit Gosnell as a grim outlier, a freak case in a blue-city corner. That framing lets the comfortable people move on, as if the real scandal is that the public hadn’t heard the name.
What gets missed is that Gosnell wasn’t “allowed” by accident. He operated in plain sight because regulators, politicians, and local media looked away. When ideological protection matters more than patients, oversight becomes theater. The result is predictable: the vulnerable pay, and accountability arrives only after bodies stack up.
Conservatives focus on rule of law and public trust because they protect everyone, including women who were promised “safe” care. If a state cannot enforce basic health and criminal standards, it forfeits legitimacy.
The principle at stake is simple: equal justice cannot depend on whose cause is being served.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.