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Jack McMahon’s Monstrous Line

“If we are going in this room to say a baby is born alive because it moves one time without any other movement, that is ludicrous.” — Jack McMahon, defense attorney for late-term abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell, on trial for murder. Think about that statement. Even bad guys are entitled to a good defense, but […]

“If we are going in this room to say a baby is born alive because it moves one time without any other movement, that is ludicrous.” — Jack McMahon, defense attorney for late-term abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell, on trial for murder.

Think about that statement. Even bad guys are entitled to a good defense, but think about what it’s like to know that you’re the kind of man who could say these words in defense of a man accused of killing newborn babies by cutting the spines.

 

 

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