Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

Partial birth abortion, a medical procedure in which a doctor partially withdraws a late term fetus from a woman and kills it, is the left’s AK15, a semi-automatic rifle banned in Connecticut following a murderous assault on a school in Sandy Hook Connecticut . U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have taken a leading role in an attempt to push through a reluctant Senate a bill that would require background checks for weapons purchases. A Grand Jury that returned an indictment against late term abortion provider Kermit Gosnell also issued in January 2011 a report on Mr. Gosnell’s abortion clinic that begins, “the medical practice by which [Kermit Gosnell] carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels and, on at least two occasions, caused their death.”