You have something in common with Kermit Gosnell

Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during abortion procedures…

I can barely read, let alone quote, more of the gruesome story surrounding Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell.

USA Today writer, Kristen Powers, goes onto point out what she thinks is an oddly disproportionate response to this story by the nation’s leading media:

The Washington Post has not published original reporting on this during the trial and The New York Times saw fit to run one original story on A-17 on the trial’s first day. They’ve been silent ever since, despite headline-worthy testimony.

Powers’ thesis? “We’ve forgotten what belongs on Page One.”

What do you think? Do you want coverage of this kind of abuse broadcast on the front page of every paper (minus graphic images)? And regardless of your preferences, for awareness sake, should it be there?

Should it be there to stand against a man we all want to quickly disassociate from? To indict a monster in the court of public opinion? Or even more so, should it be there to remind us of what we all–including him–have in common?

To remember our shared human condition and to keep a gruesome but memorable reminder to watch our hearts because we all have the ability to numb ourselves to things we shouldn’t, though Dear God I hope not to this same extent.