Pro-life leaders and media are creating a clamor over the lack of media coverage in the trial of  an abortion doctor on trial for infanticide in the United States.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, is accused of delivering seven premature babies in his abortion clinic in Philadelphia and then killing them after they were born.

He is also on trial for the death of another woman during a botched abortion.

The grand jury report that led to his indictment called Gosnell's clinic a "House of Horrors."

Testimony in the case has been gruesome. It has included witnesses describing the death of babies who were still breathing and screaming.  

Gosnell is said the have  killied the babies by snipping their spinal cords. 

"It was literally a beheading,"testified Stephen Massof, an unlicensed medical school graduate who worked at the clinic."It is seperating the brain from the body."

Massof  indicated Gosnell was responsible for the death of approximately 100 newborns as wll as other women. However, he has not been charged because the records were destroyed.  

For the most part the the Gosnell trial had been treated like a local story and ignored by the national media.

However, Christian media have been vocal about the five-week old case, now complaining over how it has been ignored.

Steve Ertelt of LifeNews wrote  that the national media is playing a game of 'now you see me, now you don't."

He said that reporters virtually ignored the case until recently, and attendance at the trial by media representatives has been erratic.   

Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, the host of its daily radio program to three million listeners, wrote on  Crosswalk.com that media row at the trial has been virtually empty.

He joined others in saying that  most major media outlets were ignoring the case.

This week even secular liberal media pundits have decried the lack of coverage.

Kirsten Powers, a pundit seen frequently on Fox News wrote in USA Today that "the deafening silence of too much of the media, once a force for justice in America, is a  'disgrace'.

"Let me state the obvious," she said."This should be front page news."

"You don't have to oppose abortion rights to find late-term abhorrent or to find the Gosnell trial eminently newsworthy", Powers said."This is not about being pro-choice or pro-life."

"It's about basic human rights."

Another perceived liberal Fox News contributor, university professor Marc Lamont Hill,  said he believes the media is ignoring the case on purpose.

"For what it's worth, I do think that those of us on the left have made a decision not to cover this trial because we worry that it will compromise abortion rites", said Hill.

"Whether you agree with abortion or not, I do think that there is a direct connection between the media's failure to cover this and our own political commitments on the left," he said.

Hill said he thought a media blackout was a bad idea and dangerous.

Eric Deggans, however, wrote in the Tampa Bay Times, "There are issues here which deserve coverage. Are there other clinics in the city or state operating similarly due to lax oversight? Are some of the abortion restrictions passed in Pennsylvania after he was arrested a reaction to the allegations?

"Is there any way to sort out the political arguments here to determine if the horrors alleged were a result of a lax attitude toward abortion or a too-strict demonization of it?  the trial proceedings and scooping up the latest morsel of salacious testimony.

He noted, "All of that requires reporting and investigation, not sitting a reporter in the trial proceedings and scooping up the latest morsel of salacious testimony."

The story was picked up by the Irish Times and Patrick Smyth wrote on April 20, "The conditions and the practices alleged in the clinic were abominable. He should have been shut down and a long time ago – on that pro- and anti-choice campaigners are completely at one."

Tim Stanley of the UK Telegraph wrote on April 13 that he had no idea who Gosnell was because of the media blackout.

"Now that I do I hope the name becomes seared into the American national consciousness", he said."It could transform the debate about abortion."

"The Gosnell case isn't just about one man's guilt", wrote Stanley."It's about the moral compass of an entire nation."