Kermit Gosnell: This Prosecution for a Dozen Murders is Nothing More Than a "Lynching"

Truly gruesome stuff.

This story really is hard to read. That may be part of the reason for the very small amount of coverage; but the bigger reason is that this story does illustrate, in ways many would like to not be illustrated, the grim details of abortion.

A jury weighing murder charges against a Philadelphia abortion provider heard grim testimony about unorthodox procedures used on inner-city clinic patients.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, faces the death penalty if convicted of killing seven late-term babies after they were born alive. He is also charged with third-degree murder in the overdose death of a 41-year-old refugee who sought an abortion in 2009.

Medical assistant Adrienne Moton admitted Tuesday that she had cut the necks of at least 10 babies after they were delivered, as Gosnell had instructed her. Gosnell and another employee regularly "snipped" the spines "to ensure fetal demise," she said.

Moton sobbed as she recalled taking a cellphone photograph of one baby because he was bigger than any she had seen aborted before. She measured the fetus at nearly 30 weeks, and thought he could have survived, given his size and pinkish color. Gosnell later joked that the baby was so big he could have walked to the bus stop, she said.

He's talking about killing babies the way hunters might talk about their biggest deer.

Another Gruesome Tale: He gave a fifteen year old a forcible abortion against her will.

The teen's grandmother had brought her to the clinic. But she didn't want the abortion herself. That didn't faze Gosnell, who strapped her to the operating table. She resisted for 30 minutes. But then he drugged her with a pre-set amount of knock-out juice, not bothering to lower the dosage for this 87-pound girl. He put her out for 12 hours-- which sounds to me a like just a couple of hours short of a lethal OD.

posted by Ace at 01:50 PM

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