PA doctor convicted of murder, gets life in prison

[redrumloa]

A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of the babies who were delivered alive and killed with scissors.

In a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's abortion debate, former clinic employees testified that Gosnell routinely performed illegal abortions past Pennsylvania's 24-week limit, that he delivered babies who were still moving, whimpering or breathing, and that he and his assistants dispatched the newborns by "snipping" their spines, as he referred to it.

Wouldn't that make him a hero to the abortion lovers?

Gosnell has said he considered himself a pioneering inner-city doctor who helped desperate women get late-term abortions.

I guess he was a decade too early. In 10 years "post-birth abortions" will probably be common.

The gruesome details of Gosnell's operation came out more than two years ago during a grand jury investigation of prescription drug trafficking. Authorities raiding Gosnell's clinic for drugs instead found bags and bottles of fetuses, including jars of severed feet, along with bloodstained furniture, dirty medical instruments and cats roaming the premises.

Prosecution experts said one of the babies was nearly 30 weeks along when the abortion took place, and was so big that Gosnell allegedly joked the baby could "walk to the bus." A second baby was said to be alive for about 20 minutes before a clinic worker snipped the neck. A third was born in a toilet and was moving before another clinic employee severed the spinal cord, according to testimony.

A fourth baby let out a whimper before Gosnell cut the neck, prosecutors alleged. Gosnell was acquitted in that baby's death, the only one of the four in which no one testified to seeing the baby killed.

This shit happens all the time, it is a wonder this murderer actually got convicted. And you people wonder why abortion clinics get bombed.

 

[Glaucus]

Kermit the Rogue

The bad news for pro-lifers—and the good news for everybody else—is that Gosnell really is an outlier. Other abortion clinics don’t do what he did to patients or live-born babies. Few have even come close. Late-term abortions and patient deaths are relatively rare. Part of the exonerating evidence comes from government data. The rest comes, inadvertently, from pro-lifers themselves.

 

[faethor]

@Redrumloa,

I thought this fit here. http://www.gallup.com/poll/162548/americans-misjudge-abortion-views.aspx

"For several years now, neither the pro-choice nor the pro-life label has been dominant among Americans. Nevertheless, 51% of Americans perceive that most Americans are pro-choice -- slightly more than the 45% personally taking the pro-choice stance. Barely a third of Americans, 35%, think most Americans are pro-life, considerably less than the 48% who are pro-life"

 

[cecilia]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/162548/americans-misjudge-abortion-views.aspx

your link was messed up

 

[faethor]

Thanks!