By Dave Andrusko

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell

I’ve quote fairly liberally from the devastating Grand Jury report that culminated with abortionist Kermit Gosnell and some of his staff being charged with eight counts of murder. But over the next two weeks, I am going to run a daily excerpt from the 261-page report. There is simply no way to grasp the full horror of what took place in West Philadelphia without reading at some of what they discovered.

“None of Gosnell’s employees were licensed or properly trained. Gosnell’s staff warned him that two of his employees, Lynda Williams and Sherry West, were not only unlicensed and unqualified, but sloppy and unconcerned as well. They presented an obvious danger to the clinic’s patients, whom they routinely over-medicated and failed to monitor.

"But while Williams and West were perhaps slightly more careless than other workers, their actions were consistent with the corner-cutting practice that Gosnell had operated for decades. Every aspect of that practice reflected an utter disregard for the health and safety of his patients, a cruel lack of respect for their dignity, and an arrogant belief that he could forever get away with the slovenly and careless treatment of the women who came to his clinic. The only thing Gosnell seemed to care about was the cash he raked in from his illegal operation.

“The fact that the doctor staffed his facility with unlicensed and indifferent workers, and then let them practice medicine unsupervised, was only one factor that made his clinic such a dangerous place for his patients. Dirty facilities; unsanitary instruments; an absence of functioning monitoring and resuscitation equipment; the use of cheap, but dangerous drugs; illegal procedures; and inadequate emergency access for when things inevitably went wrong, all put patients at risk-- every day.

“When two of Gosnell’s staff members sought abortions, they knew better than to go to him. They went to other clinics… “Mrs. Monger [the woman whom Gosnell is charged with murdering] was just one of many patients victimized by Gosnell’s depravity. There were scores more. At least one other mother died following an abortion in which Gosnell punctured her uterus and then sent her home. He left an arm and a leg of a partially aborted fetus in the womb of another woman, and then told her he did not need to see her when she became sick days later, having developed a temperature of 106 degrees. He perforated bowels, cervixes, and uteruses. He left women sterile.

“He also killed live, viable, moving, breathing, crying babies. He killed them by cutting their spinal cords after their mothers had delivered them after receiving excessive amounts of medication designed to induce active labor. This report documents multiple murders of viable babies. The evidence makes a compelling case that many others were also murdered.

“Gosnell and his employees performed abortions long after the legal limit. The doctor’s unorthodox methods, especially with the late second-trimester and third-trimester pregnancies, virtually mandated the premature delivery of live babies--whose spinal cords he would then routinely slit. These practices persisted for many years without interruption by any regulatory body.

“The pain, suffering, and death that he and his employees perpetrated were not the result of accidentally botched procedures. It was Gosnell’s standard business practice, to slay viable babies. The women who died, or whose health he recklessly endangered or irreparably harmed, were simply collateral damage for the doctor’s corrupt and criminal enterprise.”

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