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Abortionist Charged With
Eight Counts of Murder Part One of Four By Dave Andrusko Good evening and thanks for joining the discussion. Part Two asks you to respond to the question, " I am pro-life because…" Part Three celebrates Oregon RTL's rally and march. Part Four takes an amused look at NARAL's latest edition of "Who Decides?" Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), we remind you that the House wouldn't be in the position to repeal ObamaCare had it not been for you. There is also news about an important press conference tomorrow. Dr. David Prentice shares the latest good news on the issue of adult stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today todaveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. "'My comprehension of the English language can't adequately describe the barbaric nature of Dr. Gosnell,' [District Attorney Seth] Williams said at a [Wednesday] news conference." A story from today's Reuters news service. It would be difficult to imagine two sentences that better captures the sheer horror of what abortionists can do than these from Mary Claire Dale of the Associated Press: "PHILADELPHIA ---- An abortion doctor who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made millions of dollars over 30 years, performing as many illegal, late-term abortions as he could, prosecutors said." The charges against Gosnell and nine "associates" followed a year-long investigation by a grand jury. But as horrific as what Gosnell is charged with committing--and the details are so shocking it's difficult to even report them--three sentences in the Associated Press (AP) story make clear Gosnell has a long, long track record of alleged abuses: "Gosnell has been named in at least 46 malpractice suits, including one over the death of a 22-year-old mother who died of sepsis and a perforated uterus in 2000. Many others also involve perforated uteruses. Gosnell sometimes sewed up the injury without telling women their uteruses had been perforated, prosecutors said." Early in yesterday's press conference, District Attorney Seth Williams said, "I am aware that abortion is a hot-button topic." He then added, "But as District Attorney, my job is to carry out the law. A doctor who knowingly and systematically mistreats female patients, to the point that one of them dies in his so-called care, commits murder under the law. A doctor who cuts into the necks severing the spinal cords of living, breathing babies, who would survive with proper medical attention, is committing murder under the law." Teresa Masterson of NBCPhiladelphia.com reported that Gosnell "is being charged with third degree murder for the death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar who allegedly overdosed on anesthetics prescribed by Gosnell." The grand jury found that "Gosnell wasn't at the clinic at the time, but directed his staff to administer the drug to keep the woman, a healthy 41-year-old woman, sedated until he arrived, prosecutors said," according to the AP. Reuters reported that the defendants are also "charged with first-degree murder in the cases of seven babies for which there is substantial evidence, Williams said." According to Williams, Gosnell "induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy" and "cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord," Dale reported. The irony is that the original investigation had nothing to do with abortion but stemmed from tips that police had received that "Gosnell was illegally selling thousands of oxycontin prescriptions to 'patients' he had never examined," Masterson reported. "After two patients allegedly died from complications in Gosnell's Women's Medical Society at 38th Street and Lancaster Avenue, authorities served the abortion doctor with search warrants for his practice and his home in Mantua last April," according to Masterson. "In the clinic, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration agents found abhorrent conditions, which included jars packed with severed baby feet lining the shelves; bags and bottles of aborted fetuses scattered throughout the office; bloodstained furniture and floors; and unlicensed employees who regularly injected sedatives into women having illegal, late-term abortions, according to Williams." The reported level of incompetence in staggering. "Workers, some of whom were also charged with murder, were untrained and unlicensed, including a high-school student who performed anesthesia with potentially lethal narcotics, Williams said." As for Gosnell he "started, but did not finish, a residency in obstetrics-gynecology," according to the AP. "He does not know how to do an abortion. He's not board certified," Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore told the AP. "Once he got them there, he saw dollar signs and did abortions that other people wouldn't do." Many of the women were poor, Dale reported, and were charged $325 for a first-trimester abortion and between $1,625 and $3,000 for abortions after 24 weeks. |