The Gosnell case: Here’s what you need to know

Washington Post ^ | April 15, 2013 | Sarah Kliff

[grundle]

The grand jury report is full of horrific and gruesome details about the clinic that Gosnell ran for more than three decades. Patients were neglected; providers were not certified; and cats were allowed to roam and defecate in the clinic.

“The walls appeared to be urine-splattered,” the Philadelphia district attorney’s office found when it inspected the clinic in August 2010, months after it had closed that February. “The procedure tables were old and one had a ripped plastic cover. Suction tubing, which was used for abortion procedures – and doubled as the only available suction source for resuscitation – was corroded.”

Pennsylvania law bars abortions after 24 weeks’ gestation, at which point a fetus is considered to be likely viable outside the womb. Gosnell performed multiple abortions at 24.5 weeks, and the grand jury report found that many of those procedures underestimated the period of gestation. One Gosnell employee estimated that about 40 percent of the clinic’s abortions occurred after 24 weeks. Gosnell, the grand jury found, killed the babies born alive in his clinic.

“Gosnell had a simple solution for the unwanted babies he delivered: he killed them,” the report said. “He didn’t call it that. He called it ‘ensuring fetal demise.’ The way he ensured fetal demise was by sticking scissors into the back of the baby’s neck and cutting the spinal cord.”

"Are you sure we're providing the proper care for this patient?"

"Of course - Kermit said it was standard procedure."

[Jim Robinson]

Abortion “rights” supporters? There is no such thing as an abortion right. Aborting a human baby is murder!!

[Slyfox]

This article includes the Grand Jury Report:

http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/PDFs/GrandJuryWomensMedical.pdf

[skinkinthegrass]

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[a fool in paradise]

Pennsylvania law bars abortions after 24 weeks’ gestation, at which point a fetus is considered to be likely viable outside the womb. Gosnell performed multiple abortions at 24.5 weeks

I thought I heard that he is believed to have FALSIFIED the age. Odd that there would be such prosecutions merely for 2-4 days "violation".

[a fool in paradise]

“We also do not understand how a report of this magnitude was not at least added to Gosnell’s file at the state department of health,” the report says. “It suggests to us that there may have been many more complaints that were never turned over to the Grand Jury.”

It was because of a pervasive culture of corruption within the CDC and elsewhere in that city.

[a fool in paradise]

PING, lengthy (although somewhat superficial) recap by the washington post

[TBP]

Somewhere, Margaret Sanger is smiling.

[Bon of Babble]

This is a good, concise report. I forced myself to read the detailed report because I couldn’t believe people could be so evil.

I’d also like whoever it is that did not inspect this house of horrors for years to be held accountable too.

These were heinous, murderous acts that should have been stopped YEARS ago.