Posted on 04/18/2013 12:37:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
PHILADELPHIA (AP) A former abortion clinic worker capped the five-week murder trial of her former boss with powerful testimony that she saw more than 10 babies breathe before they were killed.
"I thought they were breathing," Kareema Cross testified Thursday, explaining that she saw their chests go up and down. "He would say they're not really breathing," Cross, 28, is the final prosecution witness in the capital murder case against Dr. Kermit Gosnell. He is charged in the deaths of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive.
Cross also described seeing three babies move, one after being born in a toilet, and heard a fourth give a "soft whine."
Cross, who worked at the clinic from 2005 to 2009, was so disturbed by its operation that she took photos and called authorities, although she gave a relative's name.
A 2011 grand jury report blasts state and city officials for failing to inspect or shutter Gosnell's busy clinic in West Philadelphia. A 2010 FBI raid over Gosnell's separate pain management practice ultimately led to its closure.
The defense has denied that babies were born alive, and Cross is sure to face strenuous questioning Thursday afternoon from Gosnell's lawyer, Jack McMahon. Her direct testimony encompassed many of the charges against Gosnell and nine co-defendants.
She admitted that she studied only to be a medical assistant, but performed ultrasounds, gave anesthesia drugs and helped perform abortions.
She said she routinely saw Gosnell abort babies who were past the state's 24-week abortion limit. She said staff left late-term patients alone on the second floor after they'd been given painkillers and potent drugs to induce labor, and said some even stayed overnight unattended in a makeshift bedroom.
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Thanks lightman for the heads up
Sorry for the triple-ping - kept getting error messages, then they all went through.
Then there was no need for you to sever their spines with scissors, was there, you sick, evil so and so.
How about “Keep your rosaries off our ovaries.”
I’ve heard that many times while standing with my Catholic friends outside Planned Parenthood.
>>>Republicans should pass a law requiring abortions be videotaped.>>>
YES!!!!!
Wait. This didn’t happen on TV, so it didn’t happen.
I still cannot understand how pro-abortions support the idea that a fetus is not a human life - when...if a pregnant woman is murdered...the perp is charged with killing two humans. Especially late term pregnancies. Remember that guy, his name escapes me now, who killed his pregnant wife and put her in a boat and dumped her in the sea - he was charged with two murders.
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