Posted on 03/20/2013 5:49:27 AM PDT by IbJensen
PHILADELPHIA, March 19, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The capital murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell continued today, with one of his former medical assistants taking the stand to describe how she helped kill at least 10 babies who were born alive by slitting their spinal cords.
Gosnell is charged with murder in the case of seven babies who were allegedly born alive before the abortionist killed them by severing their spines – his preferred method of “aborting” late-term babies, according to his former staff.
(Adrienne Moton)
Staff have testified that “hundreds” of newborn babies were killed in this fashion at Gosnell’s Philadelphia clinic, which was dubbed a “House of Horrors” after investigators raided the facility in February 2010.
He is also facing one additional count of third degree murder for the death of Karnamaya Mongar, 41, who sought an abortion at his clinic and was given a lethal overdose of medication.
Former medical assistant Adrienne Moton, who herself pleaded guilty to third degree murder charges in October last year, reportedly sobbed her way through her testimony in court today.
She recounted how she took a photograph with her cellphone of one baby she admitted killing, called “Baby A.” That photo was displayed on a large screen in the courtroom. (That photo can be seen on page 102 of the grand jury report.)
Moton said that the baby, which she estimated to be 30 weeks gestation, was pink, and that she thought that he could have survived.
The mother of “Baby A” also testified, telling the courtroom about the painful three-day abortion she underwent at Gosnell’s clinic when she was 17 years-old.
“I never felt pain like that, ever,” the woman said, according to the Associated Press. “I couldn’t talk to anybody and tell anybody.”
According to the grand jury report that was released in July 2011, Gosnell charged $2,500 for the “abortion,” after discovering that the baby was further along than he originally thought.
The grand jury report includes the account of another of Gosnell’s employees, Kareema Cross, describing the moment of Baby A’s birth:
After the baby was expelled, Cross noticed that he was breathing, though not for long. After about 10 to 20 seconds, while the mother was asleep, “the doctor just slit the neck,” said Cross. Gosnell put the boy’s body in a shoebox. Cross described the baby as so big that his feet and arms hung out over the sides of the container. Cross said that she saw the baby move after his neck was cut, and after the doctor placed it in the shoebox. Gosnell told her, “it’s the baby’s reflexes. It’s not really moving.”
A neonatologist who testified on behalf of the grand jury said that Gosnell’s explanation for the baby’s movements was false, and that in all likelihood Gosnell failed immediately to kill the baby, and that his “few moments of life were spent in excruciating pain.”
The neonatologist also estimated the baby’s age as around 32 weeks gestation.
Moton also testified in court that Gosnell joked about the size of Baby A, saying that he thought the baby was big enough to get up and walk to the bus stop.
The mother of Baby A was subsequently admitted to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with a severe infection and blood clots that had travelled to her lungs. According to her aunt, she nearly died, and took months to recover.
Investigators say that she was but one of numerous Gosnell’s clients who were injured during “abortions.”
Moton also recounted how in another case she slit the neck of a baby, known as Baby D, that was born alive in a toilet. That baby was estimated at 24.5 weeks gestation, the threshold for viability.
Moton, like many of those who assisted Gosnell at his facility, had no medical training. She was paid around $10 an hour, under the table, to perform tasks normally reserved for highly trained professionals.
She herself underwent two abortions at the hands of Gosnell.
Gosnell’s lawyer is arguing that the prosecution can’t prove that any of the seven babies he stands accused of murdering were born alive. He told the courtroom yesterday that the prosecution of his client is a racist-inspired “lynching.”
Prosecutor Joanne Pescatore said in her opening statements yesterday that under the law, if a baby is born alive, “you can’t kill it.”
"The baby is alive, you're a doctor, you have to do the minimum," she said. "If it moves, breathes, has a pulsating umbilical cord, you can't kill it. That's murder."
Pro-life activists have highlighted the irony that if Gosnell has been skilled enough to kill the babies before they were born, he would not now be facing murder charges.
To think that this is their occupation; how they 'earn' the money to care for their families is sickening.
Every death of a baby is a sacrifice to their god Satan and is how they exhibit proof of their membership in the socialist movement. These murderers will have to answer to God, when the time arrives for an accounting of their brutality on earth. Abortion should be a crime of murder in the first degree.
Who would do that? That woman needs to be charged with murder. When did it become a defense that someone told you to kill someone?
This is the natural “progress” that results from applied leftism.
Kill a kid with a knife...Okay. Use a gun...bad.
"Just following orders" didn't work well as a defense at Nuremberg.
The murderers weren't a protected minority.
He told the courtroom yesterday that the prosecution of his client is a racist-inspired “lynching.”
Interesting statistic. It would take a thousand Sandy Hooks to equal the number of LATE TERM (viable babies) aborted EVERY SINGLE YEAR in this country. Yes, the libs are really concerned about human life.
The race card covers murder. I wonder what’s happening in the case of 11 Bailey O’Neill, who was beaten, hospitalised, and died in a coma? Nothing in the media that I can find, since he died. Certainly no national figure crying “This could have been my boy”, and calling for marches, lynching the perpetrators, etc.
Nuremberg. 1945.
I fail to understand how, in Heaven’s name, anyone can do this. I don’t even know if hell has a place for them. Hope so. Those poor babies who will know the warmth and security of loving arms.
I actually get chills when I read stories about this.
My mother was born at home (preemie) in 1914. They put HER in a shoebox with a hot water bottle and nothing "hung over". She died at 87 with a second round of breast cancer. Gave birth to two strapping sons, both still going.
Her grandmom said that a silver dollar (Ben Franklin, not Susan B.) would cover her face.
If it were up to Obama, these killings would be perfectly leagal. He voted against legislation banning the murder of born alive infants 3 times in the Illinois Senate.
Unreal. Hey, Michael Moore called, he said show the pictures in the news and it will advance the pro-life cause!
Oh wait..
They were probably all the result of a rape, so it’s OK, right?
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Somehow we must win this battle in the MSM. All the facts AND emotion should be on our side. We need to start using the terminology “Death penalty for the pre-born”
They are just being logical. There is no difference between a baby in the womb and the same baby outside of the womb. Killing one is the same as killing the other.
A law that makes it “legal” to kill one is an invalid law, and is not binding.
My Father was an old time country doctor and delivered hundreds of babies. The very thought of abortion was repugnant to him. He often said that God will surely punish us for allowing the murder of innocent babies through abortion.
When I was a kid at the end of WW II we all wondered how Germany could have been so amoral as to slaughter Jews, now I know, God help us we all know.
slaughtering babes after they are born
the left will love it
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