Posted on 04/10/2013 2:44:49 PM PDT by markomalley
Lynda Williams told a jury Tuesday that her boss, Kermit Gosnell, was aware she suffered from bi-polar disorder and depression when he hired her to work at his “House of Horrors” abortion clinic in West Philadelphia assisting with late-term abortions. In fact, she was being treated by Gosnell for the mental health illnesses.
Another clinic worker, Elizabeth Hampton, previously testified she suffered from depression and anxiety in addition to alcohol abuse, and that she once had a “nervous breakdown.” Yet another former Gosnell employee who testified, Sherry West, also admitted to being treated for mental health disorders.
Williams told the court that the practice of snipping the spinal cords of newborns through the back of the neck was “routine” at Gosnell’s clinic as a means of ensuring “fetal demise.”
“The problem with this notion is that newborn babies are not considered ‘fetuses’ anymore and killing them classified as murder. Gosnell never bothered to tell that to his undereducated and emotionally troubled clinic workers,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.
Williams has already pled guilty to two counts of third degree murder for killing babies via Gosnell’s neck-snipping procedure and to conspiracy. By testifying against her former boss, she hopes to avoid the death penalty or life in prison. She will be sentenced after Gosnell’s trial concludes and faces the possibility of 100 years in prison.
Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore asked Williams if she knew what she did was murder. To that Williams responded, “No, I didn’t.”
“I only do what I’m told to do,” she told the court. “What I was told to do was snip their neck.”
One news report described Williams as testifying “in a flat, emotionless voice and at times seemed catatonic, taking several seconds before reacting to questions.”
She told the court how Gosnell was absent one day when an abortion patient spontaneously delivered her baby into a toilet after heavy doses of Cytotec, a drug that causes strong uterine contractions. As instructed by Gosnell, Williams turned the baby over and inserted the scissors into his neck.
“It jumped, the arm,” Williams testified, demonstrating the arm motion to the jury.
The News Journal described William’s testimony:
When Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore initially pressed Williams to describe what she saw when she cut the neck of the child delivered in a toilet, Williams responded with a blank stare and silence.
Williams responded similarly when asked about seeing Gosnell cut the necks of babies who were delivered before abortion procedures, admitting after reviewing earlier statements that she had seen Gosnell do it at least 30 times.
Gosnell is currently standing trial on seven counts of first degree murder for killing newborn babies delivered during abortions. Gosnell has also been charged with one count of third degree murder for the overdose death of his abortion patient, Karnamaya Mongar. If convicted, Gosnell could face the death penalty.
Williams, 44, told jurors that she went to work for Gosnell after her husband was murdered in 2007 and she could no longer keep the hours required of her job sterilizing surgical instruments at an abortion clinic in Wilmington, Delaware, where Gosnell also worked. Desperate for money, Gosnell gave her a job “under the table” even though she only had an eighth grade education and a certificate as a “phlebotomist.” Despite her troubling lack of education and training, after two weeks on the job she was doing ultrasounds and inserting IVs.
Williams began assisting with abortions and said Gosnell taught her how to turn the babies over and snip their spinal cords with surgical scissors.
Williams was present during Karnamaya Mongar’s abortion and testified that she repeatedly administered Demerol to her because Mongar was in pain. During the abortion, Williams mentioned to Gosnell her concern that Mongar’s breathing had slowed and she had turned gray. Williams testified that Gosnell continued with the abortion procedure then began to administer CPR. He told Williams to call 911.
Williams also testified that Gosnell would often alter medical records to make it appear that the babies he was aborting were under the legal limit in Pennsylvania of 24 weeks. She said that drugs were often out-of-date and ineffective. Williams told the court that if a woman squirmed in pain during the procedure, Gosnell would slap her leg hard enough to leave a handprint.
“The testimony from this trial is a rare look into abuses inflicted upon women daily by the abortion industry. As grisly as it is, it is important to understand this case because many of the abuses Gosnell inflicted upon women are also committed at abortion clinics around the nation. Many aspects of Gosnell’s seedy abortion operation are the rule and not the exception at U.S. abortion clinics. This trial is helping to expose that fact,” said Newman.
You shoot a bunch of kids its the biggest news ever
You stab a bunch and it might be ordinary news for a couple days
You snap the neck of babies and its not even newsworthy
Dear God. Help us.
Of course she jumped. What did she think she would do? (or was it a he?)
Hitler liked people ike her
Horrible. I cannot even imagine being so stupid that you could murder a baby and not even care.
This is just health care. Nothing to see. Move along. /s
These people are mass murderers. There will be a day when people look back at these dark times and wonder, “Why didn’t the people do something about this? They had to have known it was happening.”
bump
Dear God. Help us.
This is evil...just reading some of it — I’m sorry, but I’m a combat vet from Iraq and served with Blackwater — I’ve seen things as a police officer as well...but this crap is evil - cold chilling evil...humanity cannot go on allowing such to occur and still think we are advanced...it’s beyond anything an animal would do — it goes against God and all that it is equal in the universe....
unreal isn’t it.
It is exactly mass murder.
it is totally unreal
When a country has more feelings for animals than for humans, its demise is certain.
Does this sound vaguely familiar to anyone?
We are in hell and we don’t even know it.
Thank you for your service and your conscience.
Lord, come quickly!
HF
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