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PHILADELPHIA - (AP) -- A lawyer defending a Philadelphia abortion provider on murder charges accused officials of "an elitist, racist prosecution," as the death-penalty trial opened Monday. Lawyer Jack McMahon also accused city officials of "a prosecutorial lynching" of his client, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is black. Gosnell, 72, is accused of running a rogue clinic that ignored the state ban on third-term abortions and 24-hour waiting periods. Prosecutors say he also maimed desperate, often poor women and teens by letting his untrained staff perform abortions and give anesthesia. And they say he got rich doing it, by performing a...

A doctor whose history of botched abortions led two states to revoke his medical license was performing abortions and essentially running an Atlantic City abortion clinic before it was forced to shut down last month, according to a report in the Press of Atlantic City. ...... But Brigham's 20 years as a doctor have been marked by troubles, including the near-death of a 20-year-old New Jersey resident whom Brigham left hemorrhaging and bleeding internally for four hours in a recovery room before realizing he could not treat her and transferring her to a hospital ....

Miramar, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The owner of an abortion business has been arrested on charges that unlicensed employees were working there. Belkis Gonzalez, who owns the A Gyn of Miramar abortion center was already under investigation in the case of a baby who was apparently born alive following a botched abortion at another center.Gonzalez was jailed on two felony counts related to abortions at the facility, also known as the Miramar Women's Center.The pro-life group Operation Rescue made news of the arrest known in a statement provided to LifeNews.com.It said Bill Robertson, an information officer in the Miramar police department,...