Pennsylvania abortion doctor killed 7 babies (or more) with scissors

[Tender Branson]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants and poor women in a "house of horrors" clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made millions of dollars over 30 years, performing as many illegal, late-term abortions as he could, prosecutors said. State regulators ignored complaints about him and failed to inspect his clinic since 1993, but no charges were warranted against them given time limits and existing law, District Attorney Seth Williams said. Nine of Gosnell's employees also were charged.

Gosnell "induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord," Williams said.

Patients were subjected to squalid and barbaric conditions at Gosnell's Women's Medical Society, where Gosnell performed dozens of abortions a day, prosecutors said. He mostly worked overnight hours after his untrained staff administered drugs to induce labor during the day, they said.

Early last year, authorities went to investigate drug-related complaints at the clinic and stumbled on what Williams called a "house of horrors."

Bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses "were scattered throughout the building," Williams said. "There were jars, lining shelves, with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose."

The clinic was shut down and Gosnell's medical license was suspended after the raid.

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Disgusting ...

[Holmes]

smh.

[SvenssonRS]

Alright...I'm pro-choice and all, but this is pretty damned Ed Gein, if you get the meaning.

[Person Man]

Alright...I'm pro-choice and all, but this is pretty damned Ed Gein, if you get the meaning.

[Brittain33]

Alright...I'm pro-choice and all, but this is pretty damned Ed Gein, if you get the meaning.

Without getting into a debate about abortion... the pro-choice position would abhor this guy's work as much as anyone else and consider it a consequence of the difficulty of getting a safe and legal abortion in a regulated medical environment.

[SvenssonRS]

Alright...I'm pro-choice and all, but this is pretty damned Ed Gein, if you get the meaning.

Without getting into a debate about abortion... the pro-choice position would abhor this guy's work as much as anyone else and consider it a consequence of the difficulty of getting a safe and legal abortion in a regulated medical environment.

Well, yeah, I'd certainly hope they'd abhor it. I was just saying, for whatever reason.

[Person Man]

This issue is a tragedy and should have nothing to do with whether or not abortion should be legal. This wasn't abortion. This was infanticide.

[SvenssonRS]

This issue is a tragedy and should have nothing to do with whether or not abortion should be legal. This wasn't abortion. This was infanticide.

Much as I agree, you can pretty much guarantee - unfortunately - that this will lead to such debates.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Alright...I'm pro-choice and all, but this is pretty damned Ed Gein, if you get the meaning.

I concur.

[Landslide Lyndon]

This monster practicing medicine is as unfathomable as a mentally ill guy like Loughner being able to buy a gun.

[Brittain33]

Alright...I'm pro-choice and all, but this is pretty damned Ed Gein, if you get the meaning.

Without getting into a debate about abortion... the pro-choice position would abhor this guy's work as much as anyone else and consider it a consequence of the difficulty of getting a safe and legal abortion in a regulated medical environment.

Well, yeah, I'd certainly hope they'd abhor it. I was just saying, for whatever reason.

Gotcha. Yeah, it's vile.

[opebo]

When I first read this thread title it just said 'Pennsylvania abortion doctor killed', so I was pretty worried.  Imagine my relief.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Migrendel?

[Franzl]

When I first read this thread title it just said 'Pennsylvania abortion doctor killed', so I was pretty worried.  Imagine my relief.

You don't think this is a problem at all?

eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.

[SvenssonRS]

When I first read this thread title it just said 'Pennsylvania abortion doctor killed', so I was pretty worried.  Imagine my relief.

You don't think this is a problem at all?

eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Don't worry, he's officially been reported for being demented.

[tpfkaw]

Alright...I'm pro-choice and all, but this is pretty damned Ed Gein, if you get the meaning.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

When I first read this thread title it just said 'Pennsylvania abortion doctor killed', so I was pretty worried.  Imagine my relief.

You don't think this is a problem at all?

eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Don't worry, he's officially been reported for being demented.

Why do you report posts?

[SvenssonRS]

When I first read this thread title it just said 'Pennsylvania abortion doctor killed', so I was pretty worried.  Imagine my relief.

You don't think this is a problem at all?

eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Don't worry, he's officially been reported for being demented.

Why do you report posts?

I've tried to lay off it lately, but behavior like that would be begging for it on any forum.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

When I first read this thread title it just said 'Pennsylvania abortion doctor killed', so I was pretty worried.  Imagine my relief.

You don't think this is a problem at all?

eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Don't worry, he's officially been reported for being demented.

Why do you report posts?

I've tried to lay off it lately, but behavior like that would be begging for it on any forum.

Just stop.....ingore him or move by his posts.........

[Keystone Phil]

More great news out of my lovely city, right? 

[Person Man]

More great news out of my lovely city, right? 

Always sunny in Philidelphia, right? The last "love of my life" is from that city. Craziest bitch you will ever meet...she was a grown businesswoman that thought the terrorists were causing her bed to shake.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

More great news out of my lovely city, right? 

Always sunny in Philidelphia, right? The last "love of my life" is from that city. Craziest bitch you will ever meet...she was a grown businesswoman that thought the terrorists were causing her bed to shake.

She was cheating on you with a terrorist?  Damn. 

[Phony Moderate]

Where do the scissors go?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Alright...I'm pro-choice and all, but this is pretty damned Ed Gein, if you get the meaning.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Kermit, though. I mean... oh God, that's bleakly funny.