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04-16-2013, 09:15 PM
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Re: *Updated* PHILADELPHIA DOCTOR: Dr Kermit Gosnell 'killed Babies' at Abortion Clinic
medical school graduate has given a graphic account of working at a Philadelphia abortion clinic and how he routinely saw babies born alive and then killed with scissors Stephen Massof, 50, of Pittsburgh, was giving evidence at the trial of his former boss Kermit Gosnell on Thursday. Gosnell, 72, is accused of killing seven live babies at the Philadelphia Women’s Medical Society clinic and a woman who was administered too much anesthesia. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2QloflL8V Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook He also spoke of the gruesome scenes at the clinic which was allegedly found dirty and rundown with rusting surgical instruments. 'It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place. It is literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body,' he told NBC. He also alleges the clinic's ultrasound machine was manipulated to make fetuses appear smaller and therefore younger. The graduate explained how his medical degree came from Grenada in the West Indies and he hadn't completed medical residency when he joined Gosnell in 2003. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2QlolbUvQ Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook |
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05-13-2013, 06:24 PM
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Re: *Updated* PHILADELPHIA DOCTOR: Dr Kermit Gosnell 'killed Babies' at Abortion Clinic
Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell Convicted of First-Degree Murder By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder for the death of three babies that prosecutors said were delivered alive and subsequently killed. Gosnell, 72, could face the death penalty when the jury reconvenes for the sentencing phase next week. "He's disappointed and he's upset," defense lawyer, Jack McMahon, said of his client, who appeared calm in the courtroom. Gosnell was acquitted of one count of first-degree murder in a fourth abortion, NBCPhiladelphia.com reported. The jury also found Gosnell not guilty of third-degree murder but guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old woman who died after an anesthesia overdose during a 2009 abortion. Gosnell was convicted of a host of other charges, including infanticide, conspiracy and running a corrupt organization, NBCPhiladelphia.com reported. Defense attorney, Jack McMahon, tells reporters that Dr. Kermit Gosnell is upset over the murder verdicts against him, but that the jury did its work by dismissing the other murder charges. The verdict was announced on the 10th day of deliberations, capping a two-month trial that featured grisly testimony about botched late-term abortions and became a flashpoint for both sides in the national abortion debate. Many of the 250-plus counts were tied to violations of state abortion law, which prohibits terminating pregnancies after 24 weeks. The most serious charges stemmed from allegations that Gosnell delivered babies alive during late-term abortions and then snipped their spinal cords or directed underlings to do it. "It was literally a beheading," unlicensed medical-school graduate Stephen Massof, who worked at Gosnell’s clinic, testified during the trial. "It is separating the brain from the body." The defense denied that any of the births were live and said that Gosnell used drugs to stop the fetuses' hearts before they were delivered. Three counts of first-degree murder were dismissed during the trial for lack of evidence the fetuses were alive. McMahon said Gosnell got a, "fair trial," and noted that the case started with eight counts or murder and ended with convictions on three. "We have to deal with that," he said. Jury finds Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell guilty of three counts of first-degree murder for the death of three babies that prosecutors said were delivered alive and subsequently killed. NBC News' Chris Clackum reports. Asked whether he might be able to make a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty if he drops any plan to appeal, McMahon said, "that's always a possibility." Gosnell had no comment as he was brought out of the courthouse after changing from a suit into jailhouse garb. After a 2010 raid of the clinic, prosecutors charged nine workers, including his wife, with crimes ranging from perjury to murder. Eight pleaded guilty and a number took the stand against Gosnell. At the trial, Gosnell's co-defendant, Eileen O'Neilll was found guilty of conspiracy to commit corruption and theft by deception for deceiving patients and insurance companies by pretending to be a licensed physician. The allegations against Gosnell were detailed in a 300-page grand jury report that described his clinic as a filthy house of horrors full of broken-down equipment, splattered with blood, and staffed by unlicensed employees who did much of the medical work. Aborted fetuses and their body parts were stockpiled in cabinets and freezers, in plastic bags, bottles, even cat-food containers. Jars with severed feet lined shelves, prosecutors said. "It was a baby charnel house," the grand jury report said. Trial testimony was often graphic or disturbing. One employee testified that after Gosnell snipped the neck of a fetus delivered at 30 weeks, he joked it was big enough to, "walk to the bus stop." Massof said that so many women were given abortion-inducing drugs at once that, "it would rain fetuses ... fetuses and blood all over the place." Abortion opponents seized on the allegations against Gosnell as evidence that abortions are unsafe, while abortion-rights advocates argued that restricting access to abortion would drive women to unscrupulous clinics like the one he ran. Arthur Caplan, the head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center and an NBC News contributor, criticized authorities for taking so long to shut down the clinic but said his conviction, "does not resolve much concerning abortions in America." "If there are women who seek to end pregnancies late in fetal development, there will be other Gosnells who will crawl out to ‘help’ them," Caplan said. "The real solution to preventing future Gosnells is to make contraception widely available and put as few obstacles as possible between women and emergency contraception.” Original Post Here: http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...-clinic-68962/ · |
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05-14-2013, 12:13 PM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:662 Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 1,304 Mentioned: 14 Post(s) Quoted: 267 Post(s)
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Re: *Updated* PHILADELPHIA DOCTOR: Dr Kermit Gosnell 'killed Babies' at Abortion Clinic
nope. they are the victims of anti-choice propaganda. the only reason places like this exist, and the only reason women go to them, IS BECAUSE THEY ARE DESPERATE. they are desperate because of republican anti-choice legislation. they are desperate because they are being denied their rightful access to safe, legal abortions.
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05-14-2013, 05:35 PM
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Re: *Updated* PHILADELPHIA DOCTOR: Dr Kermit Gosnell 'killed Babies' at Abortion Clinic
Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has been sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison in exchange for not filing any appeals. There is one more charge pending. He needs that smirk wiped off his face! · |