The grand jury report in the case of Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell – charged with the murder of seven infants and one mother at his clinic in Philadelphia – is truly the most horrific thing I have ever read.
According to the report, Gosnell, now 72, and his unlicensed staff performed “hundreds” of procedures on women who were in their final trimester of pregnancy. (The majority of these murders cannot be prosecuted because the files were destroyed.) The process he called “snipping” and “ensuring fetal demise” involved cutting a baby’s spinal cord with scissors.
One intern who worked at the Women’s Medical Society when she was just 15 testified on Thursday that she heard the newborns “screeching” and could see them breathing before they were killed.
