Why the Gosnell trial shocks
The details emerging from this trial are too graphic for us to even put into words, yet our society allows this same unspeakable torture of another human being to occur just so long as the baby is still inside the womb.
The Gosnell trial in conjunction with a Planned Parenthood lobbyist's recent admission that the abortion giant has no issue with this life-ending practice is lifting the veil of secrecy from an industry long shrouded from public scrutiny.
The Planned Parenthood lobbyist testified against a state law that would protect babies born alive after a botched abortion from being left to die, or worse yet, killed. She was asked about Planned Parenthood's position on whether an infant born in this situation should receive medical care, she repeatedly testified, "That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider."
Public outrage ensued. Planned Parenthood later removed their opposition to the bill, essentially arguing that this "extremely unlikely and highly unusual" set of circumstances doesn’t really happen.Read the grand jury report here.
A young woman who worked at Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic as a teenager testified that she saw a baby's chest move even after the gruesome snipping procedure Gosnell used to end the baby's life. "The chest was moving," she testified. The baby was so large that another worker even took a cellphone picture of it. Prosecution experts, based on the picture, say the baby was well past 24 weeks, the legal limit for abortion in Pennsylvania.
Another former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. "I can't describe it. It sounded like a little alien," he testified, telling a judge and Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury that the body of the child was about 18 to 24 inches long and was one of the largest babies she had seen delivered during abortion procedures at Gosnell's clinic.
Stephen Massof, who does not have a medical license, described how he jabbed medical scissors into the backs of babies' necks to kill them. He assisted Gosnell in "snipping" the spinal cords of babies, calling it, "literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body."
According to a news report, Massof told the jury that women were often given drugs to speed up delivery of the baby so the abortion/infanticide could take place: He testified that at times, when women were given medicine to speed up their deliveries, "it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place."
One day after a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion, another worker at the Kermit Gosnell "House of Horrors' abortion clinic testified that she saw a baby "jump" when she snipped her neck in an abortion. "It jumped, the arm," she said, showing the jury by raising her arm.
Another Gosnell clinic worker testified that she took photos of one particularly large baby, referred to by prosecutors as "Baby A," with her cell phone that was estimated to be about 30-weeks gestation. "Baby A" had been delivered alive into a toilet where she cut the baby's throat.
"Baby A" was described as being so large that his feet and arms hung out over the sides of the shoebox they put him in. Gosnell actually joked about the baby’s size saying, "This baby is big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop."
Prosecutors have cited the dozens of jars of severed baby feet as an example of Gosnell's idiosyncratic and illegal practice of providing abortions for cash to poor women pregnant longer than the 24-week cutoff for legal abortions in Pennsylvania. In her opening statement to the Common Pleas Court jury, Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore mused that the jars of feet were some kind of bizarre "trophy" Gosnell kept.
Gosnell's sister-in-law testified that it was it was part of her cleaning duties to dispose of the large bottle on the suction machine that would fill with blood and fetal remains. She would pour the blood and baby parts into the sink and grind them up using the garbage disposal.
It was revealed that on the night patient Karnamaya Mongar died the emergency exit was found to be locked and down a hallway crammed full of broken office furniture and other debris. Workers could not find the key as emergency personnel sought a way to get their Code Blue patient out of the facility and into an ambulance.
And here's Melissa Harris-Perry on why we shouldn't be regulating abortion mills. These "things" must not be allowed to intrude on our lives, damn it!
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