You Need to Know

I hadn't clicked to read or see more about the previously mentioned Dr. Kermit Gosnell, because I feared what I would learn..I decided I needed to learn more about all of these atrocious people and share it with who will listen...it disturbs me to the core...it will take a lot of distraction to get to sleep.


This is the truth unbiased.

However you feel about the issue, everyone needs to learn what's really going on. Please spend some time thinking about where you really stand, and read this Report of the Grand Jury on the Philadelphia clinic run by Gosnell.

   I am not going to paste any pictures because it is horrifying to see babies weighing as much as my babies as newborns, with slits in the back of their necks, and I couldn't bear to see them on my blog next to my kids' happy faces. I couldn't help but cry and pray for these babies and for all the defenseless ones to suffer this fate. If you'd like to read the Operation Rescue article on his arrest click here.

Here are crucial snippets from the Grand Jury's report IN THEIR WORDS:

 This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women.  What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors.  The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among
them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels – and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths.  Over the years, many people came to know that
something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it. 

 Let us say right up front that we realize this case will be used by those on both sides of the abortion debate.  We ourselves cover a spectrum of personal beliefs about the morality of abortion.  For us as a criminal grand jury, however, the case is not about that controversy; it is about disregard of the law and disdain for the lives and health of mothers and infants.  We find common ground in exposing what happened here, and in recommending measures to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.

The clinic reeked of animal urine, courtesy of the cats that were allowed to roam (and defecate) freely.  Furniture and blankets were stained with blood.  Instruments were not properly sterilized.  Disposable medical supplies were not disposed of; they were
reused, over and over again.  Medical equipment – such as the defibrillator, the EKG, the pulse oximeter, the blood pressure cuff – was generally broken; even when it worked, it wasn't used.  The emergency exit was padlocked shut.  And scattered throughout, in cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs, were fetal remains.  It was a baby charnel house. 

The report goes on to say that in his clinic, Gosnell was the ONLY licensed physician, not even a nurse was employed. The other women there were still called "Doctor" to make the patients feel comfortable. The other employees were also able to diagnose, prescribe and kill too. He himself wasn't certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Because it wasn't about health--it was a profit. By day, although Gosnell wasn't there, (he left signed script pads to be filled out by other employees) the business was prescribing painkillers--which brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars. He stayed home "relaxing and exercising." By night, it was an abortion mill, many times late term---and I mean, like up to their due dates. The Grand Jury continued:

 With abortion, as with prescriptions, Gosnell’s approach was simple: keep volume high, expenses low – and break the law.  That was his competitive edge. Pennsylvania, like other states, permits legal abortion within a regulatory framework.  Physicians must, for example, provide counseling about the nature of the procedure.  Minors must have parental or judicial consent.  All women must wait 24 hours after first visiting the facility, in order to fully consider their decision.  But Gosnell’s compliance with such requirements was casual at best.  At the Women’s Medical Society, the only question that really mattered was whether you had the cash. Too young?  No problem.  Didn’t want to wait?  Gosnell provided same-day service. 

 The real key to the business model, though, was this: Gosnell catered to the women who couldn’t get abortions elsewhere – because they were too pregnant.   Most doctors won’t perform late second-trimester abortions, from approximately the 20th week of pregnancy, because of the risks involved.  And late-term abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy are flatly illegal.  But for Dr. Gosnell, they were an opportunity.  The bigger the baby, the more he charged.

There was one small problem.  The law requires a measurement of gestational age, usually done by an ultrasound.  The ultrasound film would leave documentary proof that the abortion was illegal.  Gosnell’s solution was simply to fudge the measurement process.  Instead of hiring proper ultrasound technicians, he “trained” the staff himself, showing them how to aim the ultrasound probe at an angle to make the fetus look smaller.  If one of his workers nonetheless recorded an ultrasound measurement that was too big, it would just be redone.  Invariably these second ultrasounds would come in lower.  In fact, almost every time a second ultrasound was taken, the gestational age would be recorded as precisely 24.5 weeks – slightly past the statutory cutoff. Apparently Gosnell thought he would get away with abortions that were just a little illegal.  In reality, of course, most of these pregnancies were considerably more advanced. 

And the report says Gosnell's staff would give labor-inducing medications to late-term patients at night, and he would come in at 9 or 10pm, and only deal with the women that were ready to deliver--although some delivered before he came in. He maximized pain and danger for his patients, so as to minimize cost and effort on his part. The only problem for him and his staff, was that they delivered live squirming babies...his solution:

 Gosnell had a simple solution for the unwanted babies he delivered: he killed them.  He didn’t call it that.  He called it “ensuring fetal demise.”  The way he ensured fetal demise was by sticking scissors into the back of the baby’s neck and cutting the spinal cord.  He called that “snipping.”

And many times when he wasn't in the office for a delivery, his fake 'doctors' or even administrative staff (and now we learn even his wife..) did the 'snipping'...like it was nothing. How callous could they be? Of course when the pregnancy was a little too far along (>35 wks..) he didn't want his staff there..only his wife..he saved those for Sundays. And he would then take the medical records home to destroy the evidence. The babies were so grown that he even joked, "this one could walk me to the bus stop!" after murdering him.

After the baby was expelled, Cross noticed that he was breathing, though not for long. After about 10 to 20 seconds, while the mother was asleep, “the doctor just slit the neck,” said Cross. Gosnell put the boy’s body in a shoebox. Cross described the baby as so big that his feet and arms hung out over the sides of the container. Cross said that she saw the baby move after his neck was cut, and after the doctor placed it in the shoebox. Gosnell told her, “it’s the baby’s reflexes. It’s not really moving.”  The neonatologist testified that what Gosnell told his people was absolutely false. If a baby moves, it is alive. Equally troubling, it feels a “tremendous amount of pain” when its spinal cord is severed. So, the fact that Baby Boy A. continued to move after his spinal cord was cut with scissors means that he did not die instantly. Maybe the cord was not completely severed. In any case, his few moments of life were spent in excruciating pain. 

Even the staff took pictures of this baby boy...because they "knew it was wrong." The picture is a huge intact  baby boy in a box...so sad. The 15 yr old employee Ashley recalls another full term abortion:

Ashley heard the infant cry. She saw the baby move while it was on the counter. She estimated the infant was at least 12 inches long. When Gosnell arrived at the clinic, she recalled, “he snipped the neck, and said there is nothing to worry about, and he suctioned it.” 

Another employee witnessed Gosnell's disgusting sense of humor:

Tina Baldwin told the jurors that Gosnell once joked about a baby that was writhing as he cut its neck: “that’s what you call a chicken with its head cut off.” 

 The report then exposes the numerous injuries and even deaths of the patients Gosnell 'treated'. Some were left for hours after having their uterus punctured, bowels and colon torn, unconscious, bleeding, and when family or friends wanted in or out, he wouldn't allow them!!!! They had to threaten to call the cops. He even sent home patients he knew still had baby parts inside them, even when they exhibited signs of serious infections.

    He left his untrained and unlicensed staff to administer labor-inducing drugs, not monitoring vital signs or dosages, which left the women in horrible pain---but he didn't like the screaming or moaning, so he advised them to be drugged into a stupor. The more money you paid, the more pain relief you'd get.

And if you want to hear some real racism:

   Only in one class of cases did Gosnell exercise any real care with these dangerous sedatives.  On those rare occasions when the patient was a white woman from the suburbs, Gosnell insisted that he be consulted at every step.  When an employee asked him why, he said it was “the way of the world."

So who cares about all the black city families who you know can't afford to sue you?

Karnamaya Mongar was not a 'privilged' patient. She was a 41 yr old Nepalese refugee who couldn't speak much English:

  When she arrived at the clinic, Gosnell, as usual, was not there.  Office workers had her sign various forms that she could not read, and then began doping her up.  She received repeated unmonitored, unrecorded intravenous injections of Demerol, a sedative seldom used in recent years because of its dangers.  Gosnell liked it because it was cheap. 

 After several hours, Mrs. Mongar simply stopped breathing.  When employees finally noticed, Gosnell was called in and briefly attempted to give CPR.  He couldn’t use the defibrillator (it was broken); nor did he administer emergency medications that might have restarted her heart.  After further crucial delay, paramedics finally arrived, but Mrs. Mongar was probably brain dead before they were even called.  In the meantime, the clinic staff hooked up machinery and rearranged her body to make it look like they had been in the midst of a routine, safe abortion procedure.

The report goes on to say that even after paramedics arrived, they were able to generate a weak pulse, but the emergency exits were padlocked and exits so cluttered, it took an extra 20 minutes to get her out. And since there was no one to monitor how much, when or who administer anesthesia, there was no way to know how to treat her. She was taken off life support the next day.

   The Grand jury then expresses frustration at all departments in place in Pennsylvania that are supposed to oversee clinics..who decided it was politically correct for them to stop investigating clinics at all---for fear they would be "putting up a barrier" to women seeking abortions...Even after confronted with deaths, injuries, even reports from a former employee over a decade ago describing the filth, the over-prescribing painkillers, the underage girls, the late terms...NO ONE did anything.

  Why has this all come to light? ONLY because police raided his offices because of his illegal prescription selling business...and they walked in to find dead babies in freezers and fridges where employees kept lunch, in shoe boxes, in juice or milk jugs, bio-hazard bags in the basement, and even babies' feet (big enough to be full term) preserved in mason jars for Gosnell's personal pleasure. He paid off complaining victims, whose claims were filed with the health dept, but none of Gosnell's long record cause any red flags...for decades.

 A search of his home revealed a filing cabinet in his 12 yr old daughters closet--it had inside patient files, $240,000 and a hand gun.

 The report estimates that he took in as much as $10,000-$15,000 a night mostly in cash for a few hours of killing delivered live babies--the amount doesn't include the drug sales he made.

The deaths of women and of countless viable babies were a direct and foreseeable consequence of the reckless and illegal manner in which Gosnell operated his clinic.

When [employee] Latosha Lewis began work at the clinic in 2000, the practice would perform approximately 20 first-trimester and 5 or 6 second-trimester abortions every procedure night. (they performed abortions on mondays, tuesday, thursdays and Saturdays...and he and his wife did the really late ones on Sundays..) 

Apparently Gosnell used to follow the 24-hr waiting period law, but when patients stopped returning after their initial $125 visit, he disregarded the law and did them the same day, so they wouldn't change their minds (and he could get paid, typically cash).

  Patients poured in from out of state to obtain illegal late term abortions..Some of them left to sleep in the dirty office, with no monitoring--all staff went home. They were given meds to cause painful labor, then knocked out to shut them up, with heavy strong painkillers. Many of them gave birth on the floor, on a lounge, even in the toilet:
   

A lot of times this happened when [Gosnell] wasn’t there. If . . . a baby was about to come out, I would take the woman to the bathroom, they would sit on the toilet and basically the baby would fall out and it would be in the toilet and I would be rubbing her back and trying to calm her down for two, three, four hours until Dr. Gosnell comes. She would not move.

  A supposed janitor of the building mentioned having to clean out the pipes:

 He testified that sometimes patients “miscarried or whatever it was” into the toilet and clogged it. He described how he had to lift the toilet 31so that someone else – he said it was too disgusting for him – could get the fetuses out of the pipes.

When babies didn't come out on their own, Gosnell had his staff push on the women's abdomen to force them out....debilitating pain for the woman and baby. Most of his staff had no relevant training, but he told them of a "grandfather clause" whereby he would train them, which counts as certification...even employing an employee's 15 yr old daughter--who worked 50 hr work weeks in this shop of horrors. Another employee had Hep C--no precautions to prevent spreading it.

  A woman who worked for Gosnell very briefly was simply instructed on how to administer anesthesia in a 15 minute lesson by Gosnell and expected to deal with a full clinic at night alone...she made an excuse and drove away never to return. She subsequently filed reports:

 “she has never experienced an illegally run, unsanitary, and unethical facility such as the Women’s Medical Society operated by Dr. Gosnell.”



Other's testified that they continually for days drugged up women for their procedures, putting them out with meds if they complained or moaned...they said Gosnell even would slap the patients on their thighs to shut them up--and then drugged them. (Some complained of marks on thighs afterward).

  Even when patients had changes of hearts, he wouldn't stop the procedure or remove the laminaria (to dilate cervix) because he didn't want to get caught doing late-term abortions, and he didn't want to refund them. Thankfully one 28 yr old woman pregnant with her first baby, went to a hospital and had the laminaria removed. Her daughter was born premature, and it was verified that she was much further along then Gosnell stated. She is a healthy kindergartener today.

  Obviously he had no qualms with breaking the law--he also commited fraud by collecting funds even from out of state pro-choice funds, insurance companies, and charging for appts with his unlicensed staff, as if they were doctors. Even the evil National Abortion Federation didn't approve the clinic to be associated with them upon inspection---but did NOT report their disgusting findings to the health depts.

  Gosnell had been permitted to kill and maim for money even since the 70's---he and a friend invented a "super coil" abortion method that they put into practice in an experiment they called "Mother's Day Massacre"--they bused in 15 women from Chicago to perform abortions on mother's day...the women were not told the abortions were experimental---that they would have a ball stuck in them, coated with thick gel...and that once the gel melted, spikes would be revealed and dice up their babies----obviously causing numerous complications, sickness and death. EVEN after all that, his business thrived for another 40 yrs...making him rich. And all of this is now in the public eye because of a drug raid...


Please pray to end abortion and all child abuse...pray to guide women away from the hands of the evil abortion industry.