Justice- Part 3

 

Part Three: Gosnell Found Guilty of three-counts of first-degree murder, one count of involuntary Manslaughter; sentencing phase begins next week

 

By Dave Andrusko

Ilyse Hogue

In order to understand the incredibly self-serving statement issued by Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, in response to the guilty verdicts handed down against abortionist Kermit Gosnell, you have to remember that the Abortion Establishment is trying desperately to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse.

One of theirs—Kermit Gosnell and his Women’s Medical Society—stands convicted of three counts of first degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter. If you ever naive enough to think they would hang their heads, well, you don’t know NARAL.

“Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell today, and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed,” said Hogue. “We hope that the lessons of the trial do not fade with the verdict. Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell.”

Laura Bassett of Huffington Post

I could not find the actual statement, searching high and low (especially low). I finally found Hogue’s statement in a story written by a sympathetic pro-abortion writer, Laura Bassett, writing for the Huffington Post. Illustrative of the deception that is the woof and warp of how they have handled the Gosnell case, Bassett goes on to relay this almost obscenely misleading account.

“The National Abortion Federation, a professional association of U.S. abortion providers, rejected Gosnell’s application for admission in January 2010 because his clinic did not meet their guidelines for safety and quality of service. Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the NAF, told The Huffington Post in a phone interview that her inspectors did not witness any illegal activities at Gosnell’s clinic at the time, or they would have reported him to local authorities.”

Take five minutes to read the section of the Grand Jury report that addresses how the NAF investigator handled Gosnell’s request, which came the day after a woman died at his clinic (the same woman for whose death Gosnell was just convicted of involuntary manslaughter). NAF’s investigator found the clinic “beyond redemption.”

We read in the report that the staff tried to clean up the abortion clinic, prior to the NAF visit but…

Despite these efforts, the NAF review did not go well. The first thing the evaluator noted when she arrived at 3801 Lancaster Avenue was the lack of an effective security system. Although the door was locked, when she rang the bell, no one answered. Even though she could not gain entry by ringing, she was able to walk right in when a man exited the clinic. Once inside, she found that the facility was packed with so much “stuff, kind of crowded and piled all over the place,” that she couldn’t find a space to put her small overnight bag. She found the facility’s layout confusing, and was concerned that patients could not find their way around it or out of it. She was also concerned that there were plants everywhere, including in the procedure room and rooms designated as “labs.”

Most alarming was the bed where Gosnell told her out-of-state patients were allowed to spend the night. These patients were unattended and it was difficult to locate the bathroom facilities and the exits. Such a practice does not meet NAF protocols. The NAF evaluator watched a few first-trimester procedures. She noticed that no one was monitoring or taking vital signs of patients who were sedated during procedures. She asked Gosnell about the pulse oximeter that should have been used for monitoring, but he told her it was broken. Apparently, Karnamaya Mongar’s death a month earlier had not caused Gosnell to obtain equipment that worked.

The evaluator did not observe Gosnell’s practice of allowing unlicensed workers to sedate patients when he was not at the facility, as she was there only when Gosnell was there. Such a practice would not comply with NAF standards. The evaluator did note, however, that while she was talking to Gosnell in his office, a patient appeared to have been sedated by one of the staff. Such an action does not comport with NAF standards either. The evaluator cautioned Gosnell that he should make sure he was complying with state requirements because many states – including Pennsylvania – do not allow unlicensed workers to administer IV medications.

The evaluator explained to the Grand Jury, as did several medical experts, that because everyone reacts differently to anesthesia, a doctor has to be prepared for a patient to slip into a level of sedation beyond that intended. In cases in which Gosnell’s objective was deep sedation, therefore, he should have been prepared for the patient to react as if under general anesthesia. Significantly, it is not uncommon for patients under general anesthesia to lose the ability to breathe on their own.

Gosnell’s clinic – without the drugs, staff, or equipment necessary to monitor, resuscitate, or assist his patients in breathing – was not even close to meeting NAF standards or any other standard of care. The evaluator noted that Pennsylvania requires that anesthesia be administered only by licensed personnel, a regulation that Gosnell failed to follow even during the NAF review.

Aside from these life-threatening practices, the evaluator noted numerous deficiencies in the clinic’s recordkeeping, including no notation of RH blood-typing and no record of sedation medications administered or the level of sedation. The clinic’s consent procedures also failed to meet NAF standards. Even with the evaluator watching, patients were not being informed of the risks of the medications, the sedation, or the procedure itself.

The evaluator testified that during the “counseling” she witnessed, a patient was told that Pennsylvania requires a 24-hour waiting period between when a patient is counseled and when the abortion can be performed. After stating the requirement, however, the counselor, according to the evaluator, said: “Okay, well. When do you want to come back for the abortion? Do you want to come back at 8 p.m.?” When the patient’s mother said, “but I thought we had to wait 24 hours,” the staff person responded, “if you want to come back at 8 p.m., you can come back at 8 p.m.”

What was NAF’s response today again? The investigator did “not witness any illegal activities” so why bother making a report to local authorities? Or state authorities? Or anyone?
The silence, the hypocrisy, the dishonesty of these people is breathtaking and stomach-turning.
We’ve already written elsewhere about other evidence the abortion industry knew a lot more than it is letting on and that Gosnell is hardly an “outlier.” We are reprinting them today.
Check back with us tomorrow when NRL News Today will provide much more about the murder convictions of Kermit Gosnell.

Source: NRLC News