Recapping the Gosnell saga: 11 eye-opening testimonies and quotes
By Lauren Enriquez
Abortionist Kermit Gosnell
Below are a few snapshots of the trial and what led up to it, testimonies of former Gosnell patients, and a glimpse into the mind of the man who is Kermit Gosnell.
Seth Williams, Philadelphia District Attorney:
What [authorities executing a search
warrant of the Gosnell facility] discovered… was blood-stained walls,
blood-stained beds, and unclean sheets. They found jar after jar after
jar filled with fetal remains, and specifically severed feet in jars.
They found medical waste bags just strewn everywhere. What they learned
was that he was running an abortion clinic, for the most part a
late-term abortion clinic…
Makeda, Former Gosnell Patient [from the documentary “3801 Lancaster”]:
So when I got pregnant again I went
to the clinic and I asked them… “Is it OK that I get, you know, another
abortion?” ”Fine, fine”. They even like had this woman sit down and she
told me that women in Brazil have at least twenty-one abortions, and
she’s like, “They’re still able to conceive…” And, that was it for me.
That was where I basically said, you know what, this has to be OK. It
was the norm for me after she had coached me into believing that that
was the norm. I would say the next fourteen years… within that time I
had eight abortions. Eight. And I look back at it and it’s like God,
what was I thinking? It just seemed like it was OK, it was so OK to go
in there and get it done as long as you had the money.
Joseph Slobodzian, reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer:
The prosecutors contend that [Kermit Gosnell's late-term abortion business] made him a millionaire.
Report of the Grand Jury on Kermit Gosnell:
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.
CNS News:
According to the grand jury report in
the case, clinic workers testified that babies often expelled from
their mothers into the toilet and that, in at least one instance, the
toilet was lifted from the floor to “get the fetuses out of the pipes.”
…I got pregnant, and someone told me
about this clinic at 3801 Lancaster Avenue. I remember it like it was
yesterday. There was a fish tank in the waiting area. Then you had a
receptionist that just, like, all she wanted was your money immediately.
They came in and they finally called my name, and I went upstairs. And I
remember just walking through looking and seeing some women that looked
half-dead in these bloody recliner chairs, and blood all over the
floor. And I just kept going. I didn’t see him until I was hooked up
with IVs and when they put the heart monitor around me, that’s when I
decided I can’t do this. And he’s like “Oh, stop being a little baby,”
and he’s pounding on my legs, “Stop being a little baby, stop being a
little baby!” And now I’m outnumbered, cause all these women came in and
I’m like tied to the bed. And the next thing I know, I’m out of it.
I woke up and I was sitting next to
another girl. And at first when I woke up I didn’t know where I was. I
just knew I was really groggy and I knew I wasn’t pregnant anymore. And I
was crying and I kept saying “I want my baby I want my baby,” and they
just were ignoring me.
Seth Williams, Philadelphia District Attorney:
Dr. Gosnell had a process that he
referred to as “snipping.” Women would come, specific medicines would be
given that would induce labor. They would then take scissors and place
them at the base of the skull and snip or sever the spinal cords of
those children that were born alive.
Ann Ponterio, Assistant District Attorney:
There was one baby that when it was
born, one of the workers was playing with it for several minutes before
the worker did exactly what Dr. Gosnell did. Snip the back of the neck.
And when we use the word snip, it is a scissors taking the bony part of a
vertebrae and cutting it. This is a very, very painful thing. And some
of these babies did not die immediately. And they describe these bodies
as twitching and lifeless.
Stephen Masoff [an unlicensed doctor working for Gosnell]:
“We call [snipping the spinal cord] a
transection, but it’s literally a beheading… [I] felt like a fireman in
hell. I couldn’t put out all the fires… I would run around with
scissors.”
Randy Hutchins, Former Gosnell staffer:
[T]here was a device that he and
[Harvey Karman] were working on that was supposed to be plastic –
basically plastic razors that were formed into a ball. All right. They
were coated into a gel, so that they would remain closed. These would be
inserted into the woman’s uterus. And after several hours of body
temperature, it would then – the gel would melt and these 97 things
would spring open, supposedly cutting up the fetus, and the fetus would
be expelled.
Kermit Gosnell, in reference to the large size of one of the babies he aborted:
“This baby is going to walk me home!”
Source: NRLC News
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