‘House of Horrors’ abortion doctor who performed ‘barbaric’ operations to go on trial over eight deaths
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- Dr Kermit Gosnell could face the death penalty over the deaths
- He is charged with murdering a pregnant woman, 41, and seven viable newborns at his medical clinic
- Patients were left with infections, perforated bowels and other injuries after the abortions done by untrained, unlicensed staff
An abortion doctor who performed ‘barbaric’ abortions at his medical centre will go on trial today over eight deaths including a pregnant refugee and seven viable newborns.
Dr Kermit Gosnell, 72, the clinic owner, could face the death penalty over charges he killed 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar and seven viable newborns at a West Philadelphia clinic in Pennsylvania. He also faces a separate federal trial on prescription drug charges.
Gosnell, who has pleaded not guilty, saw himself as a medical missionary in the blighted neighbourhood where he worked and lived for 40 years. His Women’s Medical Center treated the poor, immigrants, teens and women with late-stage pregnancies who could not get abortions elsewhere
Gosnell told the Philadelphia Daily News in a March 2010 interview, a month after the federal drug raid: ‘I feel in the long term I will be vindicated.
‘I aspire to perfection, certainly for my patients.’
But some of those patients were left with infections, perforated bowels and other injuries after barbaric abortions were performed by untrained, unlicensed staff, according to numerous lawsuits and a lengthy 2011 grand jury report.
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2013-03-15 01:20:56
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