Abortion Doctor: 8 Counts of Murder, 7 Babies Killed With Scissors in Philadelphia

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Dr. Kermit Gosnell forced Davida Johnson to continue with her abortion after she had a change of heart. His torture chamber, complete with bloodstained recliners, became a temporary prison for the woman as the doctor smacked her when she said, "I don't want to do this." Johnson's hands and arms were tied down, and more medication was pumped into her to sedate her.

Believing the rhetoric by leftists on television, no doubt, Davida Johnson shied away from the local Planned Parenthood facility in downtown Philadelphia because she feared the pro-life protesters. Therefore, she wound up at Gosnell's West Philadelphia clinic, assured that there would be no protesters there.

She paid the doctor $400 cash.

Months after the abortion procedure, she began to have gynecological problems, that included venereal disease, and four subsequent miscarriages.

Philadelphia prosecutors have revealed that they believe Gosnell frequently delivered late-term babies alive at his clinic, then severed their spines with scissors, and often stored the fetal bodies — along with staff lunches — in refrigerators at the squalid facility. Tiny baby feet, prosecutors said, were discovered in specimen jars, lined up in a macabre collection.

Wondering if Gosnell had done the same to her own dead babies, Johnson asked, "Did he do that to mine? Did he stab him in the neck?" Johnson was reviled by the news.

Gosnell was charged last week with killing seven babies born alive and with the 2009 death of a 41-year-old refugee after a botched abortion at the clinic. Gosnell's office netted him at least $1.8 million a year, much of it in cash, where he slaughtered uncounted hundreds more babies.

A report of the grand jury that investigated Gosnell indicates: "(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."

Murder charges regarding those late-term abortions, however, are only being brought on the cases where the babies were born alive.

The report also revealed files that were falsified or removed and possibly destroyed by Gosnell and his staff.

"His entire practice showed nothing but a callous disdain for the lives of his patients," said the nearly 300-page grand jury report.

The Pennsylvania state health and medical regulators had a number of opportunities to shut Gosnell down over the years but ignored complaint after complaint about filthy conditions and illegal operations, also failing to inspect the clinic despite the complaints.

Gosnell said he did not understand why he was being charged with eight counts of murder.

"I understand the one count, because a patient died, but I didn't understand the seven counts," he told a magistrate.

What that means is to him, these babies were not lives, but simply throw-away lumps of human flesh. This is what abortion has brought to our culture. Death is now nothing more than a medical procedure performed by murderous doctors that think it no different than working on an assembly line at a slaughter house.

God help us.

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