Jury convicts abortion provider Kermit Gosnell of murder

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Washington Post

PHILADELPHIA — Abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder for severing the spinal cords of infants born during abortions at his West Philadelphia clinic.

The trial now moves into a sentencing phase to decide whether Gosnell should receive the death penalty or face life in prison.

The verdicts were announced hours after the jurors informed the judge in the case that they were hung on two charges. . .

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/jury-in-kermit-gosnell-trial-hung-on-two-charges/2013/05/13/b4444bdc-bbda-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html?hpid=z1

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Abortion should remain safe and LEGAL. Gosnell broke the law, and if women aren't offered legal choice, you will see more of his ilk.

[Archae]

1. Rush the Fathead said "us liberals" wanted him to get off...

[caraher]

2. Of course

Because he wants his listeners to associate "liberals" with butchers like Gosnell. It's all about invoking reactions of disgust, not logic.

[uppityperson]

3. Good. Now go after those who were supposed to inspect and shut him down but didn't.

[leftyohiolib]

4. who's that ? he's solely responsible for his acts

[uppityperson]

5. When he got arrested, there was some info that he'd failed inspections and should've been

shut down but the (state? county?) did not.

[ehrnst]

6. Philadelphia Department of Public Health had been warned about him, but did nothing

Warnings--from patients and their attorneys, a doctor at a Philadelphia hospital, women's health groups, pro-choice groups, and even an employee of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health--failed to prompt state and local authorities to investigate or take action against the clinic.

The officials could have shut him down.

[Hekate]

8. State and County Departments of Health, for starters. State Medical Board that holds his license.

That sonovabitch was a known butcher. Women became septic from his "care" -- any hospital that admitted such sick women should have known the cause and reported it.

Any health care clinic is subject to inspection. If I take my child to Urgent Care, Immedicenter, or the like, I should be assured that the facilities are sanitary, that the instruments are sterile, and that the practitioners are duly licensed and competent.

I live in the suburbs. If I lived in the inner city, why should I have to resort to a "clinic" that is filthy and more likely to kill than cure?

Likewise for anyone seeking medical care for any reason, including abortion. Gosnell's victims were poor and ignorant, and believed they had nowhere else to go. It IS the responsibility of the Department of Health to keep an eye on medical practitioners and their facilities.

The negligence of the authorities was criminal. Gosnell should have been shut down many years ago.

[Turborama]

13. 1993 was the last inspection, according to a report I saw on CNN earlier

I'll try and find a link when I get on my laptop....

[Redford]

7. Good

He was a monster.

[840high]

9. Good. He is

a monster not a doctor.

[blackspade]

10. What a sick fuck.

[Swamp Lover]

11. The anti-choice Rushbots see a woman on the pill, and this butcher Gosnell as equally guilty.

Actually, hell holes like Gosnell's "clinic" is what laws protecting a woman's rights are trying to protect against.

[Pterodactyl]

12. Good. Gosnell is a monster.