Posted on 04/11/2013 12:47:40 PM PDT by Morgana
A young woman who worked at Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic as a teenager testified today in court that she saw a baby’s chest move even after the gruesome snipping procedure he used to end their lives.
That a 15-year-old girl was employed at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania abortion clinic is problematic enough, Ashley Baldwin testified Thursday in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell that even his horrific “snipping” procedure for killing babies in abortions/infanticides didn’t necessarily end their lives.
From the AP story:
Baldwin said she learned to do intravenous injections as a high school student and assisted with abortions.
Her mother, Tina, also worked at the chaotic street-corner clinic in West Philadelphia. She has pleaded guilty to corruption of a minor for letting her daughter work at what prosecutors call a corrupt organization.
Ashley Baldwin, who is now in her early 20s and the mother of a toddler, said she saw a baby described at trial as “Baby A” in a hallway.
“The chest was moving,” she testified Thursday.
The baby was so large that worker Adrienne Moton took a cellphone picture of it. Prosecution experts, based on the picture, say the baby was well past 24 weeks, the legal limit for abortion in Pennsylvania.
The baby’s mother, then a teenager, has also testified about the difficult, three-day abortion process.
Prosecutors say they have physical evidence, based on autopsies, that two babies took a breath, and eyewitness accounts that five others were born alive and then killed with scissors.
Gosnell’s defense lawyer, Jack McMahon, claims none of the babies were born alive but were dead before birth due to a lethal drug injection and that Gosnell and his staff “snipped” their necks after “birth.” McMahon claims no babies were ever killed in the gruesome abortion process, which involved “snipping” the spinal cords of the children by jabbing medical scissors into the backs of their necks, because the babies were supposedly already dead.
That’s not what two staffers for Gosnell admitted in court — with one saying she heard a baby scream and another saying the baby “jumped” when the newborn was stabbed in the neck with the scissors.
McMahon is attempting to get the jury to buy a story that Gosnell used a drug called Digoxin to kill the baby in utero and then to deliver a dead child. He claims Gosnell just wanted to “snip” the spinal cords to ensure the baby was dead already. The Gosnell staffer admitted that’s what the abortion practitioner told her he was doing.
Although the defense attorney claimed the babies were dead and that jabbing them in the neck with scissors was needed to make sure that was the case, Gosnell staffers also told the court one at least two occasions that the babies were not dead when their necks were stabbed.
However expert witnesses testified there was no medical reason for Gosnell to cut the spines of aborted fetuses.
Determining if the children were alive or dead at the time their spinal cords were “snipped” is crucial to prosecuting Gosnell and his staff.
Gosnell faces 43 criminal counts, including eight counts of murder in the death of one patient, Karnamaya Monger, and seven newborn infants. Additional charges include conspiracy, drug delivery resulting in death, infanticide, corruption of minors, evidence tampering, theft by deception, abuse of corpse, and corruption. Gosnell could face the death penalty if convicted and he faces a mandatory minimum 20 years.
The trial of the abortion practitioner has been so gruesome and vivid in its accounts of the late-term and live-birth abortions that it has shocked the conscience of the nation, despite a relative lack of media coverage outside of local media and conservative and pro-life news outlets.
Gosnell, whose squalid “house of horrors” abortion clinic has surprised even investigative officials, has had almost flippant attitude toward his macabre abortion practices shocked the nation.
“The Gosnell case is a watershed moment for the issue of abortion,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation. “The discovery of his horrific practices helped shed light on an abortion industry that has run amok without oversight or accountability for decades, and has prompted significant changes in abortion laws and attitudes toward enforcement in several states.”
Previously, Gosnell’s wife Pearl pleaded guilty to assisting her husband at his Philadelphia abortion center where he killed a woman in a botched abortion and has killed hundreds of babies in abortion-infanticides.
Pearl Gosnell was considering a plea deal similar to the one several of Gosnell’s former abortion center employees have made where they have pleaded guilty to receive a lesser sentence in exchange for testifying against Gosnell. Pearl also worked at the abortion center Gosnell ran that had him kill and injure women in failed abortions and kill perhaps hundreds of babies in grisly infanticides by birthing them and “snipping” their spinal cords.
She worked at the Women’s Medical Society abortion business her husband ran as a full-time medical assistant from 1982 until she married Kermit Gosnell in 1990, when she switched to only working on Sundays. At that time, the abortion business was officially closed but would do its latest-term abortions possible.
The grand jury report indicates Pearl Gosnell testified that she alone helped Kermit do abortions on Sundays when she would “help do the instruments” in the operating room despite no medical training.
Previously, Judge Lerner ruled two other former employees, Eileen O’Neill and Madeline Joe, are not allowed to have their cases separated from that of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Neither O’Neill nor Joe are charged with killing babies in infanticides and, although their attorneys argued the horrifying allegations against Gosnell could unfairly taint their cases, they were not allowed to plead guilty in deals as was the case with six other former employees.
The murder charges also came in connection with the botched abortion death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, who died at Gosnell’s abortion clinic after a failed abortion. Mongar died November 20, 2009, after overdosing on anesthetics prescribed by the doctor. Mongar’s family filed a lawsuit against Gosnell’s abortion business seeking damages.
Gosnell and several staffers at his abortion center, including Pearl, were arrested in January after a grand jury indicted them on multiple charges after officials raided his abortion business following a woman’s death and discovered a “shop of horrors” filled with bags of bodies and body parts of deceased unborn children and babies killed in infanticides. Pearl Gosnell, Kermit’s 49-year-old wife who has no medical license, faces a charge of providing an abortion at 24 or more weeks and conspiracy and other charges.
Gosnell has been denied bail while the case against him moves forward. Women have spoken out about their treatment and one woman says she was drugged and tied up and forced to have an abortion.
Authorities searching the facility last year found bags and bottles holding aborted babies scattered around the building, jars containing babies’ severed feet lining a shelf, as well as filthy, unsanitary furniture and equipment.
The grand jury investigation also shows state officials did nothing when reports came in about problems at Gosnell’s abortion center, which has upset incoming pro-life Governor Tom Corbett.
Gosnell’s abortion center was inspected only after a federal drug raid in 2010. It was the first time the facility had been inspected in 17 years because state officials ignored complaints and failed to visit Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society for years.
The abortion industry has been forced to suspend two abortion businesses that employed embattled abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell, who has been the subject of national controversy over his abortion business in Philadelphia.
Following revelations that Gosnell is associated with two other abortion centers in Louisiana and Delaware, the National Abortion Federation made the decision to suspend the memberships of both. Atlantic Women’s Medical Services, the Delaware abortion business that employed Gosnell one day a week to do abortions, and the Delta Clinic abortion center of Baton Rouge, have both had their memberships suspended. Leroy Brinkley owns both abortion businesses. Atlantic operates abortion centers in Wilmington and Dover.
Is there a jury with this trial? How are they not fainting and throwing up every day? Poor people.
I’m pretty sure they will need a shrink or a stay at a nervous hospital by the time this is over.
All the while the feminazis support this. Also the guy in the white house.
This so-called “doctor” and the media people who avoid covering this story should all be publicly whipped bloody.
There’s no way his claim that these babies were dead before the “snipping” can stand. It’d be wayyyy to easy to prove otherwise with a simple autopsy.
I, too, am wondering about the jury. Aren’t they shell shocked? And how did this POS even find a lawyer to represent him??? I’m afraid I couldn’t get near that courtroom.....I’d be afraid of catching some spiritual sickness. I’d be hauling a bottle of holy water, Benedictine crucifix, and my brown scapular with me. What a pack of looney toons these people are.
In past stories I have read of them crying. I have been posting these since the beginning and will keep posting till he is sent to the big house.
Operation Rescue is the group in the court room and reporting all of this to the rest of the world. They are spending their time telling the details of the crimes done and not the jury’s reaction.
I have such sympathy for them. Strong people to take on this case. I wouldn’t have the guts.
Aw, you lovely old school Catholic, you are! My scapular hangs around my bedstand. Bless you!
The jury was, and I mean was 12 pro choice people.
They won’t be when it’s all over.
I hope so, Morgana. Do you have a ping list? I’d like to be on it if you do. (Morgana: one of my favorite names!)
Haha! I don’t take mine off except to bathe. It rubs a raw spot on me when I run because I won’t be without it!! ;-)
Of course the media won’ cover this!
They don’t care about mass murderers unless they can pin the blame on guns and/or political dissidents. Serial killers are also usually just entertainment.
Baby-killing is just fine if Obama gives the ok.
Bless you, sir or madam! As I get older, I am definitely returning to our beloved church.
You obviously don't know many lawyers, especially trial lawyers, or ever had to deal with one on the other side of the room, now have you? Just look to Goeffrey Fieger who defended Jack Kevorkian for all those years. First, it is about the money and if the issue is just too unpalatable, they will take it for the fame, which goes back to money. Then some just like to be on the short side of an argument and call it altruistic.
That’s what I was wondering. I’m sure they defense did their best to get “pro-choice” people on the jury. Statistically, several of them most likely even have had abortions themselves before.
I’d love to hear their thoughts on abortion after this.
Then again, in the liberal mind “it’s a horror because these things happened outside the womb. Inside the womb, it is just an unfeeling, unthinking tumor. Seconds from leaving the womb, all the properties we think of babies magically appear”
A young woman who worked at Kermit Gosnell’s Murder Clinic
Fixed it!!
Isn’t there a line in the hippocratic oath something about “First do no harm”?
These “doctors”should lose their licenses.
Of course the so called president took an oath also which he’s violated repeatedly so I guess it’s OK.
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