Posted on 11/04/2011 5:14:55 AM PDT by Pinkbell
An unlicensed doctor pleaded guilty on Thursday to third-degree murder in the deaths of two late-term babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors at a filthy Philadelphia abortion clinic.
Steven Massof, 49, of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder, murder conspiracy and other charges.
Massof testified to a grand jury that he snipped the spines of more than 100 babies after seeing them breathe, move or show other signs of life.
"Severing the spinal cords of moving, breathing babies outside their mothers' wombs was, according to Massof, 'standard procedure,'" the grand jury report centered on Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic charged.
"Gosnell encouraged his staff to kill babies born alive; Lynda Williams, Adrienne Moton and Steven Massof all followed his barbaric example," said the nearly 300-page report, issued in January.
Gosnell, 70, is charged with killing seven babies and a woman who died after a botched abortion at his Women's Medical Center. He has pleaded not guilty.
The jaw-dropping grand jury report described filthy, inhumane conditions at the clinic, which served many poor and immigrant women.
Massof is the fourth of 10 defendants to plead guilty in the case.
Moton, a medical assistant, pleaded guilty last week to third-degree murder in the 41-year-old patient's death from an overdose of anesthesia that she helped administer. Medical technician Sherry West pleaded guilty the same day to third-degree murder in a newborn's death.
Massof's plea involved two babies allegedly stabbed by Gosnell while Massof assisted with the abortion. A foreign medical school graduate without a license, he worked for Gosnell for a few hundred dollars a week.
"Massof testified that Gosnell taught him and showed the scissors-in-the-neck technique to 'ensure fetal demise.' Gosnell's students parroted his grisly techniques," the grand jury report said.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Gosnell, the only licensed doctor at the clinic, typically did not arrive until late at night to perform abortions, leaving untrained, unlicensed staff to give anesthesia, monitor patients and perform other skilled care, prosecutors charged. State regulators did not inspect the clinic for years, according to the grand jury.
Safe, legal, and rare. Yep.
Ping!
Every now and then, there is a rip in the curtain of our earthly existence that opens a window straight to hell. This is one of those.
It's not our society it's our legal system.
Anyone that is involved in this kind of murder, ought to be shot {after a trial, I'm not advocating taking the law into your own hands}.
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Plea bargaining with that scum? Why in the world!
There is not even a place in hell for those subhumans.
May the good Lord bless all those who have so unfortunately passed.
RIP
What do you want to bet that the so called “doctor” doesn’t get a slap on the wrist at sentencing?! We can’t send a message and scare off abortion people, can we?!! The one statement that I remember VIVIDLY from this case is that the staff would “play” with the babies while waiting for the doctor to walk in, jam some scissors in its neck so he or she would die. I have had nightmares over this case simply because it is inhuman, barbaric, sociopathic and just plan EVIL. I will say this: justice will be served to Gosnell and his staff of demonic minions one way or the other. If it isn’t here on earth.... it will be rendered by God.
These people are the targets of the abortion movement. I'm not surprised to read about stuff like this. I don't feel sorry for the woman. They're killers, too, but the poor infants....
Imagine what those beautiful new babies went through. To the left, doing this to a new born baby is a beautiful choice. The more dead babies - the better.
Oh, come on--IT'S JUST A CHOICE!
These people make me want to puke. How could you DO this kind of horrific thing? I'm getting queasy just reading about it.
It's jaw-dropping that it's filthy...and it serves POOR IMMIGRANT WOMEN!!!!
It's like complaining that there isn't silverware and china in a concentration camp.
So get a student loan and an education, then you can go back to work as a real murderer doctor.
Are they still going for the Death Penalty for Gosnell?
the heck with Lethal Injection. Lets just ram some kitchen shears into the base of his skull.
You have a way with words, graphically and insightfully correct. Kudos.
From my understanding... you can only go after the death penalty with a first degree murder charge. This is third degree so maybe he’ll do a little time in prison. Let’s say this... he’ll do less time in prison than he will do in hell.
Exactly what I was going to say.
Next.....
What, pray tell, is an “unlicensed doctor”?? Either one has a license and is, therefore, allowed to refer to oneself as “doctor” or one does NOT have a license and is NOT allowed to refer to oneself thusly. There is not, to my knowledge, any such animal as an “unlicensed doctor”.
What he is is a MURDERER - no license required.
Maybe if they were gay babies Brian Williams would have found them worth mentioning.
When friends tell me they are pro-choice I ask - “so have you SEEN an Abortion?”
The answer is always “no,” but these folks are defiant. They know in their heart of hearts that the sort of evil described in this story is in fact fairly common procedure.
Watch one, my friend. There are plenty of videos on Youtube.
I have turned a few hearts by describing the little babies as they wince when the scissors start to break their little bodies apart... But only a few. “Choice” people are defiant, and blind, and miseducate themselves on purpose.
Abortion is the NUMBER ONE issue in America today. It has everything to do with everything.
Evil is alive and well and one can almost imagine Satan himself watching the dumpsters fill with the sliced-up remains of little baby boys and girls and knowing HE IS WINNING THE WAR for America and for our souls.
Is it any wonder Barack Hussein OPPOSED Jill Stanek’s Born Alive Infants Protection Act?
That’s right. Except for the License. BHO is in favor of this.
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