Philadelphia Dr. Kermit Gosnell was charged on Jan. 19 with murder after allegedly delivering seven babies and then killing them by severing their spinal cords with scissors.
MSNBC says that Gosnell's clinic ran from 1979 to 2010, and during that time, hundreds of babies lost their lives there.
The Associated Press says former Gov. Ed Rendell says he is "flabbergasted" by regulators' inadequate inspection of Gosnell's Philadelphia abortion clinic.Numerous complaints were filed throughout those years about the unsanitary conditions of the clinic, forced abortions, underage abortions, deaths and delivering full-term babies and then killing them, according to the MSNBC story.
In an ABC News article, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said, "There were bags, and bottles holding aborted fetuses were scattered throughout the building. There were jars lining shelves with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose." And according to Williams, state regulators ignored numerous complaints about Gosnell's clinic, which hadn't been inspected since 1993.
Last year, Gosnell agreed to a video interview with Fox News where he claimed, "I provide the kind of care that I would want my daughter to receive." He also said, "I've done the very best to provide the very best to my patients," but many of his patients have disagreed.
A Fox News story says that Gosnell has been named in at least 10 malpractice suits.
Gosnell's abortions also were allegedly illegal. According to myfoxphilly.com, he charged $32 for first trimester abortions and $1,600 to $3,000 for abortions up to 30 weeks, but abortions in Pennsylvania are illegal after 24 weeks, and many doctors won't perform them after 20 weeks.
According to AOL News Gosnell is accused of killing one woman and seven babies who were born alive and then killed by Gosnell at the Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia. Gosnell's employees were untrained and unlicensed, and nine of those employees have also been charged.
Along with the issue of abortion, other topics have been brought up in the discussion, including health inspectors not adequately doing their job and the fact that most of the people who chose Gosnell's clinic were poor.
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