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Abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s fate now in hands of jury

Assistant District Attorney Ed Cameron

By Dave Andrusko Assistant District Attorney Ed Cameron The judge in the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell gave last minute instructions this morning to the jury of seven women and five men before it was to begin deliberations in

Obama, PPFA, and “Kermit Gosnell’s Pro-Choice Enablers”

Melinda Henneberger

By Dave Andrusko Today is working out to be the time I hand out kudos. Over at “Debunking the Myth that Gosnell was an ‘outlier,’” I heap praise on two great columns written by Kristen Powers for USA Today. They

Debunking the Myth that Gosnell was an “outlier”

Kristen Powers

By Dave Andrusko It would be difficult to overstate the impact of Kristen Powers’ April 11 column bemoaning the absence of coverage of the Kermit Gosnell murder trial. This is not to say that once “We’ve forgotten what belongs on

Kermit Gosnell and NARAL’s Revisionist History

NARAL President Ilyse Hogue and MSNBC's Thomas Roberts

By Dave Andrusko As NRL News Today has discussed at length, pro-abortionists have tried to turn a scorching indictment of the Abortion Industry—Kermit Gosnell’s murder trial—into a black mark against pro-lifers. In that convoluted logic so dear to their too-small

Gosnell’s attorney paints abortionist as victim of “elitist, racist prosecution”

Jack McMahon, Kermit Gosnell's attorney

By Dave Andrusko Kermit Gosnell’s defense attorney laid out his case for acquittal on five counts of murder Monday morning but the specifics were telegraphed as far back as the trial’s opening statements six weeks ago. According to Jack McMahon,

The Gosnell story and its lessons

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadephia

Editor’s note. This is the weekly column of Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia dated April 26. Some stories, no matter how unsettling, just can’t be ignored — even when some people are determined to look away. The murder trial of

GMA Devotes 109 Minutes to Other Trials, But Not One Second for Gosnell Horrors

Gosnellcensored

By Scott Whitlock Editor’s note. This analysis appeared at mrc.org. Forty two days ago, on March 18, 2013, abortionist Kermit Gosnell went on trial, charged with the grisly murder of multiple babies and a patient. Yet, in the seven weeks

Kermit Gosnell Grand Jury Excerpts: “Had the prosecutor asked an investigator to call Ms. Haynes, he would have learned what inspector Gillespie did a few months later – that in Ms. Haynes’s case, Gosnell had locked her family members out of the clinic, preventing them from discovering that she was bleeding profusely after a bungled procedure and from summoning help. He would also have learned that Gosnell was violating the Abortion Control Act.”

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By Dave Andrusko Testimony ended last week in the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell and the jury is scheduled to hear closing arguments today. In this excerpt from the 261-page Grand Jury report, we again read the extent to

Judge dismisses three counts of murder against abortionist Kermit Gosnell; jury will decide other five counts of murder and other allegations

Judge Jeffrey Minehart

By Dave Andrusko Without explanation Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart this morning threw out three of the eight murder charges against abortionist Kermit Gosnell. However, Gosnell, 72, still is in  the dock on four counts of first degree murders in

Kermit Gosnell Grand Jury Excerpts: “Darlene Augustine testified that she was instructed by senior attorneys for DOH, Kenneth Brody and James Steele, that she should not reveal anything about Karnamaya Mongar’s death to law enforcement when she accompanied them on the raid in February 2010.’”

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Assuring safety at abortion clinics has been a low priority for Pennsylvania’s Department of Health for decades. No one from DOH [Department of Health] was able to tell us who decided to exclude abortion clinics from meaningful oversight that would