On April 15, 2013 an article was publish on The Dallas Morning News about a disturbing case of abortion which turned out to really be MURDER. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, is on trial in Philadelphia for killing a woman and seven babies at his abortion clinic. Dr. Gosnell's employees said that he continuously offered abortions after 24 weeks. Which is illegal in the state of Pennsylvania, also along with him 8 out of 9 of his employees were convicted of third degree murder. If Gosnell is found guilty he will be receive the worst punishment possible.
This situation can be mistaken for many different actions, besides his intentions of the steady pay of these illegal actions, this is also a case of "medical malpractice" i'm sure he knew the implications of these procedures, but didn't think it would ever see the "light." I feel that this is mostly his fault, but also the department of heath should be held accountable and these patientsalso. The patients should know the rules and regulations on abortions in their state. It seems like he was try to also please his customers, but having killed 7 babies and a woman someone should have found out about this or even told before it reached that outrageous amount. The government should install a process you go through before getting an abortion which makes you submit your sonagram/pregnancy week stages that dictate whether you can get an abortion or not at the current time. This would limit and restrict this from happening again. In abortion clinics the department of health is suppose to check out the facility and make sure that its sanitary and subject for these type of procedures annually. His clinic had been checked once and got approval during the beginning of the situation which means they were either not checking carefully, or didn't care to check carefully. The government has to be aware of things like this, I feel like Dr.Gosnell should be held fully responsible for his actions and these illegal performances. At the same time the "DOH" should also be punished in some time a way for not checking the facility in 17 years, and allowing approval for employees to work and patients to be operated on in these types of environments.
"Outrage can be rightly focused from all sides on the frightening lack of oversight of Gosnell’s clinic, which was not inspected by state officials for 17 years. Gosnell’s case was finally brought to light not because someone was so appalled by the alleged brutality occurring inside his clinic, but because the FBI raided the pill mill he is accused of having operated next door.
The 2011 grand jury report that prompted these charges said: “Gosnell’s clinic — with its untrained staff, its unsanitary conditions and practices, its perilously lax anesthesia protocols, its willingness to perform late-term abortions for exorbitant amounts of cash, and its routine procedure of killing babies after they were delivered by their unconscious mothers — offers a telling example of how horrendous a Pennsylvania facility can be and still operate with DOH ‘approval.’"- Dallas News
