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Abortion Doc Charged with 8 Murders; 9 Clinic Workers in Custody, 4 Also Face Murder Charges
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jan 19, 2011 07:50pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Martha Neil |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 08:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A physician whose medical license was suspended after a raid last year on his Philadelphia abortion clinic has been charged with 8 counts of murder.
Nine of the untrained workers at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's now-shuttered clinic are also in custody, and prosecutors say four clinic employees face murder charges, too, reports the Associated Press.
District Attorney Seth Williams, who announced the charges today, described Gosnell's Women's Medical Society as a "house of horrors" where low-income, minority and immigrant women were treated in squalid conditions and viable infants born after labor was induced in late-term abortions were killed by severing their spinal cords with scissors, the news agency reports.
Of the eight murder counts against Gosnell, 69, seven concern babies and the eighth concerns a woman patient who allegedly died of cardiac arrest after being given too much Demerol, the article says. |
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