This is why this abortionist is on trial for murder

This is not just "human tissue".

This is A BABY GIRL, and he killed her.

These are the first three paragraphs of a story published 24 hours ago on the website of the Atlantic Monthly, which still prints and mails out a monthly magazine (I have a subscription).

Note: The links in the following paragraphs were in the original article.

The grand jury report in the case of Kermit Gosnell, 72, is among the most horrifying I've read. "This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy - and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors," it states. "The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels - and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths."

Charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, Gosnell is now standing trial in a Philadelphia courtroom. An NBC affiliate's coverage includes testimony as grisly as you'd expect. "An unlicensed medical school graduate delivered graphic testimony about the chaos at a Philadelphia clinic where he helped perform late-term abortions," the channel reports. "Stephen Massof described how he snipped the spinal cords of babies, calling it, 'literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body.' He testified that at times, when women were given medicine to speed up their deliveries, 'it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place.'"

One former employee described hearing a baby screaming after it was delivered during an abortion procedure. "I can't describe it. It sounded like a little alien," she testified. Said the Philadelphia Inquirer in its coverage, "Prosecutors have cited the dozens of jars of severed baby feet as an example of Gosnell's idiosyncratic and illegal practice of providing abortions for cash to poor women pregnant longer than the 24-week cutoff for legal abortions in Pennsylvania."

The babies he killed are all in heaven, because they're all innocent of any human crimes.

If Kermit Gosnel, who killed them, wants to join them there, he had better start spending a lot of time begging God to forgive him.



This is a link to a PDF-format 281-page Grand Jury report on this case.

Dated updates

April 18, 2013

The last prosecution witness told the jury that he saw, as an eyewitness, ten babies breathing before Kermit Gosnel killed them.  Oh by the way, some third-trimester abortions are permitted under the "Roe vs. Wade" Supreme Court ruling.  Any baby that breathes is a baby that has a right to life.  If those parents don't want that baby, there are millions of married couples who would love to be given that baby because they can't have babies of their own.

June 22, 2016

These are the first five paragraphs of a May 13, 2013 New York Times story.

PHILADELPHIA — A doctor who was responsible for cutting the spines of babies after botched abortions was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder in a case that became a sharp rallying cry for anti-abortion activists.

The doctor, Kermit Gosnell, 72, operated a clinic in West Philadelphia catering to poor women that prosecutors called a “house of horrors.”

The case turned on whether the late-term pregnancies Dr. Gosnell terminated resulted in live births. His lawyer, Jack McMahon, argued that because Dr. Gosnell injected a drug in utero to stop the heart, the deliveries were stillbirths, and movements that witnesses testified to observing — a jerked arm, a cry, swimming motions — were mere spasms.

But after deliberating 10 days, the jury found Dr. Gosnell guilty in the deaths of victims known as Baby A, Baby C and Baby D. He was found not guilty of murdering Baby E.

Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty when the trial moves into the sentencing phase next Tuesday.

February 21, 2017

These are the first four paragraphs of a Daily Mail (U.K.) story dated today.  The link in the first paragraph was in their story.

Superstar Will Smith was brought into this world by the most notorious abortion doctor in America, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.

And now Kermit Gosnell, who is serving life in prison for running a horrific clinic, is trying to make contact with the Collateral Beauty actor in a bid to get him to take up his case.

‘I’m fond of asserting that there could never be a Men in Black if I had dropped you on your head,’ Gosnell, now 76, wrote in a letter he sent to Smith, a copy of which has been provided to DailyMail.com.

Father-of-six Gosnell was convicted in 2013 of the murder of three babies who were born alive and the involuntary manslaughter of a patient who died during a botched abortion. He agreed to a sentence of life without parole if prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.

September 8, 2017

Today, I added these two videos and the text below them.

Animated video of development in the womb

Still photos captured by Lennart Nillson

Here's a review of this movie on the Hot Air website.

October 13, 2018

A movie has been made about these crimes. Link to their IMDb page.  The first video is the announcement from the producers. The second video is the official trailer for the PG-13 movie, which is in movie theaters for a limited run this weekend.


The Hot Air website has reviewed the movie.  After an introduction that covers the making of the movie and the personal views of the reviewer, these are the first two paragraphs of the review.

Gosnell has a number of things going for it right off the bat, and the film takes advantage of them all.  The story is already horrific, dramatic, suspenseful, and provocative.  Rather than fall into the bad practice of applying “style” or intrusive camera techniques, director Nick Searcy plays it straight and lets the story tell itself more organically.  The cast is solid and delivers realistic portrayals without chewing scenery and distracting from the story.  Searcy himself probably has the most fun, playing the role of defense attorney in courtroom scenes, but that works because the others are playing their roles without overdoing it, especially Sarah Jane Morris as Lexy McGuire as the assistant DA whose pro-choice views get a serious challenge in her work on this case.  AlonZo “Zo” Rachel, a longtime favorite in the blogosphere and on social media, does a very good job in the supporting role of Detective Stark, the partner to Dean Cain’s lead role of Detective James Wood, which Cain pulls off well.

However, the best performances in the film come out of the clinic itself.  The clinic employees who testify in the courtroom scenes don’t get a lot of screen time but they are tremendously effective as the trial builds to its climax.  Dominique Deon as Betty Goodwin stands out in a critical role, setting up the jury’s decision and the conclusion of the trial.  Janine Turner (Northern Exposure) has an intriguing cameo as a abortion-clinic medical director called as a trial witness by the prosecution to differentiate Gosnell’s actions from other abortion clinics, a small part of the film’s repeated message that the prosecution wasn’t focused on fighting abortion — just murder.

"Janine Turner (Northern Exposure) has an intriguing cameo as a abortion-clinic medical director called as a trial witness by the prosecution to differentiate Gosnell’s actions from other abortion clinics, a small part of the film’s repeated message that the prosecutor wasn't focused on fighting abortion - just murder."

The prosecutor was fighting murder, not abortion.

The Lennart Nilsson Award

The Lennart Nilsson Award Foundation was established in 1998 in recognition of the world-renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson and his extraordinary body of work.  It's main aim is to promote education, training and research within the medical, biological and engineering sciences through the use of images.  This is achieved through the Lennart Nilsson Award, an international award bestowed annually upon an individual in recognition of outstanding contributions within the realm of scientific photography.  Award recipients are people who work in the spirit of Lennart Nilsson, revealing science to the world in beautiful, unique and powerful ways.


About Lennart Nilsson

Born in Strängas, Sweden, on August 24, 1922, Lennart Nilsson began his career as a freelance photojournalist. His work spans more than seven decades, beginning in the early 1940s when modern photojournalism made its breakthrough in Sweden.

His early photographic essays, including A Midwife in Lapland (1945), Polar Bear Hunting in Spitzbergen (1947), Congo (1948) and Sweden in Profile (1954) gained international attention through publication in leading photojournalism magazines such as Life, Picture Post and Illustrated. In the 1950s, Nilsson began experimenting with new photographic techniques including macro- and microphotography, which led to the books, Ants (Myror) and Life in the Sea (Liv i hav).

In the 1960s, the use of specially designed, ultra-slim endoscopes made it possible for Nilsson to capture on film the inner workings of blood vessels and various cavities of the human body. The book A Child is Born (Ett barn blir till) first published in 1965 is undoubtedly Nilsson’s most famous work.

In the 1970s, Nilsson began to use the scanning electron microscope to capture images of the inner workings of the human body. This shift in the focus of his work gave Nilsson the opportunity to work on the premises of Karolinska Institute.

What remains remarkable is the combination of his unending patience to fully explore his subjects, combined with a journalist’s eye, artist’s sense of form and colour, and technician’s inventive skills to maximize available light and capture spectacular images.

In 1976 Lennart Nilsson was awarded an honorary doctorate at Karolinska Institutet. In 2009 he was given the title Professor’s name by the Swedish Government and in 2012 he was awarded the Karolinska Institutet Jubilee Medal (Gold class) for his long-standing and groundbreaking contributions to the development and innovative advancement of medical photography.

Link to the source of this text, on the website of the Karolinska Institutet, a Swedish medical university.

Lennart Nilsson passed away in January 2017.  His obituary in:

The New York Times

The Washington Post

Time Magazine's annual survey of photographers who had died that year