CBS Highlights Story of Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Charged with Murder
On Wednesday the CBS Evening News gave attention to the story of an abortion doctor in Philadelphia whose practices were so horrific that he is being charged with murder. Anchor Katie Couric set up the piece:
Now, this next story comes with a strong word of caution. The details are gruesome. You won't want young children to watch. A Philadelphia doctor who made millions performing late-term abortions was charged today with murder. The D.A. says the doctor killed seven babies after they were delivered alive.
Below is a complete transcript of the report, filed by correspondent Elaine Quijano, from the Wednesday, January 19, CBS Evening News :
KATIE COURIC: Now, this next story comes with a strong word of caution. The details are gruesome. You won't want young children to watch. A Philadelphia doctor who made millions performing late-term abortions was charged today with murder. The D.A. says the doctor killed seven babies after they were delivered alive. More now from Elaine Quijano.
ELAINE QUIJANO: It has been described as a house of horrors, this West Philadelphia abortion clinic where 69-year-old Dr. Kermit Gosnell operated for more than 30 years.
SETH WILLIAMS, PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY: The children were born and then killed - killed by putting scissors in the back of their neck and snipping their spinal cord.
QUIJANO: The adult victim, prosecutors say, was 41-year-old Carnamaya Mongar, who died in 2009 after receiving an overdose of anesthesia. The nearly 300-page investigative report says paramedics who arrived at the clinic found her lifeless and said, "Gosnell was just standing there, not doing anything." Photos from inside the clinic, visited mostly by minority and immigrant women, show unsanitary, squalid conditions with jars and bags of aborted fetuses.
WILLIAMS: There were fetal remains in the same exact refrigerator that the employees had their lunch in that day.
QUIJANO: Authorities say Gosnell has been named in 46 lawsuits, but that his clinic had not been inspected by state officials since 1993. None of the employees had any medical training. Nine, including his wife, have also been arrested.
WILLIAMS: He even employed a university city high school student as an anesthesiologist.
QUIJANO: The district attorney says the doctor used unsterilized instruments, infecting patients with venereal disease and often punctured uteruses and intestines.
WILLIAMS: The grand jury went to the scene wearing hazmat suits. It was filthy.
QUIJANO: In an interview last year with CBS affiliate KYW, Gosnell defended his 30-year practice.
DR. KERMIT GOSNELL, ACCUSED OF MURDER: I know that I have done my very best to provide the very best of responsive care to my patients.
QUIJANO: But this former patient told KYW last year she endured a botched procedure by Gosnell and will never forget his words to her afterwards.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: "Wake up, wake up. I need to you put your clothes on. I have an ambulance waiting for you outside. I did something to you, and I don’t know what I did."
QUIJANO: Now, investigators say most patients were sedated and had no idea their babies were born alive. Dr. Gosnell is now in police custody. Prosecutors have not ruled out seeking the death penalty. Katie?
COURIC: And, Elaine, how could this clinic operate for so long without being investigated?
QUIJANO: Basically, it was only discovered relatively recently. Last year, police conducted a drug raid essentially investigating unrelated drug charges at this clinic. It was then that those state, local, and federal police agents saw these discarded, these bags, rather, containing what prosecutors say were discarded fetuses, and they notified the local prosecutors.
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Just another day
Submitted by MBart on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 1:50am.
at the office for these washed up, no good, low-lifes of the medical field.
something's very wrong
Submitted by mrskorn on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 1:56am.
It is amazing that teachers are held more accountable than this kind of doctor. Something wrong with this picture?!
Thank God abortion is legal
Submitted by ant on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 1:59am.
Thank God abortion is legal otherwise these women would have to go to filthy back alleys and quacks to get one. sarc.
Amazing isn't it. I bet the
Submitted by Thoreau on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 5:45am.
Amazing isn't it. I bet the babies aren't born "alive" now either. Whatever that means. It's ok to kill them where you can't see them, but as soon as they're outside- whew- that's just sick and demented. Oh, and apparently murder. Huh?
Either it's legal to slice through the spinal cord of a fetus or it ain't. Make up your mind liberal satan worshipping degenerates. Try to mask your insanity with at least some BS.
So do take note future Obamacare MD's. As long as nobody saw you cut the head off or let it die in a closet, it's just good medicine. And that's liberal murder you can believe in.
Oh, by the way. In case you're wondering if you're still a MD when you perform abortions- have a look at those barbaric Romans and Greeks and that "Hippocratic Oath" thing:
"I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.
But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts."
But, as your friends will tell you, killing unwanted children is a kindness. Why let them suffer when you can make your life easier by ending theirs.
How did that guy get into
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:10am.
How did that guy get into medical school?
How did this guy. . .
Submitted by rick.bren on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:41am.
graduate from medical school?
Spun
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:13am.
Wonder how this story of killing will get spun
All I can say is that for the
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:15am.
All I can say is that for the first time in about 5 years I literally feel weak and sick from what I just read about this mans alleged crimes. Extremely disturbing, to the point of making me absolutely nauseous. Last time I felt like this I was watching a Nazi war-crime documentary.
This is just a setup for Obamacare
Submitted by JakeMo on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 5:10am.
"Wonder how this story of killing will get spun."
First, it will be spun that this never would have happened if poor women weren't forced to go to this "Dr" because they couldn't get good affordable care anywhere else. Solution: Federally funded abortions. Who stands in the way? Republicans.
Second, it will be spun that this "Dr" is motivated by the rhetoric of the right that encourages the medical profession to reap big profits off of human misery. Who's to blame? Republicans.
(Note: Remember the first rule of Obamacare rhetoric: doctors are evil and greedy. They cut off feet and do unnecessary tonsillectomies for profit. The only way a greedy evil doctor can redeem him/herself is by performing the highest holy sacrament in the Church of Progressivism: abortion.)
GOOD POINT. Katie will use
Submitted by kg on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 5:20am.
GOOD POINT. Katie will use this shortly when there is an attempt to remove taxpayer funding for abortions.
Tiller the Baby killer never got this kind of press. He had many of the same results as this so called Dr had yet it was covered up by the media. When Kansas wanted to charge Tiller former KS govenor Katheen Sebelius did all she could to block the charges.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Yeah, that "affordable"
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:34pm.
canard. This sicko charged $1,600-$3,000 for late-term "procedures". Cash.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Whoa here baby.. I thought they said nobody did late term..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:30am.
Whoa here baby.. I thought they [MSM] said nobody did late term abortions.
Couric: ... A Philadelphia doctor who made millions performing late-term abortions was charged today with murder.
(;~/ gary
An unborn child is not just a tumor to get rid of - it's a human being.
Precisely
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:40am.
Couric's comment, (written for her by somebody who thought they were using clever wording), is meaningless and full of ambiguity. The same thing could have been said about this guy if he murdered his wife. "Abortionist charged with murder!"
Couric also could have said: "A Philadelphia doctor who drove a Buick was charged today with murder!"
If they wanted Couric to be clear, she should have said "A Philadelphia doctor who made millions performing late-term abortions was charged with murdering babies after the babies were born." But she can't say that, because that brings up the thought process of why or why not is it murder if it's one minute before or one minute after birth. And CBS doesn't want there viewers doing too much thinking.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
And the problem is?
Submitted by DaveInNM on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:49am.
If this "doctor" had simply stuck those scissors in the back of the baby's skull and vaccuumed his brains out before full delivery, he wouldn't have been a hero to the left for saving the mother's life. That's what... less than a five minute difference in when the babies were killed!
Oh, and wait... It was horrible that this guy killed the babies by snipping their spinal cords with a pair of scissors, but if he rips them into pieces inside the womb, then it's the mother's civil rights being protected?
And then we have the pro-abortion crowds constant screech that abortions are safe, (except for the baby, of course,) and we can't have women having control of their body's violated, (but apparently they're unable to control them BEFORE having unprotected sex,)
I WISH I could turn my thoughts into the preztel twists the left is able to in order to justify their support for so many societally destructive policies. Unfortunately, that pesky thing called logic always gets in the way.
Born Alive!
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:15am.
Exactly what I was about to say.
It's amazing what difference a few minutes make to the liberal mind, isn't it?
I suppose if the doctor had simply allowed the baby to die, as in the "Born Alive" case in Chicago, all would have been well too.
Of course that kind of question requires wisdom beyond my pay scale.
Baby Killer
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:01am.
Isn't this the same procedure that earned George Tiller -- also known as Joan Walsh's hero -- his infamous nickname?
I will be doing a lot of praying and asking for forgiveness tonight.
May those poor innocent angels rest peacefully in the arms of the Lord tonight and for eternity.
I am only surprised that CBS,
Submitted by Captain Repus on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:08am.
I am only surprised that CBS, and especially Kouric even ran this story. After all, those pesky little clumps of skin and bone aren't real people now are they, and the the women have a constitutional right to get rid of them inside or outside the womb, right?
Sorry, pretty tasteless post but this story is sick.
Joseph Mengele
Submitted by AgentAmerican on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:09am.
Joseph Mengele lives.
This rat bastard would have been employed at Auschwitz. Kermit Gosnell would have made Adolf Eichmann proud.
Just proves that true-evil
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:17am.
Just proves that true-evil really does exist. Only difference between this man and guys like Mengele is that Mengele had more opportunity to practice his sickness.
Somehow this degenerate slipped through the medical admissions board.
Gateway Pundit has remarked
Submitted by ant on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 5:37pm.
Gateway Pundit has remarked that Margaret Sanger probably would have delighted in the irony of a black man making millions while contributing to the ethnic cleansing of his own people. I don't doubt that myself.
You have to be pretty cold,
Submitted by Martin2717 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:21am.
You have to be pretty cold, heartless and evil to do something like this. Just thinking about this makes me ill. Say good night, Doc.
I question his "evil".
Submitted by ajkrik on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 5:46pm.
If someone is evil, they're evil in essence. There's no lesson in it.
But, I find it more disturbing that a once compassionate physician (assuming he was) could become so out of touch with the beauty of life that it is just more meat to chop up. THAT is frightening.
It scares me that people can become so detached from their actions.
And the left
Submitted by MBart on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:41am.
wonders why abortionists get shot. I even heard some of they say on comment boards that the guy should get the death penalty!
The Bottom of the Barrel
Submitted by Pharmer on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 4:23am.
Abortion practice attracts the dregs...... those who would not be considered competent in areas of actual medicine gravitate to this field.
Unfortunately abortion practice has also infected the Ob-Gyn specialties so that their numbers of competent physicians are falling. It is worst in locations where abortion is expected of these practitioners.
What competent medical practitioner wants to do abortions?
http://www.washingtonpost.c
Submitted by jdhawk on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 4:42am.
I am flummoxed. What exactly did the "doctor" do wrong?
Here is the stance of duhbama on this subject according to a Washington Post article: "Obama's record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion -- a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called "too close to infanticide." Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" because of a crisis pregnancy -- hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102197.html
Beside, the doctor was only practicing his hypocrite oath . . . .
Do you know that as of 2006, only one medical school in the United States has students pledge the original Hippocratic Oath which among other things states that a physician should, "do no harm," Like our Constitution, it's a living document!
JD: This is what I was
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 1:34pm.
JD:
This is what I was going to post. Obama was and probably still is in favor of letting babies who survive abortion left to die in a sink or a closet out of sight. The depravity of Obama's position and Gosnell handiwork need to be tethered indelibly in American's minds. These two are branches from the same tree of modern Liberalism (actually Marxism/Communism), though Obama would never align himself on the shit end of the same stick. He's an "activist" afterall, used to getting others to do the dirty work.
I am unaware how many schools recite the Hippocratic Oath, or a version of it. Mine voted on three different oaths and decided on Lasagna's version because of the sexist, anti-abortion, and anti-euthanasia positions in the original Hippocratic Oath.
There was at least one classmate of mine whose parent did abortions. The man was repected in his field (OB-GYN) and, in my recollection and understanding, felt performing abortions was required in his duty as physician. The family was very Liberal, probably what is known as Progressive now.
Funny, I just recalled that the above mentioned classmate was one of those involved in the group promoting the vote on the oath to recite at graduation. Not surprising, she did not like the Hippocratic Oath.
Gov of Hawaii Miraculously Finds a Handwritten Birth Certificate
Submitted by im41 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 4:54am.
Gov of Hawaii Miraculously Finds a Handwritten Birth Certificate of Obama
From out of nowhere, the Gov. of Hawaii claims he found an archived handwritten birth certificate of Obama.
http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2011/01/gov-of-hawaii-mirac...
That was really stupid
Submitted by goldwaterfan on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 5:04am.
Are you one of those birther idiots, or is this just a joke?
Amanda Carrington
No, he's just a regular
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 7:45am.
No, he's just a regular idiot.
TILLER LIVES!
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 5:29am.
Wow. I AM shocked.
Couric... A NETWORK news anchor ...used the term BABY instead of the correct proborters' term FETUS.
Surely Katie is was a FETUS that was born alive?
Ms Couric do try harder. We do need to keep to the dehumanizing terminology, so people don't feel GUILTY over what they do. Self-esteem is so important.
Did you know that there are some proborter fanatics that think there is a RIGHT to kill a month old BABY... sorry EXTERNALLY LIVING FETUS... if the parents decide they don't want it.,
Not kidding.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
I've always wanted
Submitted by panzerakc on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 10:26am.
to ask a pro-abortionist, especially one of the extremists, "What would you say to a grieving woman who miscarried a wanted child?"
Buck up, it was just a blob of tissue?
I suppose if they were a really sensitive type, they'd comfort her in her grief by pointing out that now there was one less human to inflict their carbon footprint on the already over-burdened Mother Gaia.
Them being all empathetic and stuff.
The PRINCE OF ABORTION is in the White House ...
Submitted by Jayke on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 6:45am.
... and I'm sure this abortonist felt he was providing a needed community service. Especially after reading about "DEAR LEADER'S" opposition to the Born Alive Act as an IL Senator. Oh, and later BHO had the audacity to attack a born alive survivor named Gianna Jessen. Remember that?
Former PP director releasing a book.
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:08am.
It's no less violent inside the uterus.
Abbey Johnson, former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, tells of the day she realized that, decided to quit PP, and subsequently became a pro-life advocate.
Here is the first chapter of her book : unPLANNED
Warning: it's graphic, and disturbing.
How does it feel Katie?
Submitted by richb313 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:37am.
By your own logic you are partially responsible for the conditions in this clinic. Your constant insistence of free and easy access to abortions led to the conditions that allowed this type of clinic to exist. This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg I can assure you.
Yeah, who knows what kind of
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 9:22am.
Yeah, who knows what kind of squalid, back-alley setup these poor women would have to resort to if this clinic wasn't there!!
Tumor Removal Centers
Submitted by morristhewise on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:37am.
Most women righteously think of an unwanted pregnancy as a tumor that has to be removed, but like most problems some wait until the last minute to have them solved. It would make a woman's tumor problem easier to solve if abortion clinics were renamed Tumor Removal Centers (TRC) with 24/7 services.
Unsanitary, Squalid Conditions, Oh the horror!
Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:58am.
This report mentioned and another report I heard stressed that the conditions of this clinic were very unsanitary. It was almost as if, if the conditions were sanitary, it wouldn't be so bad. Guess then it would be your normal sanitary late term abortion clinic.
What is very sad is that this is a probably normal part of life for many poor inner city women. This is probably not an uncommon clinic. It is the one that got publicity.
Doctor's Defense
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:52am.
The pro-abortion left is going to have to figure out a way to get this doctor out of the news. I have no doubt that this doctor, after years of performing late term abortions, came to the conclusion that it was easier for the doctor to kill the baby one minute after it was born, as opposed to killing the baby one minute before it was born. This is going to be his defense when he goes to trial, and pro-abortionists get pretty uncomfortable with this sort of logic. It makes too many people actually think about the hypocrisy of late term aborions.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
A Philadelphia doctor who
Submitted by HypocriteHater on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 10:54am.
A Philadelphia doctor who made millions performing late-term abortions was charged today with murder.
When I think of how many babies he had to kill to make his millions, it makes my absolutely sick. As someone who recently experience a miscarriage of a WANTED baby, it makes me cry to think of these poor defenseless babies being killed when they should be protected and nutured by their mothers.
Patronizing Katie
Submitted by ajkrik on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:42pm.
She says: You won't want young children to watch.
Thanks Katie, but I DO want my child to watch and know there are people out there who murder children. I DO want my child to understand that a fetus is a human being and that people "choose" to kill hundreds of thousands of them each year.
Otherwise she'll only hear about "a blob of cells" and "my right to choice" from her mother. I believe she may well choose someday, but I want it to be an informed choice at least.
This man...
Submitted by uhohshortsonthe... on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 4:28am.
...is at best an incompetent, uncaring "doctor." At worst he is evil incarnate. What kind of medical practitioner, namely one who witnessed first hand as an African-American the civil rights movement, can compel himself to kill black, latino, etc, babies?