of the spinal cord and she was asked did you have any aware eps that this was murder and she awareness that that was murder and she told the jury i only do what i m told to do and what i was told to do was snip their neck. this is some of the most horrifying testimony i have ever sat through in a courtroom. i m wondering how the jurors will ever be able to get this out of their head. the photos blown up. big full term almost essentially babies and you see life there. gosnell s lawyer jack mcmahon tried to undermine the prosecution case count by count. he painted some witnesses as disgruntled employees and suggested the prosecution used threats of the death penalty and long protesters i so prisot clinic workers to plead guilty to crimes they didn t commit.
the clinic. he was inducing labor. and he was having these women deliver babies and deliver fetuses. the witnesses testified the means by which the babies lives were taken wasn t a traditional type of abortion procedure. they were drugged up, birth would be induced and once the baby left the mother s body taking its first breath at that point that is who you this doctor elected to kill these babies. he had a process that he referred to as snipping. that the children would be born alive and that they would then take scissors and place them at the base of the skull and snip or sever the spinal cord of the children that were born alive. this is a very, very painful thing. and some of these babies did not die immediately. those aren t botched abortions, that is homicide. and the reason he was doing
something that would cause great pain. there was only one thing the medical examiner testified out of this beautiful baby boy you saw you there in the photo and it was the slit to the back of the neck and the testimony was that scissors were put through and perforated through that area to cut the spinal cord and kill the baby. bret: based on the grand jury report not all of the killing was done by gosnell himself. cross testified she witnessed linda williams another unlicensed gosnell assistant murder a baby, baby c who had been breathing and moving for 20 minutes. williams called cross over to take a look at the baby and when ms. cross was asked why do you think ms. williams killed this baby that was alive, that was breathing that was moving for 20 minutes she said i guess because she had seen dr. gosnell do it so many times. bret: some deliveries did not happen on an operating
the issue of abortion h head on. he told the jury are you are not here to decide whether or not abortion is pretty. it is not pretty. it is bloody. it is real. in a way it was almost like the jack nicholson in a few good men. the prosecution pain stakingly went through its case against gosnell, more than 250 counts one more time. the jury deliberated ten days. monday, may 13. murder in the first-degree baby a, guilty. murder in the fidel, baby c, guilty. murder in the first-degree of baby d, guilty. bret: also found guilty of 2 counts of late term abortions. one count of racketeering and 211 counts of failing to counsel patients a day in advance in accordance with pennsylvania law.
and he couldn t snip babies necks any more so gosnell tried injecting a drawing called digoxin into the fetus heart to kill in in the womb but gosnell couldn t do it cite cross testify. he tried to do the need until the stomach and that was supposed to have killed the baby before the baby came out. if it didn t he will say oh, well, the law says that i can do it, i can still slit the neck because it didn t work, the needle didn t work. according to cross and others the needle never worked. so, the grand jury found gosnell stops trying it all together and reverted to his old system of killing babies after they were born. i think there is a lot of evidence here that it didn t matter to this doctor one bit whether he killed the fetus inside the womb or outside the