bret: was kermit gosnell a courageous crusader who helped women exercise their reproductive rights or an incompetent unethical doctor who found a niche providing apportions to poor desperate women with no where else to turn? that was the place to go for your are abortions and you can go without your parents consent and if you got pregnant again within two or three months you could go right back. you were going there to take care of business, to handle the situation. bret: taisha hudson says she learnd that when she got pregnant at 17 back in the 1990s. she didn t immediately decide to get an abortion but when her mother found out she convinced her. that was the answer was to terminate the pregnancy.
and they prepped me, no counseling or anything. bret: as soon as the per are began, hudson knew the clinic had done her no favors. i literally felt like a part of my insides like ripped. i remember just asking him like do i supposed to be in this much pain? i felt like something was like ripping like literally like ripping inside of me. that is like torture. bret: dr. manny alvarez is a a respected og-gyn and a member of the fox news medical a-team. people were given the option of paying for how much pain-free status they wanted to be in. imagine taking your appendix without anesthesia or telling somebody that we will take your appendix but how much anesthesia are you willing to pay for? bret: and there was other cause for alarm. in the mid 90s, a pediatrician who practiced nearby notice
bret: she took more time to research her options. she said most clinics told her that an abortion at her stage would be too painful to endure without anesthesia. if you are past that 12 weeks you could not get an abortion without the anesthesia and with the anesthesia it cost more money. so the clinic where dr. gosnell was at said you did not have to worry about that. you can be over a certain amount of weeks and still get the abortion done. bret: then hudson had to come up with gosnell s $350 fee. by the time she got it she worried she was so far along that even gosnell s clinic would make her buy anesthesia. it didn t. they did the sonogram and he was like you about are a little over 12 weeks. i was like that was like almost 18 weeks.