feces. infestation. medical waste bags strewn everywhere in the clinic and found a refrigerator where the employees kept their lunch that also had bags filled with fetal remains. they found jar after jar after jar filled with fetal remains and specifically severed feet in jars. it just completely overwhelming. you don t know how to process something like that. bret: in 2009, at age 16, desiree manning went to the abortion clinic. she learned just this year that he had cut off the foot of her child and saved it. hawkins also learned that gosnell lied to her about the age of her baby. he said she was far less than 21 weeks. i was actually 21 weeks and tour days and already considered the best possibility that there is a possibility that he snipped my
americans know what happened they will support policies that will give poor women more access to better abortion services. no one is defending what he did or his practices or conduct. but. bret: but gosnell lawyers would offer a defense of what they say their client really did in his clinic and the jury would hear it during the trial s closing argument. the media would hear it, too. for it is worth noting that when jack mcmahon gosnell s defense lawyer stood up to speak the press section of the courtroom was packed. fox news editor at large peter boyer was there. gosnell s attorney asserted, once again, it was an elitist and racist prosecution. he said that h his client had been singled out because he was an african american providing abortion services in an urban community. bret: he reminded the jurors of the weakness in the prosecution case and addressed
i haven t seen a great deal of the publicity because i lived through negative publicity before. bret: gosnell insisted he was innocent of any crimes. in you are not making mess takes you are not really attempting to do something. i think that my patients are aware that i do my very best. it was as if he was saying that is my job, you know, i m in charge of killing these babies, that is why they he came to me. bret: nine of gosnell s employees were also charged. three pleaded guilty of assorted crimes. sherry west pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the death of karamaya mongar. three others pleaded guilty to the deaths of babies born alive. steven masoff admitted to
performing them, even though he was never certified as an obstetrician or gynecologist. kermit gosnell was a failed physician. dr. mark siegel of the fox medical a team. he didn t make it through a residency. what do i do? you find a role and if it works for are you, you keep doing it. bret: it worked. before the 70s were over he opened the women s medical society at 38th street and lancaster avenue in west philadelphia complete with a silhouette of a couple swinging a child between them. the communities around the clinic loved dr. gosnell and they said he was a resented upstanding member of their community and was known for his reputation in the community. documentarian jen thompson made a short film about gosnell
baby e is a baby that one of the witnesses testified that she saw in the procedure room. she heard the baby whining making crying noises. when the doctor came out of the room the baby was dead. she saw the baby thrown in the trash like garbage by dr. gosnell. masoff testified he slit the necks of babies. baby g is the last murder victim named by the grand jury but the panel believes gosnell killed many more babies outside the sight of his compliant staff. we know that dr. gosnell would perform the latest of late term abortions on sundays when none of his other staff members were present. omero honly he and his wife woe into the clinic so we really have no way of accurately