Through in a courtroom. kimberly guilfoyle is a former sex crimes prosecutor. i wonder the how they would get that out of their head. the photos blown up of the big full term almost essentially babe yos and you see life there. bret: gosnell s lawyer tried to undermine the prosecution s case count by count. he painted some witnesses as disgruntled employees and suggested the prosecution used threats of the death penalty and long prison terms to get clinic workers to plead guilty to crimes they didn t commit. he said all of the babies gosnell is charged with killing were already best or at best doomed because he had injected them with a drug to stop their hearts and he scored his biggest point during the testimony about baby boy b. a baby the prosecution alleges who was born alive at 28 weeks and then killed by gosnell and placed in his freezer. the defense attorney
In the grab jury report. she told the court that she had snipped the spines of ten babies who had been born alive. she did these things and was asked was that murder, did you consider it wrong? and she he said, you know, at first i didn t. bret: the testimony captured for boyer what the german philosopher anna errant talking about the holocaust called the bonality of evil. there was another employee who gave testimony, a young woman named linda williams and she talked about the snipping of the spinal cord and was asked did you have any awareness that this was murder and she told the jury i only do what i m told to do. what i was told to do was snip their neck. this was some of the most horrifying testimony i have sat
Options.other high pressure most told her it would be too painful to endure without anesthesia. if you are past the 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 could be over a certain amount of weeks and still get the abortion done. bret: then hudson haded 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 thesonogram and he was like you are a little over 12 weeks and i kind of was like a little over in my head like that was like almost 18 weeks and they prepped me, no counseling or anything.
Pontario. he had seen young girls and women who had gone to the clinic come back with venereal diseases. dr. gosnell was reusing the instruments. the bloody instruments were passed from one to the next. the possibility of infection was uncontrollable. bret: pennsylvania health officials received this complaint and dozens of others through the decades. complaints feeled by patients gosnell harmed because again prosecutors say no state inspector set foot in his clinic for years. if state officials had done their job would a young mother of two, her name, shamika shah, still be alived. she died due to a botched late term abortion by gosnell in 2000. he basically cut her in pieces. her uterus was perforated. part of the placenta was left in her womb. he butchered her.
You just don t know how to process something like that. bret: at age 16, december manning went to gosnell s abortion clinic in 2009. 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 23 weeks and four days. i already considered that there is a possibility that he snipped my kid. the grand jury found that investigators recovered the remains of 45 fetu fetuses ande admitted to a detective that 10% to 20% were probably older than 24 weeksion the legal cutoff. baby boy b was one of two the prosecution claims were medically firmed to have been viable. they also found women, dazed women. they were almost stuporous.