Determining beyond a reasonable doubt how many children met their demise as a result of these sunday late term abortions. bret: despite gosnell s alleged steps to avoid detection, it is hard to believe that sooner or later his enterprise would not be found out. but it took 31 years and not for the reason you would think. that story, when we return.
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.
Something troubling. 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 being inserted from one woman to the next and therefore the possibility of infection was uncontrollable. bret: pennsylvania health officials received this complaint and dozens of others through the decades. complaints filed by patients gosnell harmed because again the prosecutors say no state inspectors set foot in his clinic for years. if state officials had done their job, would have young mother of two, her name shamika shaw, still be alive? according to the grand jury report shaw died dow you 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
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
Department of state prosecutor saying prosecution not war bret: but the word about gosnell was getting out prosecutors say and that was hurting his business. he could not get the referrals. he didn t get many first trimester patients any more so he changed his model by going with the more expensive late term and illegal abortions. many people knew along the atlantic seaboard if you could not get a late-term abortion anywhere else you could go to the women s medical society run by dr. gosnell and if you could pay you could get a late-term abortion. bret: even if you are more than 24 weeks pregnant. though those abortions are illegal in pennsylvania and many other states. legal or not, dr. manny alvarez says late-term abortions are are complicated and dangerous. many things can go wrong.