By: Gwen Furmanek
Assistant Opinion Editor
If you have a weak stomach, hold on tight because a monstrous doctor has committed an atrocity of unspeakable depths.
Kermit Gosnell, a 72-year-old Philadelphia doctor, is being charged with four possible first-degree murder charges for the deaths of four infants, according to an April 24 CNN story.
In Pennsylvania, unless the health of the mother is at stake, the legal limit is 24 weeks to do an abortion, according to the same article.
He allegedly performed this crime on infants of an estimated 30 weeks’ gestation in some cases, according to an April 24 Huffington Post article. Babies have fingernails, hair and visible toenails by this stage in the pregnancy.
Gosnell allegedly administrated the drug digoxin, which can cause death of the fetus, before he proceeded with the abortions, according to the same article. Sadly, in some cases this drug allegedly didn’t take. There have been numerous testimonies from former staff members of Gosnell’s saying they habitually saw aborted babies breathe, move or whine, according to an April 24 CBS News article.
In response, Jack McMahon, Gosnell’s lawyer stated, “These are not the movements of a live child,” according to an April 24th Huffington Post article. Really? Babies move. They breathe like all other humans.
How can a person with any sort of conscience harm a baby who could fit into the palm of their hand? These poor babies didn’t ask for any of the monstorous acts that were forced on them in their little time spent on Earth. What did they do to possibly deserve such dispicable tortures? Nothing whatsoever.
Gosnell allegedly snipped the spines and throats of some of the fetuses he aborted, according to the CBS News article.
These are babies. They are human beings who can’t defend themselves and haven’t gotten the chance to live yet. Performing these late-pregnancy abortions is a vile, inexcusable act, and Gosnell should be charged in accordance with the monstrosities he has committed.
Gosnell’s West Philadelphia Clinic is described as “a house of horrors” by CBS News. Sounding like something from “The Munsters” gone wrong, his furniture and equipment is described as being “bloodstained, dusty and broken,” according to CNN.
When patients walk into any sort of health facility, it should be sanitary. It should not make you want to scream in terror or cringe in disgust just from walking in.
In this mockery of an abortion clinic, the remains of 47 aborted fetuses were discovered stored in pet food containers, water jugs and a freezer, according to CNN.
This demented monster of a doctor lined his shelves with the severed feet of infants. What is wrong with this person, if you could even call him that? Was he keeping body parts of babies he has killed as trophies? He sounds more like a creature of the night than a human being.
Gosnell is also being charged with a third-degree murder of Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old woman from Virginia who “died of an anesthetic overdose during a second-trimester abortion,” according to CNN.
So not only is he a murderer of too far along babies, he is such a terrible “doctor” that he kills his adult patients as well. He is a disgrace to the profession. This so-called “doctor” should have had his medical license revoked years ago.
In the words of Dr. Seuss, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
