"The monster speaks" – reporter interviews jailed abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell

[The Straight Story]

"The monster speaks" – reporter interviews jailed abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell

An abortion provider from Philadelphia is spending life in prison following his first-degree murder conviction in the death of three babies.

Kermit Gosnell was called a monster for what he did, and how he did it – ending the lives of fetuses past the legal limit in Pennsylvania.

But who he is, why he did what he did, and how he got away with it for so long, remains a mystery.

"There was a lot of conjecture about what motivated Gosnell and people said he was greedy, crazy, he is a monster. I think that at bottom, he was a true believer in abortion rights," said reporter Steve Volk, the only journalist Gosnell has spoken with while in prison.


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A key moment of Volk's story comes when he realizes while talking to Gosnell that he considers fetuses that have been removed and are still alive to be essentially dead because they have no hope for survival.

"He talked to me about this concept he called 'fatal blighting,'" said Volk. Gosnell would inject the fetus with a certain drug intended to stop its heart.

http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/25/the-monster-speaks-reporter-interviews-jailed-abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnell/

[Brickbat]

1. I think Volk is wrong.

To me, "abortion rights" are about women. I see little to indicate that what Gosnell did was to help women. Maybe it did in his mind, but when I compare it to how Dr. Tiller did his work, the difference becomes clear.