Pa. abortion doctor's murder trial goes to jury
Source: Twin Cities.Com
A Philadelphia jury began weighing murder charges Tuesday in the trial of a doctor charged with killing four viable babies who were born alive, part of what authorities describe as a routine practice at his clinic of illegal, late-term abortions.
According to prosecutors, Gosnell routinely cut live babies in the back of the neck to sever their spines because he did not know how to do a proper abortion in utero.
Gosnell is also charged in the 2009 death of a woman patient who was given anesthesia and monitored by two troubled medical assistants and a teenager. By that point, state officials had not inspected Gosnell's clinic since the early 1990s, prosecutors said.
"When people (who are) supposed to regulate these folks don't do it right, that's what happens," Assistant District Attorney Ed Cameron told jurors in closing arguments Monday. "Back alley abortions. Coat hanger abortions. That's what happens."
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