On Thursday, Ashley Baldwin and Linda Williams testified against Dr. Kermit Gosnell in a Philadelphia court room with gruesome details of abortions performed in his clinic.
When Ashley Baldwin was 15, she interned at the the Gosnell abortion clinic because she had thoughts of becoming a doctor. She was paid for her time there and even assisted with administering drugs and abortions. Baldwin, now 22, told the jury that she saw at least five aborted babies who were still alive, breathing, moving and screeching.
Reports say Gosnell regularly preformed third trimester abortions. Baldwin said one baby was so big that Gosnell joked that “this baby is going to walk me home.”
Gosnell is said to have trained his staff to cut the necks and spinal cords of the still living babies. Former employee Linda Williams says she saw the doctor cut the necks of over 30 babies.
Gosnell is being charged with seven counts of murder. He’s also being charged with one count of third degree murder for the death of a Virgina woman who died a day after receiving an abortion.
Gosnell, who has been sued over 46 times, is facing the death penalty. Williams could be sentenced to 100 years in prison. Baldwin hasn’t been charged with a crime.
The Atlantic reports a testimony from former employees:
“Like if a girl – the black population was – African population was big here. So he didn’t mind you medicating your African American girls, your Indian girl, but if you had a white girl from the suburbs, oh, you better not medicate her. You better wait until he go in and talk to her first. And one day I said something to him and he was like, that’s the way of the world. Huh?”
“If… a baby was about to come out, I would take the woman to the bathroom, they would sit on the toilet and basically the baby would fall out and it would be in the toilet and I would be rubbing her back and trying to calm her down for two, three, four hours until Dr. Gosnell comes.”
- theafrolounge.com
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