Gosnell Receives Three Life Sentences in Abortion Case

Gosnell receives three life sentences in abortion case - Washington Times

Dr. Kermit P. Gosnell

Dr. Kermit P. Gosnell, an abortionist, was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder of three infants, as well as the manslaughter of Karnamaya Mongar.  On Tuesday, Gosnell agreed not to appeal the verdicts in exchange for not having to face the death penalty.  The sentences are also punishment for 229 violations of Pennsylvania abortion regulations.  The 72 year old abortion was sentenced for 2.5 to 5 years in prison for the 2009 overdose death of one of his patients. 

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams stated, "I will not mince words.  Kermit Gosnell is a monster.  Any doctor who cuts into the necks, severing the spinal chords of living, breathing babies who would survive without proper medical attention, is a murderer and a monster."  I would go a step further and call any so-called doctor who would use surgical techniques to snuff out the life of an unborn baby as a monster and a murder.  Regardless whether or not an unborn child could be viable outside the mother's womb doesn't make an abortion any less of a murder.  Even if the unborn child wouldn't be viable outside the mother's womb that still would be murder in God's eyes.  Once a child is conceived, that is a human being.  That's another life inside the mother's womb.  There's nothing so tragic as murdering a child inside the mother's womb.  Abortion is just as wrong in God's eyes as infanticide is.  There's no difference.  Taking a baby's life is just as dastardly when it's not able to live outside the mother's womb as it is when the child is born.  Murder is murder.

Gosnell faces another trial in federal court on charges that he was running an illegal prescription drug operation outside his abortion clinic.  That trial is set to begin in September.