Gosnell defense starts this
week after jury hears of Brutal infanticides
LifeNews.com – Cheryl Sullenger
– 4/22/2013
Former Gosnell employee
Kareema Cross testified calmly and sometimes defiantly under defense
questioning, of filthy conditions, reused medical equipment that spread
venereal diseases from one patient to another, rampant misuse of sedation by
poorly educated and unqualified employees, and the cold-hearted severing of
spinal cords of babies born alive after late-term abortions that were done well
past the legal limit in Pennsylvania.
Abortion by Pill
Lisa Dungee was a patient at
Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society in 2009. She saw unlicensed medical school
graduate Eileen O’Neill, who is also standing trial along with her former boss,
for an early non-surgical abortion. Dungee testified that she never received
counseling prior to her abortion. She admitted that she signed a form
indicating that she had been given informed consent 24 hours prior to the
abortion, but was adamant that she signed the forms on the same day her
abortion began.
“When I came in to the
facility, I already had my mind made up about what I wanted to do, so yes, I
signed it,” she testified.
Waiting Periods and Informed
Consent Violations
Lack adherence to waiting
periods and informed consent laws are common complaints of women receiving
abortions at clinics around the country. Operation Rescue has documented a
numerous of incidents of this kind in several states, including Louisiana, Texas, and a particularly harrowing incident in Michigan where a teen was tricked into an abortion when she
thought she was being seen for an obstetrical visit for a wanted pregnancy.
Authorities rarely
discipline or prosecute on violations of informed consent laws, so abortionists
have no incentive to abide by them. This is a problem that is rampant in the
abortion cartel.”
Unlicensed Practice of
Abortion
Dungee testified that she
thought O’Neill was a licensed physician because she wore a white coat and had
certificates on the wall of her office. No one ever told her that O’Neill held
no valid medical license.
According to Dungee, O’Neill
gave her one pill to take at the clinic and one pill to take later at home
along with a prescription for antibiotics. She said she never saw Gosnell at
the clinic, who should have been consulted before drugs were prescribed.
Dungee never returned to
O’Neill for her follow-up appointment due to the filthy conditions at the
clinic. Instead she saw her own physician for follow-up care. Dungee insisted
under oath that O’Neill nor anyone else from the clinic, called to see how she
was doing, even though O’Neill noted in the records that such a follow-up call
had been placed.
“The unlicensed practice of
medicine, unqualified staff, failure to provide follow-up care, and
falsification of medical records are accusations that are certainly not new to
the abortion industry,” said Newman. “We have piles of documentation on each of
these abuses.”
In 2009, Bertha Bugarin, owner of a chain of abortion clinics in Southern California pled guilty to illegal abortions and
practicing medicine without a license. She was doing abortions with no medical
background whatsoever, and hired abortionists who later suffered license
revocation. At least two of her abortionists had no medical license, and one of
which was a convicted sex offender with a history of raping and molesting
abortion patients.
At the time of her arrest,
Blanka Rubo of Planned Parenthood in San
Diego
Abortionists Resist Safety
Standards
Yet Planned Parenthood and
other abortion clinics balk at regulations that would hold abortion clinics to
minimum safety standards. In Kansas, where abortion abuses have been recorded that reach
Gosnell-like proportions, laws that would require abortion clinics to meet
safety standards have languished in court for three years, with no end in sight
while unsafe conditions continue, as documented by an Operation Rescue investigation.
In Virginia ,
protests broke out when clinic safety standards were under consideration even
though clinics in Virginia
“Abortion clinics that
aren’t required to meet minimum standards always sink to the lowest level,
whether was the pre-Roe back alley shops or those today on Main Street
Abortionist Don’t
Self-Report Illegal Acts
It is true that the vast
majority of abortion injuries, health violations, and unsafe practices go on
for years undetected, unreported, and if reported, unenforced.
“Abortionists who engage in
illegal activity or shoddy practices don’t report them,” said Newman. “That’s
why statistics on abortion safety so often quoted by abortion clinics and the
Center for Disease Control are unreliable. No one really knows the full scope
of horrors that take place every day in this country because most of what goes
on in abortion clinics is a carefully guarded secret.”
As for why more women do not
come forward and report abortion abuses, Newman also has insight.
“Women are reluctant to
report wrongdoing by their abortionists for a number of reasons,” he said.
“Some just want to move on. Some fear family members finding out what they did.
But perhaps the main reason
is that the complaint system is designed to discourage complaints. The process
is so onerous that most people are intimidated by it or just don’t understand
it, so they give up.
When complaints are filed,
it can take years to resolve because medical boards operate at a glacial pace.
There is great need for reform in the medical complaint process in every state,
but bureaucrats are reluctant to make the process easier because it means they
would have an increased workload in a time of budget cuts – or worse, they have
an interest in protecting abortionists from prosecution.”
Bizarre Defense Theory
Another point of interest in
Dungee’s testimony was introduced by O’Neill’s defense attorney, James
Berardinelli, who has thus far had few, if any, questions for prosecution
witnesses. Berardinelli insisted that since Dungee did not actually expel her
four-week baby until 24 hours after she took the first abortion pill, then the
24-hour waiting period had been observed.
“This bizarre theory turns
the intent of such laws on its head and shows gross ignorance about how
medication abortions work,” said Newman. “The first round pills actually block
hormones to trick the body into thinking it is no longer pregnant, and the
second round of pills induces contractions that expel the baby. The abortion
begins when the first pill is taken, and to say otherwise just isn’t true,”
said Newman. “It appears that misdirection and redefinition may be the only
defense O’Neill and Gosnell have.”
Defending the Indefensible
Most of the abortion
industry has backed away from Gosnell, and some have condemned his actions, but
the reality is that so many abortion clinics share aspects of Gosnell’s shoddy
practices that they may not want the spotlight to shine any further than the
walls of Gosnell’s West Philadelphia “House of
Horrors.” To do so would be to put the entire abortion cartel on trial in the
court of public opinion, where they are acutely aware they simply cannot win.
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