Analyst: Abortion-murder defense options few

Either victim of 'right-wing conspiracy' - or 'same as every other clinic'

PHILADELPHIA – One analyst says there are few options for the defense attorney in the Philadelphia abortion-murder trial for Kermit Gosnell.

There is the conspiracy option, the persecution complex. And they could just say that everything Gosnell did to babies is just like what other abortion clinics do.

That's according to Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, who has been following the trial since the beginning of the prosecution weeks ago. The defense for Gosnell on eight counts of murder was supposed to start today, because it was delayed until tomorrow.

The abortionist is accused of letting one woman die during an abortion, and killing seven babies who were born alive, but died at his hands when he snipped their spinal cords with a scissors.

Gosnell is being defended by attorney Jack McMahon.

But Newman said given the testimony from former business employees who verified the babies were born alive, then killed, there's not much wiggle room.

"I think the only defense these guys have is that it's the vast right wing conspiracy, or that Gosnell's the victim of the anti-choice movement," Newman said. "Or, they can say that all Gosnell did was the same as every other abortion clinic."

The details revealed during the trial have left Americans following the charges horrified.

For example, clinic worker Ashley Baldwin said Gosnell snipped the neck of many babies who could have lived.

The details of another instance are recorded in the grand jury report.

One report: "The baby had precipitated (emerged from the mother) when the doctor was not in the clinic. Lynda Williams (another clinic staff member) placed the baby in a basin on the counter where the instruments were washed and called the doctor to come."

The details build: Baldwin heard an infant's cry, and saw the baby move on the country. Estimated the baby's length at 12 inches.

Gosnell arrived and all that soon stopped.

"He snipped the neck, and said there is nothing to worry about, and he suctioned it," came the testimony.

The report also records the procedure for what would happen to the babies who were born when Gosnell was not at the clinic.

If Gosnell was absent, his employees would kill viable babies. Ashley Baldwin saw Steve Massof slit the necks of babies that moved or breathed 'five or 10″ times. Massof, repeating what he had been taught by Gosnell, told her that that it was standard procedure to cut the spine in all cases.

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