COMMENTARY: THE GOSNELL STORY AND ITS LESSONS

The murder trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell will soon go to jury. And like every other criminally accused person under the law, Gosnell is innocent until proven guilty. Whatever the verdict though, there\’s no ambiguity about the kind of business he ran at his West Philadelphia \”Women\’s Medical Center\” – an abortion clinic that critics have likened to a meatpacking plant or a butcher shop, with unborn children delivered into a toilet, and jars of fetal body parts stored around the facility.