Kermit Gosnell butchered women and babies for decades. The anti-abortion movement weaponised his horrorshttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kermit-gosnell-dr-abortion-clinic-story-b2346073.htmlAs well as the voices of women like Robyn, something else was also lost from the story of Gosnell’s “house of horrors”: the irony that what he did was already illegal.
... Gosnell knew what he was doing was wrong, but didn’t care.
And, disturbingly, it appears that authorities also knew at least in part what was going on as well.
Over the years, several complaints had been made about Gosnell and the clinic’s reputation as an “abortion mill” had become the worst kept secret in the city – and yet Gosnell continued to work unchecked for decades.
When Gosnell’s clinic – and what went on inside – became national news in 2010, one of the biggest questions asked was, how he had gotten away with it?
The findings of the grand jury report revealed a disturbing lack of enforcement and willingness to turn a blind eye by multiple government agencies.
Pennsylvania’s Department of Health, which was responsible for auditing the clinic, had information which should have led to its shutdown but it failed to act, the grand jury found.
In 1993, the agency had stopped carrying out inspections at abortion clinics – a move the grand jury report blamed on “political reasons” when the pro-choice Republican Governor Tom Ridge took office.
Yet, even though the inspections stopped, the alarm was still raised through several complaints sent to the department from other medical centres, from lawyers representing women, and even from an insurance company representing the 22-year-old victim who died on his operating table.
The grand jury report outlines one principle reason for why the issues were ignored time and again.
“Bureaucratic inertia is not exactly news. We understand that. But we think this was something more,” it reads.
“We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion.”
This quote is from a bit past the middle of the largely anti-Pro-Life article. Maybe "How he had gotten away with it?" was a question to mildly Pro-Abortion people, but not to Pro-Life people, and probably not to strongly Pro-Abortion people. An operation that egregious doing its horrors that long could only have stayed in business courtesy of gooberment "health" officials willfully refusing to investigate the guy. Whatever the precise mix of racism, economic elitism, and Pro-Abortion views, "health" officials acting on their Pro-Abortion views were a significant reason Gosnell continued as long as he did (and would have continued longer, but for the prescription drug investigation and raid).
