This will be the face of abortion,

[catsittingstill]

if the In Sorrow Shalt Thou Bring Forth Children crowd gets their way.

This way to the back-alley hack performing illegal abortions.

Keep abortion safe and legal.

[Later edit--one of my readers had trouble with my link.  Here is CNN's story on the incident.]

Comments

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

I'm still considering the possibility that some of this evidence was trumped up by a hyperconservative prosecutor with an agenda. After all, this is how half the Fox "news" crowd would escribe *any* clinic where abortions are performed, no matter how clean and competently run.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Trumped up evidence was my first thought... but the matter of patients dying or having to go to the emergency room didn't strike me as something that would be easy to trump up.

Also, apparently Gosnell is not a board-certified ob/gyn (which I would have thought belonged in the first or second paragraph but instead is buried halfway down the CNN article.) He is also suspected of prescribing painkillers for patients he has never seen, which doesn't seem in keeping with a normal abortion provider to me.

I'm sure people intent on enforcing sexual purity on women would describe *any* women's health center this way, but even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.