Dr. Alveda King’s Perspective: Gosnell Must Answer for ‘House of Horrors’
By Dr. Alveda King
Director, African American Outreach
The
atrocities that took place at the West Philadelphia Women’s Medical
Society by late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell should never have
occurred.
I sat in a packed Philadelphia courtroom on Tuesday as three of
eight murder charges were thrown out against Gosnell, whose clinic was
described as a squalid "house of horrors."
The judge hearing the case — Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart —
apparently did not believe based on the evidence presented that three
of the babies Gosnell was charged with murdering were viable — that is
born alive and killed as prosecutors alleged.
The 72-year-old physician, nevertheless still faces the death
penalty if convicted of first-degree murder in the four remaining baby
deaths for which he is charged. Prosecutors have argued that Gosnell and
his staff killed these so-called “viable” babies by cutting the backs
of their necks after they lived through an abortion procedure.
The judge also upheld murder charges in the case of an adult
patient, Karnamaya Monger, 41, who died of an overdose of anesthetics
prescribed by Gosnell.
Dr. Alveda C. King grew up
in the civil rights movement led by her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. She is a pastoral associate and director of African-American
outreach for Priests for Life and Gospel of Life Ministries. Her family
home in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed, as was her father’s church office
in Louisville, Ky. Alveda herself was jailed during the open housing
movement.
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