Kermit Gosnell, post-birth abortionist

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During the 2013 murder trial of Kermit Gosnell, I got a front-row seat in the courthouse for the defense’s closing arguments. I didn’t get to the courthouse in Philadelphia terribly early. I got a prime spot in the press section because most of the news media didn’t want to touch the trial of a late-term abortionist.

“If it bleeds, it leads,” is a colorful, cynical, and generally true description of the media’s attraction to gore. Gosnell’s butcher shop was the exception to that rule. Karnamaya Mongar didn’t die from bleeding after Gosnell aborted her baby, but she did die thanks to Gosnell’s malpractice. And thousands of