Sins of omission: The Gosnell defenses the press dared not mention

“They have no case,” the defense attorney said of a victim named Baby Boy A, “because it was killed in utero.” Kermit Gosnell injected a poison into the woman’s abdomen, his attorney argued, “to prevent a live birth. That was the goal of Dr. Gosnell with [the mother’s] consent: to kill the baby in utero.”

That was the heart of Gosnell’s defense. The attorney, John McMahon, built his closing arguments around those claims. It didn’t work. Gosnell, a late-term abortionist, was convicted of killing babies and causing the death of one mother. I will have more to say later this week about Gosnell, who died on Monday, but for now I want to point out something.

Search the internet for those quotations from Gosnell’s attorney: “Every one of those babies died in utero” and  “that was the goal of Dr. Gosnell … to kill the baby in utero.”

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