March 1, 2013/Philadelphia, PA --
Jury selection is set to begin on Monday in the highly publicized capital murder case against Philadelphia late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, whose squalid "house of horrors" abortion clinic and callous, almost flippant attitude toward his macabre abortion practices shocked the nation.
"The Gosnell case is a watershed moment for the issue of abortion," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation. "The discovery of his horrific practices helped shed light on an abortion industry that has run amok without oversight or accountability for decades, and has prompted significant changes in abortion laws and attitudes toward enforcement in several states."
In all, Gosnell faces 43 criminal counts, including eight counts of murder in the death of one patient, Karnamaya Monger, and seven newborn infants. Additional charges include conspiracy, drug delivery resulting in death, infanticide, corruption of minors, evidence tampering, theft by deception, abuse of corpse, and corruption.
The case began in January, 2010, when police raided Gosnell Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia, thinking that it was a "pill mill" that was the city's largest supplier of Oxycontin that ended up on the streets for illegal sale. But once officers entered the clinic, they discovered it was something much worse.
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