Prosecutor on Handling Abortionist's 'Stained' Files: 'You Might Want to Use Gloves'
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, charged with 7 counts of first-degree murder, killing babies reportedly born alive at his abortion office in West Philadelphia, Pa. (AP
More than three years after Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic was raided by the FBI, blood-stained files recovered from the Women’s Medical Society still smell from the clinic, which was described by the grand jury as a “baby charnel house.”
Gosnell currently is on trial in Philadelphia for the first-degree murder of seven babies that were born alive during abortions and then killed, the third-degree murder of a woman, and a variety of related charges.
Assistant District Attorney Edward Cameron presented dozens of files from patients at the clinic in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday, all for women who underwent abortion procedures beyond 24 weeks, which is illegal in Pennsylvania.
When presenting the files to Gosnell’s attorney, Jack McMahon, Cameron cautioned, “You might want to use gloves.”
“The files smell,” he said. “You might want to use gloves because there’s a red dried substance.”