The post-Roe blue-state drive to wipe out barriers to abortion has pro-life advocates worried about grisly worst-case scenarios, and the scenarios don’t get any grislier than the Kermit Gosnell case.
The Philadelphia abortion doctor was convicted in 2013 on murder charges in the deaths of three born-alive infants, but often overlooked is that Gosnell was able to avoid regular inspections for 17 years thanks to political concerns about discouraging reproductive rights.
“Gosnell was killing in plain sight, but regulators chose to look away because they didn’t want to shine a spotlight on abortion,” said journalist Ann McElhinney, host of a newly released Gosnell podcast.