Kermit Gosnell: A Front-Pager That Wasn't
Kermit Gosnell. Have you heard this name? Maybe not. But you should have by now. According to witnesses in his grand jury murder trial, Gosnell ran an abortion clinic that went way beyond the call of duty. According to his grand jury report, "This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy -- and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors... This business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels -- and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths." Horrifying testimony, but I'm not hearing much about it. Are you? Kirsten Powers, a USA Today reporter, begins her story of this trial with these words: "We've forgotten what belongs on Page One. Infant b...