{"id":33886,"date":"2013-04-27T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=33886"},"modified":"2014-06-23T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T05:06:07","slug":"kermit-gosnell-the-back-alley-and-the-front-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kermit-gosnell-the-back-alley-and-the-front-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Kermit Gosnell, the back alley, and the front door"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was first printed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2013\/kermit-gosnell-the-back-alley-and-the-front-door\/\">Elliot Institute<\/a> (<em>PO Box 7348, Springfield, IL 62791-7348<\/em>) on April 23, 2013 and is reprinted here with permission. <em>Additional material is posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterabortion.org\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25841\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/kermit-gosnell.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25841\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-25841 \" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/kermit-gosnell.jpg\" alt=\"Kermit Gosnell\" width=\"210\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kermit Gosnell.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324030704578422883948238160.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>, James Taranto, a self-described member of the \u201cmushy middle\u201d on abortion, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the strongest practical arguments in favor of the <em>Roe<\/em> regime is that abortion has been around since time immemorial and outlawing it only drove it underground, leading women to endanger themselves by seeking out the services of back-alley quacks. The Philadelphia grand jurors recounted a powerful example from their own city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>It was called the Mother\u2019s Day Massacre. A young Philadelphia doctor \u201coffered to perform abortions on 15 poor women who were bused to his clinic from Chicago on Mother\u2019s Day 1972, in their second trimester of pregnancy.\u201d The women didn\u2019t know that the doctor \u201cplanned to use an experimental device called a \u2018super coil\u2019 developed by a California man named Harvey Karman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A colleague of Karman\u2019s Philadelphia collaborator described the contraption as \u201cbasically plastic razors that were formed into a ball. .\u00a0.\u00a0. They were coated into a gel, so that they would remain closed. These would be inserted into the woman\u2019s uterus. And after several hours of body temperature, .\u00a0.\u00a0. the gel would melt and these .\u00a0.\u00a0. things would spring open, supposedly cutting up the fetus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nine of the 15 Chicago women suffered serious complications. One of them needed a hysterectomy. The following year, the Supreme Court decided <em>Roe v. Wade.<\/em> It would be 37 more years before the Philadelphia doctor who carried out the Mother\u2019s Day Massacre would go out of business. His name is Kermit Gosnell.<\/p>\n<p>Back-alley abortions were indisputably a problem before 1973. That\u2019s no defense of the <em>Roe<\/em> regime, which failed to solve it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Women Still Injured and Killed After Legalization<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the legalization of abortion has failed to prevent women from being exploited, abused, traumatized, maimed, injured, and killed before, during, and after abortion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19982\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/reaves.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19982\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19982\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/reaves.jpg\" alt=\"Tonya Reaves \" width=\"241\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tonya Reaves.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Women and girls still die from abortion, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2012\/09\/11\/autopsy-proves-planned-parenthood-killed-woman-in-botched-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tonya Reaves<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/03\/13\/death-certificate-confirms-woman-died-from-33-week-botched-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Morbelli<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/02\/12\/jennifer-morbelli-not-the-first-woman-carhart-killed-in-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christin Gilbert<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/20130417_Gosnell_to_victim_s_brother___I_did_nothing_wrong__.html\" target=\"_blank\">Karnamaya Mongar<\/a>, to name just a few, but their deaths are no longer automatically investigated by police or even <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2012\/invisible-abortion-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\">counted<\/a> in the official <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2000\/the-cover-up-why-u-s-abortion-mortality-statistics-are-meaningless\/\" target=\"_blank\">statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Research has linked abortion to <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/?p=7755\" target=\"_blank\">higher death rates<\/a> among women in the years following, as well as increased rates of <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2013\/the-abortion-breast-cancer-link-part-one-of-four\/\" target=\"_blank\">breast cancer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/news\/subabuse4.htm\" target=\"_blank\">substance abuse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2003\/study-links-depression-with-abortion-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">depression<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/news\/suicide205.html\" target=\"_blank\">suicide<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/?p=7750\" target=\"_blank\">subsequent pre-term birth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/News\/colemanmentalhealthstudy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">anxiety disorders<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2011\/most-studies-show-abortion-linked-to-increased-mental-health-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\">other problems<\/a>. Yet abortion clinics routinely fail to screen for <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2011\/risk-factors-for-psychological-problems-after-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\">known, statistically validated risk factors<\/a> that increase women\u2019s likelihood of psychological problems after abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Nor are the abortionists usually held accountable for the deaths and injuries they cause. Dr. Lenora Berning, an emergency room doctor who has <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2000\/abortionists-are-not-held-accountable-for-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">treated women<\/a> injured by abortion, notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abortion is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in the United States, yet it is the least regulated. It is the only elective surgical procedure that I know of in which the doctor performing the procedure is not responsible for follow-up care, nor does he or she take an active role in dealing with the complications. Not only this, but the very nature of abortion clinics, which practice in isolation from the rest of the medical community, keeps the abortion provider free from accountability for these complications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Filthy clinics, substandard care, illegal procedures, untrained and unlicensed staff, and the other appalling conditions found at Gosnell\u2019s clinic are, unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2013\/exception-or-rule-gosnells-house-of-horrors-not-so-rare\/\" target=\"_blank\">not as rare<\/a> as most people think, nor did they go away with legalization. For example, a Delaware clinic was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/04\/10\/planned-parenthood-closed-investigated-for-botched-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\">closed and is being investigated<\/a> over allegations of multiple botched abortions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women Are Less Free after Legalization<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But risking these hazards is necessary in order for women to maintain their reproductive freedom, right? To the contrary, the legalization of abortion has done nothing to advance women\u2019s freedom. Given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/coerced.htm\" target=\"_blank\">research and anecdotal evidence<\/a> showing that most women who abort are pressured to do so, and that most abortions are likely unwanted, one could argue that abortion has made women less free.<\/p>\n<p>Before <em>Roe<\/em>, a woman or girl who was being pressured or coerced to abort could resist on the grounds that it was illegal, unsafe, and immoral. Legalization has made it easier for those around her to insist that because abortion is legal, it must be \u201csafe,\u201d and because it is \u201csocially approved,\u201d it must be moral. It makes it easier for them to refuse to support her desire to continue the pregnancy and insist that she abort anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pregnantpiercing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33377\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pregnantpiercing-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"pregnantpiercing\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pregnantpiercing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pregnantpiercing.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For example, when actress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/SHOWBIZ\/9712\/22\/melrose.lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Tylo<\/a> was fired from the TV show <em>Melrose Place<\/em> after she became pregnant, her pregnancy discrimination suit quoted a producer as saying, \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t she just go out and get an abortion? Then she can work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/News\/coercionarticlewithdrawn.htm\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> published several years ago on a popular men\u2019s website offered advice to men about how to pressure their wives or girlfriends into unwanted abortions. The article was taken down after numerous complaints, but not before readers saw Isabella Snow\u2019s advice that men weren\u2019t obligated to support their child \u201cbeyond what your conscience and the law expects of you.\u201d Rather than asking men to step up to the plate, Snow suggested they threaten abandonment in order to secure an abortion, regardless of the woman\u2019s wishes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This was her decision, not yours, and the bulk of the responsibility is now hers. Take a moment to spell this out for her when she gives you her final decision; it just may sway her over to your side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The legalization of abortion has not ended <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2005\/new-study-links-abortion-to-increased-risk-of-child-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">child abuse<\/a> (child abuse rates have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2013\/01\/7630\/\" target=\"_blank\">increased<\/a> since 1973) or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/News\/britishabusestudy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">violence<\/a> against women. At least two studies of maternal death rates found that homicide was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/pdf\/FactSheets\/ForcedAbortionFactSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">leading cause of death<\/a> among pregnant women. Tracking news stories reveals that in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/pdf\/FactSheets\/ForcedAbortions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">many cases<\/a>, the perpetrator wanted to get rid of the pregnancy and attacked or killed the victim after she refused to abort. For teens and young girls, abortion is often used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/articles\/coverup.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cover and up and continue sexual abuse<\/a> by getting rid of the evidence of the crime \u2014 the resulting pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Putting Abortion Ideology before Women<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given all this, one would think that abortion advocates would be fighting to stamp out abuses and improve the standard of care in abortion clinics, as some have recently claimed. But reality has proven these claims to be false.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of physical and psychological harm to women is routinely <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2012\/dr-reardon-responds-to-attacks-on-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2011\/abortion-and-mental-health-controversy-reignited-by-new-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/?p=6973\" target=\"_blank\">attacked<\/a> by abortion advocates and their allies. Nancy Russo, a spokesperson for the American Psychological Association, <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2006\/evidence-doesnt-matter-apa-spokesperson-says-of-abortion-complications\/\" target=\"_blank\">admitted<\/a> that a study linking abortion to increased rates of mental health problems among women (a study conducted by a pro-choice researcher, no less) would have no effect on the APA\u2019s position on abortion because \u201cto pro-choice advocates, mental health effects are not relevant to the legal context of arguments to restrict access to abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abortion advocates have repeatedly <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2011\/planned-parenthood-sues-to-stop-south-dakota-screening-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">fought efforts<\/a> to implement commonsense measures \u2014 such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopforcedabortions.com\/initiative.htm\" target=\"_blank\">screening<\/a> for coercion and pre-existing risk factors for post-abortion psychological problems \u2014 that would protect the rights, health, and lives of women facing abortion. In fact, while abortion clinics claim to protect women\u2019s \u201cright to choose,\u201d they actually don\u2019t promote any other option than abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Gosnell\u2019s clinic <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2013\/forced-abortion-sedation\/\" target=\"_blank\">advised<\/a> women to pay more for sedation if \u201cyour decision is being forced by your parents or partner,\u201d while a Kansas clinic pre-printed its forms to show that no reports of abuse had been filed for their patients. Former clinic workers have <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2012\/planned-parenthoods-mission-is-to-pressure-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that they were trained to hide information from women and pressure them to abort, with one former Planned Parenthood counselor noting that \u201cPlanned Parenthood\u2019s mission is to pressure as many women into having abortion as it can.\u201d And women have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/News\/ruestudy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a>, over and over again, about being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/articles\/disclosureandcoerciongsw2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">denied<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/articles\/notpreparedgsw3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">vital information<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/articles\/darlenecoercedstory.htm\" target=\"_blank\">coerced<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/articles\/darlenecoercedstory.htm\" target=\"_blank\">bullied<\/a> into abortion by clinic staff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25286\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/clinic1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25286\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25286\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/clinic1-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Filthy abortion clinic equipment\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/clinic1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/clinic1.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filthy abortion clinic equipment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even when problems come to light, they are often not reported \u2014 or if they are, they are often ignored by both the regulators and the media. In Gosnell\u2019s case, his clinic had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalrighttolifenews.org\/news\/2013\/04\/gosnell-grand-jury-excerpts-the-travesty-from-this-grand-jurys-perspective-is-that-the-department-of-health-could-and-should-have-closed-down-gosnells-clinic-years-before\/\" target=\"_blank\">not been inspected<\/a> in 13 years. Staff members and others who knew about the problems, including an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/04\/18\/national-abortion-federation-never-reported-gosnells-house-of-horrors\" target=\"_blank\">official<\/a> from the National Abortion Federation (which denied Gosnell\u2019s application for membership based on deficiencies at his clinic), didn\u2019t report the problems.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Grand Jury <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2011\/01\/20\/health-dept-ignored-abortionist-who-killed-woman-babies-with-scissors\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, health officials \u201cknew that Gosnell and his clinic were offering unacceptable medical care to women and girls, yet DOH failed to take any action to stop the atrocities documented by this Grand Jury.\u201d Further, the Grand Jury \u201cdiscovered that Pennsylvania\u2019s Department of Health has deliberately chosen not to enforce laws that should afford patients at abortion clinics the same safeguards and assurances of quality health care as patients of other medical service providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Gosnell\u2019s arrest, abortion advocates have continued to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aul.org\/2013\/04\/in-the-shadow-of-gosnell-horrors-abortion-advocates-continue-to-lobby-against-clinic-regulations-in-virginia\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=in-the-shadow-of-gosnell-horrors-abortion-advocates-continue-to-lobby-against-clinic-regulations-in-virginia\" target=\"_blank\">fight<\/a> proposed regulations elsewhere &#8211; even ones that could <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2013\/kermit-gosnell-the-back-alley-and-the-front-door\/www.jillstanek.com\/2013\/04\/kermit-who-abortion-proponents-still-claiming-emergency-access-to-clinics-is-unnecessary\/\" target=\"_blank\">save<\/a> women\u2019s lives. It appears that political protection for abortion trumps the health and lives of women and girls (to say nothing of the lives of children, including those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/04\/18\/gosnell-staffer-newborn-was-tossed-in-shoe-box-still-breathing\/\" target=\"_blank\">born alive<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legal Abortions, Back-Alley Ethics<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So it seems that the only real difference between getting an abortion before <em>Roe<\/em> and getting one after is the door by which you enter.* As one researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/afterabortion.org\/2011\/the-truth-about-back-alley-abortions\/\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out<\/a>, \u201cWhile abortion is legal, it is still practiced with the ethics of the back alley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/News\/FLS\/2006\/022006\/02062006\/164649\" target=\"_blank\">letter posted at Fredricksburg.com<\/a>, Eileen Roberts, president of Mothers and Advocates for Mothers Alone, and the mother of a teen girl injured by abortion, wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How can we be so naive to think that every surgical procedure of abortion is safe and use the argument that women would resort to back-alley abortions? Legalizing abortion simply gave the back-alley physician permission to put his shingle on the front door.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Abortion may be currently legal, but it is anything but safe for either mother or child. In every abortion someone dies.<\/p>\n<p>My 14-year-old was told she was going to the best abortion clinic in Virginia. Her boyfriend and a so-called adult friend, who transported her 45 miles from our home, did not know her as her parents did.<\/p>\n<p>She suffered emotional and physical consequences from a so-called safe, legal abortion.<\/p>\n<p>To add insult to injury, my husband and I were responsible for more than $27,000 in medical costs to repair the damage done by the abortionist.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, this was an example of a legal back-alley abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~~~<\/p>\n<p>*Prior to <em>Roe<\/em>, women seeking illegal abortions at doctors\u2019 offices were often instructed to enter by the back-door after regular office hours to allay suspicion \u2014 hence the term \u201cback-alley abortion.\u201d Most <a href=\"http:\/\/realchoice.0catch.com\/library\/weekly\/aa082901a.htm\" target=\"_blank\">illegal abortions<\/a> were, in fact, performed by doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only difference is the door by which you enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":33893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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