Photos: Kermit Gosnell’s clinic today
I expect many pro-lifers are being drawn to pray at serial killer Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic if in the Philadelphia area, as my husband and I were over the weekend.
It is a macabre, ghostly place. Shocking to me was the clinic appears from the outside to have been left virtually untouched since the FBI raided it on February 18, 2010, over four years ago.
Also shocking was that life appears to go on unchanged around the building. 
As I stood there, cars whizzed by and people strolled past chatting and laughing.
I don’t know what I expected, but I found it surreal that 3801 Lancaster isn’t being respected and protected more as a grim historical site, where the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history committed his crimes.
Tens of thousands of babies were murdered by abortion inside those walls over the course of four decades – an untold number after delivery by having their spinal cords “snipped.”
But there is no yellow tape marking the building as a horrific crime scene, or a sign denoting it as the final resting place of so many victims, whose bodies were ground up in a garbage disposal.
In a sane world plans would already be underway to denote this place as a grim national landmark – although I realize the world is insane. It would also be an apt site for an abortion holocaust museum.
I had trouble settling down to pray. My spirit was greatly disturbed. The place felt quietly demonic, as if the killing might have stopped, but evil spirits still lurked about.
But at the same time it felt like a shrine, with thousands of angelic spirits there as well, quietly demanding justice.
The experience was probably similar to visiting the Jewish death camps, I suppose.
Here is a gallery of the photos I took. Click once on the photo to isolate it, then again to enlarge it…
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- “Cleaned”? NOT, although I’m glad it has been left untouched. Would love access.
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- Front view
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- What went on behind these windows?
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- Peeling paint
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- 3801 Lancaster – infamous clinic address
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- Front door
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- Trash in entryway
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- Defunct doorbell
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- Lots of attempted deliveries
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- Gosnell’s “Special Asst,” wife Pearl, got 7-23 months as an accomplice
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- “In loving memory of Cornelia Keith Gosnell” – Kermit’s aunt
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- Front street view
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- Rows of “I wish this was” stickers wishing more vulgar uses for this killing place
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- View from front window
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- View from front window
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- View from side window
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- Bars over side window
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- Cars and people pass by as if nothing happened here.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I thought I heard something about plans to turn it into a soup kitchen or food bank? That would be appropriate–transforming it into a place that actually helps people.
The picture with the reflection of Jill taking a picture is such a poignant multi-layered picture. (The one titled “In loving memory of…”) It is a really great picture. Words can’t do it justice. You really ought to enter it in a photo contest.
There ought to be a pro-life summer photo contest.
Jill, you should have called me, I would have treated you a hubby to a cheesesteak :-)
See the neighborhood here:
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2gl52fz1ytdknz2gczskz2u
Tommy R, thanks, although the reflection was unintentional. Phillymiss, rats! We did try cheesesteak sandwiches at Campo’s and Sonny’s, though. We got conflicting recommendations on Geno’s/Pat’s, so we didn’t go to either.
“I thought I heard something about plans to turn it into a soup kitchen or food bank?”
I believe that was one of the other clinics he worked at. The one in Delaware, I think.
What a tremendous improvement. Better to have trash laying around then the bloody mess it used to be.
That’s “cleaned” ???? I guess, if by “cleaned” they mean “devoid of dead bodies”…SHEESH !
Jill, that area used to be populated by mostly lower income black people, but now there are lots of Drexel and Penn students living in apartments there, and they tend to be pro-abortion, so I doubt if they know or care what went on there. The area is also slowly becoming a hipster enclave — skinny twenty somethings in black wearing Vans sneakers and riding bikes to their day jobs as barristas abound.. There may be prolife hipsters, just like there may be prolife Unitarians, but I’ve never met either.