by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Another Philadelphia abortionist testified for the prosecution today in Kermit Gosnell’s murder trial. While pro-choice bloggers are crowing about access to abortion in Philadelphia, today’s witness notes that he is one of 4 abortionists left in the city:
  

  Dr. Charles Benjamin is one of about four abortion providers left in Philadelphia in the wake of Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s arrest two years ago. His testimony was received by “an influx of reporters.”

  Benjamin, by his own count, has performed 40,000 abortions over a 30-year career. He doesn’t do them after 21 weeks, or three weeks shy of the 24-week limit in Pennsylvania, he said.

  Gosnell is accused of performing illegal, late-term abortions and running a dangerously outdated clinic staffed by untrained workers. Benjamin said that he has registered nurses on staff to monitor patients, and that only he or a nurse anesthetist give anesthesia, unlike Gosnell’s clinic, where workers hired to clean instruments or handle paperwork have testified that Gosnell trained them to administer potent intravenous drugs….

  An influx of reporters attended the trial Monday, spurred by criticism that some broadcasters were not covering the trial. A gag order prevents lawyers from speaking outside and no cameras are allowed inside the courtroom.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The decision regarding the fate of the Northern Illinois Women’s Center abortion clinic in Rockford, Illinois will wait another two weeks: Attorneys for the NIWC and Illinois Department of Public Health were back before Administrative Law Judge Cynthia Ramirez this morning. They were expected to announce the terms […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat A UT legislator wants his state to inspect abortion clinics twice a year, one being a surprise inspection: He testified, “We have one abortion clinic in Salt Lake City which, according to the Health Department, has not been inspected and has not had a Health Department worker go […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Blogger P.Z. Myers shows a high degree of thoughtlessness (even more than usual) when he writes that he doesn’t think abortionist Kermit Gosnell should be charged with murdering the infants who survived abortion attempts. He’s scared it might open the door to charging other abortionists who perform late-term […]

(All photos in this post were taken from Grand Jury report. Click all to enlarge.) The National Abortion Federation touts itself as “the professional association of abortion providers in North America.”

UPDATE, 10:45a: More from the Toronto Star… Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made millions of dollars over 30 years, performing as many illegal, late-term abortions as he could, prosecutors said…. Gosnell “induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into […]

UPDATE, 3:15p: RightJuris.com, February 22… A shocking discovery was made in the office of a Philadelphia doctor by authorities investigating the report of a woman’s death during an abortion. Two dozen frozen fetuses were found in Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s office displayed in jars. Some of the fetuses date back over 30 years….