Three Murder Charges Thrown Out in Kermit Gosnell Case; Still Faces Numerous Others

The judge in the high-profile murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has thrown out several charges in the case, including three that he murdered babies that were born alive, for (what is believed to be) insufficient evidence. He was also acquitted of five charges that he abused a corpse, and six counts of theft by deception were dismissed. Gosnell, who is accused of running a dangerous, unsanitary abortion clinic that preformed illegal late-term abortions and murdered babies that were born alive after failed procedures, is still facing numerous charges including four for first degree murder in the deaths of several infants and one for the death of a patient …