The anti-abortion group Live Action has released a new video of secretly taped conversations at an abortion clinic in Brooklyn in which employees describe procedures that have drawn comparisons to those at the clinic of Kermit Gosnell. Dr. Gosnell is currently being tried for the murder of live babies as well as a patient who died under his care. The videos are the latest in an undercover campaign by the group exposing improper practices at abortion clinics. In one video, a woman who is posing as a pregnant patient asks a staff member what happens if the baby “comes out” at home before she arrives at the clinic. She is told, “If it comes out, it comes out. Flush it.” The woman then asks what would happen if the baby survives the procedure and is “twitching” or “breathing”; she is told that fetuses are put into a chemical solution at the lab, and “the solution will make it stop.” However, later in the video, an abortion counselor tells the woman that though it is unlikely that a baby would survive the procedure, “Once that pregnancy comes out alive, [the doctor] will do everything he can to save it.”

In another video taken at a facility near Washington D.C., a doctor says that if a baby was born alive following the abortion, “we would not help it.” He tells the woman, who says she is 24-weeks pregnant, “I mean, technically, you know, legally, we would be obligated to help it, you know, to survive, but ... it probably wouldn’t. It’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point” … Discuss

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 … Discuss

Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell may take the witness stand this week in the murder trial that has caused a media firestorm. Gosnell is accused of gruesome crimes, including murdering live babies, running a dangerous and unsanitary abortion clinic and allowing untrained personnel to administer powerful medications. In opening statements, his lawyer said there has been a "rush to judgment" against the doctor. His defense team starts making their case this week, after prosecution witnesses and evidences painted a grisly portrait of what took place at the facility, which also included the death of a patient. Prosecutors had more than 540 evidence exhibits obtained during an FBI raid on the clinic … Discuss

In the final days of testimonies from prosecution witnesses in the Kermit Gosnell murder trial, there have been more, extremely disturbing details to come forth. (Warning, some of the descriptions below and images contained in the news articles linked are graphic.) A former medical assistant at the abortion clinic testified that she saw at least 10 babies born after failed abortions who were breathing before Dr. Gosnell killed them. In another case, a baby survived the procedure and was “swimming” in a toilet, attempting to get out. Dr. Gosnell snipped the baby’s neck with scissors. At the time, Cross filed a complaint with local authorities, but nothing was done to follow up.

The case has ignited a media firestorm about the politics of covering abortion after a USA Today column by Kirsten Powers exposed the lack of coverage it received from major outlets, and the horrendous details of the allegations … Discuss