This is an update of the story I posted here on February 7th entitled ‘Who killed Karnamaya Mongar?–a Bhutanese refugee* from Virginia who was taken by someone to an abortion doctor in Philadelphia specializing in “poor women.”
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Philadelphia prosecutors paved the way in court on Wednesday toward seeking the death penalty for a doctor accused of killing live, viable babies at his abortion clinic.
Prosecutors filed notice that the case against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who faces multiple charges of first-degree murder, meets the standards of a death penalty case, said assistant District Attorney Christine Wechsler outside Common Pleas court.
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“What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors,” it said in its 260-page findings last month.
“The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforating their wombs and bowels and on at least two occasions caused their deaths,” it said.
If anyone is following this case closely, please let me know what court documents say about how Mrs. Mongar got to Philadelphia and found Gosnell in the first place. By the way, just a reminder that a Catholic Resettlement agency in Virginia came under fire in 2008 because a staffer facilitated an abortion for an unaccompanied minor in their care, here.
Just like refugees don’t know in their first months here how to write to their Congressmen, they also would be hard pressed to find an ‘affordable’ abortion doctor without the assistance of their resettlement agencies or someone who worked or volunteered there.
* The so-called Bhutanese refugees are really of Nepali origin and have been living in camps in Nepal (which won’t take its ethnic Nepali people back) so we are taking them—the goal is for the US to take 60,000 or more over 5 years. Here are the numbers for FY2010 at the Cultural Orientation Resource Center. Note they are not up to date with their statistics—they should have the first quarter of FY 2011 posted and they don’t. I suspect they don’t want the public to know how many refugees are still coming in spite of difficult economic times.