A PHILADELPHIA abortion provider is going on trial for murder in a case that could send the 72-year-old to death row.
Dr Kermit Gosnell, whose trial starts on Monday, is charged with running a rogue abortion clinic in West Philadelphia that allegedly performed illegal, late-term abortions and injured countless women through lax medical procedures.
Gosnell, 72, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the deaths of a female patient and seven babies allegedly born alive. His wife, a beautician, is among eight clinic workers who are charged with him.
They are accused of performing secret third-term abortions on Sundays.
A 2011 grand jury report describes nearly unfathomable conditions, including fetal body parts stored in glass jars and filthy operating areas.
"Anybody walking into that clinic should have known immediately that it should have been shut down," said Bernard Smalley, a lawyer for the family of Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old refugee who died after being given too much anesthesia and pain medication during a 2009 abortion.
Philadelphia prosecutors accuse state and local authorities of turning a blind eye to laws requiring regular inspections. And they say the occasional complaints that trickled in, one after an earlier patient death, went nowhere.
"We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of colour, because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion," said the 2011 grand jury report, released by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams.
The case prompted state lawmakers to tighten clinic regulations.
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