Kermit Gosnell is a former abortionist from Philadelphia, and he became infamous for killing babies in what was called live-birth abortions. During the investigation into his abortion center, Women’s Medical Society, his clinic was dubbed the “house of horrors.”
As Life News reports, he died at SCI Huntingdon, a maximum-security state prison for men in Pennsylvania, at the age of 85.
Gosnell was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder for killing these babies in these live birth abortions. The trial revealed that three babies were delivered alive during prohibited late-term procedures but were later killed by severing their spinal cords.
His life sentences were given without any chance of parole.
Ann McElhinney, a pro-life journalist who originally covered his 2013 trial, called the doctor a chilling monster who “is thought to have murdered thousands of babies in a 30 year killing spree.”
Steven Ertelt, editor of Life News, says Gosnell also ran a pill mill. In a separate trial in 2013 trial, he was convicted of illegally distributing OxyContin and other controlled substances through the clinic.
"Honestly, this is a good reminder for people that we need to get right with Jesus," Ertelt tells AFN. "This is somebody who engaged in brutal, evil practices, and unfortunately, I don't think there's any indication this man claimed to know Christ as his savior and had a relationship with God. It just is a good reminder that we need to do that, unlike Kermit Gosnell."
Meanwhile, are there other Kermit Gosnells out there today? Ertelt says absolutely.
"There are a ton of different Kermit Gosnells across the country right now, mainly because so many states — and these are all blue states — have abortions up to birth. We know that there are late-term viable babies after 21 weeks who could live outside the mother's womb but are being killed in these brutal late-term abortions," Ertelt states.
For example, Ertelt says this is happening in states such as Colorado and Maryland.
"Multiple states across the country have these late-term abortion businesses, and they have no regard for the life of the mother or the life of the baby," Ertelt states.
