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“This book is a public service.” — MICHELLE MALKIN, founder of Twitchy and author of Culture of Corruption
“Every American needs to read Gosnell.” — DAVID DALEIDEN, the Center for American Progress reporter behind the undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood
"Ann and Phelim courageously tell the heart wrenching, shocking story previously ignored, one that every American needs to read." — KATIE PAVLICH, Townhall Editor and Fox News Contributor.
He is America’s most prolific serial killer. And yet Kermit Gosnell was no obvious criminal.
Through desperate attempts to cover up the truth, the mainstream media revealed exactly how important Kermit Gosnell’s story is. National best seller Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer is a book that rocked America – and now it is a major motion picture!
Masquerading as a doctor and an advocate for women’s reproductive health, Kermit Gosnell was purposefully ignored for years. Gosnell reveals that inside his filthy clinic, Gosnell murdered born-alive infants, butchered women, and made a chilling collection of baby feet. Meanwhile, pro-choice politicians kept health inspectors far away. Only when tenacious undercover detective Jim Wood followed a narcotics investigation straight into the clinic did Gosnell’s reign of horror finally come to an end…and the fight for justice begin.
Written by investigative journalists Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, this gripping story premiers October 12 as a major motion picture, starring Dean Cain as Detective Wood. Fans of the movie – and every pro-life American – should dive into this nationally bestselling book for a closer look into the shocking and gruesome crime of the century.
Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer reveals….
- How Kermit Gosnell would eat cereal or snack on sandwiches – while performing abortions.
- How Gosnell carelessly allowed “that Indian woman,” Karnamaya Mongar, to die a bloody death.
- How Gosnell’s employees admitted to snipping the necks of hundreds of breathing babies.
- How Tom Ridge, a “pro-choice” Republican governor, put a stop to Pennsylvania Health Department inspections for seventeen years.
- How Sherry West, the clinic employee whose mental health problems, drug addiction, and Hepatitis C infection, were well known to Gosnell, overdosed, maltreated, and abused patients for years.
- How new mother and prosecutor Assistant District Attorney Christine Wechsler found herself having to cut open the skulls of forty-seven dead babies during the investigation.
- How the pro-abortion media blacked out what should have been the trial of the century – and how they were finally shamed into covering the case.
- Why Kermit Gosnell, unrepentant murderer, expects to be vindicated by history.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRegnery Publishing
- Publication dateJanuary 24, 2017
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McAleer has worked as a journalist in Belfast covering the Northern Ireland conflict for The Irish News. He was a crime correspondent for the UK Sunday Times and based in Romania he was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Timesand The Economist magazine. He is a regular columnist for the Irish Times and the New York Post.
Ann McElhinney has written for the Irish Times, the UK Sunday Times and produced documentaries for the BBC, CBC (Canada) and RTE (Ireland). they produced and directed the documentary FrackNation (2013).
McElhinney and McAleer are originally from Ireland and are now living in Los Angeles. They produced and co-wrote Gosnell, a feature film starring Dean Cain (Lois & Clark) released in 2017. They are married.
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Hollywood could not conjure up a villain more barbaric and cold-blooded than true-life serial killer Kermit Gosnell. Investigative journalists Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer take you face to face with Philadelphia’s baby butcher in this gripping exposé. But the story is especially chilling because he did not act alone. The true horror lies in Gosnell’s ghoulish gallery of enablersfeckless government bureaucrats, abortion radicals, and an AWOL media. McElhinney and McAleer are unflinching torchbearers of truth. This book is a public service.”
Michelle Malkin, author of Culture of Corruption and Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild
Gosnell reads like a literary Criminal Minds. This deftly-written, gripping, and graphic account of the arrest and grand jury investigation into Kermit Gosnell’s nightmarish house of horrors reveals the truth about the monster who murdered with no compunction and kept ghastly trophies of his victims. Gosnell thoroughly reports the facts the mainstream press largely ignored: that, for years, complaints about unsafe conditions and even fatal malpractice at Gosnell’s clinic were met with zero action, so concerned were the powers-that-be with protecting unfettered access to abortion. Gosnell indicts a system that, in the name of women’s reproductive health,” failed to do anything to protect the women and born-alive infants who were slaughtered at 3801 Lancaster Avenue.”
Maria McFadden Maffucci, editor, Human Life Review
Ann and Phelim courageously tell the heart-wrenching, shocking story previously ignored, one that every American needs to read. With each page, abortionist Kermit Gosnell takes his place in American history as a monster whose victims were the most innocent and helpless among us.”
Katie Pavlich, editor, Townhall.com
In this historic book, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer meticulously record the harrowing true-crime story of Kermit Gosnell’s barbaric abortion and infanticide business. Every American needs to read Gosnell, because the atrocities he committed, with the knowledge and support of public authorities, demand that we answer what we really believe about human dignity and the law’s equal protection for the most vulnerable.”
David Daleiden, the undercover reporter behind the Center for Medical Progress videos that exposed Planned Parenthood’s baby parts business
Warning: once you start reading this, you will not be able to put it down. It will grip you from the first page and not let you go. No matter what pre-judgments you may have when you begin, they will be challenged.”
Connie Marshner, pro-life strategist and CEO of Connie Marshner & Associates
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McAleer has worked as a journalist in Belfast covering the Northern Ireland conflict for The Irish News. He was a crime correspondent for the UK Sunday Times and based in Romania he was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Timesand The Economist magazine. He is a regular columnist for the Irish Times and the New York Post.
Ann McElhinney has written for the Irish Times, the UK Sunday Times and produced documentaries for the BBC, CBC (Canada) and RTE (Ireland). they produced and directed the documentary FrackNation (2013).
McElhinney and McAleer are originally from Ireland and are now living in Los Angeles. They produced and co-wrote Gosnell, a feature film starring Dean Cain (Lois & Clark) to be released in 2017. They are married. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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Amazing. Exhilarating. Awakening.
First and foremost this is a book about manner and means in which (i) Dr. Kermit Gosnell engaged in his long history murder; (ii) the number of persons who aided him in his gruesome acts, whether motivated by greed or callous disregard for human life; (iii) State medical agencies that had multiple opportunities to intervene over decades but failed to do so either from incompetence, laziness, or an outright determination to coverup Dr. Gosnell's heinous crimes because his crimes only affected forgettable poor black and brown girls; and (iv) when Dr. Gosnell was final arrested and brought forth to trial, the reasons why the "main stream press" chose ignore the story.
Many will argue that this book and the Gosnell case is an indictment on abortion, but it is a shortsighted argument. The Gosnell case really asks whether the lives of black and brown women and the live fetuses Dr. Gosnell delivered ALIVE then decapitated truly matter. Simply stated, women from the urban community in Philadelphia were the main clientele of Dr. Gosnell's abortion practice. His office was disgusting. My stomach turns and my heart breaks for any woman desperate enough to utilize his office to have such an emotional and physically invasive procedure performed. I will leave the details for those who choose to read the book but you will truly understand the "house of horrors" phrase once you get through with the passage. Needless to say, for those women who make it through the front waiting room, the procedure room is worse. If you were lucky, you did not wake up during your abortion. If you did wake up, Dr. Gosnell might punch you in the hip, the stomach, the legs, or the face. If you were really unlucky, you did not wake up at all. Worse yet, you woke up sort of and were sent home with an infection brewing; you died a couple of days later--usually because Dr. Gosnell left a piece of your dead fetus in your womb. No worries, he'll get that when you come back for your next abortion.
But what was worse - ungodly worse - were the abortions themselves. Dr. Gosnell, though a licensed medical doctor, was not a certified abortionist. Nonetheless, he held himself out as an abortionist for over 30yrs, specializing in late term abortions (at least in Pennsylvania where late term could occur no later than 23 weeks and 6 days). Dr. Gosnell, however, in his office with broken and defective equipment, jury-rigged ultrasounds--faking the results so that women whose pregnancy had far exceeded the 23wk6d deadline would show a fetus within the permissible allowance. [Without going into the story, Gosnell's fake facts are his undoing. It is some pretty snazzy detective and legal work.] Court records show that Dr. Gosnell performed late term abortions on fetuses as late as 29.5wks and 34wks. But it was the method of the abortion that qualified as murder in the State of Pennsylvania. Over a three day period, Dr. Gosnell would induce the woman's labor, deliver the fetus alive (which at this point she was in her sixth -seventh month of pregnancy), then turn the fetus on its stomach take surgical scissors and stab them into the fetus' neck between the brain and spinal cord; thereby killing the fetus. It is described in the book as basically a decapitation.
The prosecutor stated in his closing argument made a compelling analogy that when we, as Americans, take our dying animals to the vet, the vet puts two drugs into our beloved animal. The first IV drip is to put our pet to sleep, and the second IV drip is to stop our pet's heart. We leave our pet at the vet for proper "waste management" of our pet's remains, and when we come back we pick up a discrete package. We know our pet was taken care of by professionals with care. We give our pets more care and respect than Dr. Gosnell gave to the Black and Brown women who sought his abortion services. We definitely give our pets more care and respect to than Dr. Gosnell gave to the Black and Brown fetuses he was entrusted to legally abort but chose instead to deliver--allow to breath, to cry, to kick, to live, a baby outside of its mother--and then heinously kill. Oh, and Dr. Gosnell did not contract with an outside waste management company for these fetuses. He stored them in milk jugs, gatorade bottles, any other bottles he had lying around and put them in the break room freezer and the basement freezer. And, when necessary he had the office staff flush fetus parts down the toilet until the toilet backed up, and ran the fetus parts down the garbage disposal. Yep, the garbage disposal.
We as women are so much better than what we have offered the world thus far. We divide ourselves with gender and identity politics, organizational agendas, and a need for protectionist laws that once enacted largely go unenforced to our own peril. After reading this book, my "lesson learned," at least when it comes to abortion, is that perhaps it is time to reframe the discussion. Rather than starting the abortion "argument" or "debate" as one of a right of privacy or woman's heath care or one of "Pro-Choice" v. "Pro-Live", it should be the following:
Abortion is state sanctioned murder of a fetus until the _______ week of the pregnancy because the state and the people of the state agree that a woman has a right to choose not to be a mother. As such, the woman has a right to quality medical care in the State, which means she has the right to seek and obtain the services of a licensed abortionist.
The point is that it is time to agree what abortion is and why a woman seeks to obtain the services. She does not owe any one an excuse or an apology, yet she is not going to the dentist either. As one learns from the licensed abortionist who gives testimony in the Gosnell case, regardless of one's stance on the issue, that fetus' heart is beating and even very early in the gestation of the pregnancy it is likely that it could be delivered and survive outside the mother. So, it isn't simply a mass of cells. That fetus is alive. We, as a community, are agreeing to State sanctioned murder, and for a limited period of time, that's okay. It is important to come to this community wide consensus. It is a means of accepting responsibility, sharing guilt, and absolution. It is what is missing in current laws, so there is a misplaced anger and resentment. I say we as a community must own it, embrace it, mourn it, then let go.
Likewise, Dr. Gosnell's case may or may not be the exception. There may be other state health agencies elsewhere failing to properly oversee and regulate abortion clinics. If so, how many other poor Black and Brown (hell, even poor white-privileged women) are suffering at the hands of unregulated abortionists and their untrained unlicensed staff. We just don't know. The sad truth is that the purpose of Roe v. Wade was to ensure that women were not relegated to unlawful "backroom abortions" or "coat hanger" abortions, but if state health agencies are not actually regulating these abortion facilities and the industry is not self regulating as it claims it is, then the vulnerable, the poor, the most marginalized are at the greatest risk of experiencing the horrors that Roe v. Wade was meant of prevent. But it looks like we might be headed back to the nasty beginning. So to protect theses women it is imperative that states pass laws requiring abortion clinics and the abortions have hospital privileges. It is not about setting road blocks to women getting legal abortions or making it more expensive for abortion doctors stay in practice. For the love of all thing right in this world, it is about making sure that when a woman seeks the services of an abortionist, the facility is clean, the equipment works, the instruments are sterilized, the staff is licensed to perform the tasked they are undertaking, and the doctor knows what he is doing. I would not want any woman to have Dr. Gosnell REUSE the same $1.29 disposable uterus scraper on her that he used on the last 4 women. YUK! If we as woman are going to fight for legislation, can we not fight for laws that say that our abortionists must have hospital privileges, must be insured with at least $10,000,000 in malpractice insurance for the doc and staff (regardless if staff is employed by doc or contracted from staffing agency), and whatever other requirements we as women think are necessary to make sure our health and vaginas are medically sound when the procedure is over.
Otherwise, we might was well have DIY abortion videos on youtube or pintrest. The results would probably be more successful, more hygienic, and the recovery would be easier on the women. Oh, and more than likely, no laws would be broken.
“Banality” was the word Arendt chose for Eichmann’s bureaucratic officiousness in the Third Reich’s Ministry of Death. That term, however, hardly fits the acts of a self-assured abortionist who regularly snipped the spinal cords of babies born alive, kept infants’ feet as trophies, ran an illegal prescription drug mill, and hired assistants who were totally unqualified to perform medical duties in a filthy, ramshackle facility. What’s surprising about Gosnell, however, is that his greed and macabre callousness existed alongside an often cheerful disposition that accompanied various acts of charity. Consequently, Gosnell had a good reputation among most of the poor community he both served and exploited.
Additionally, the authors’ prison interview with Gosnell gives the impression of a self-confident individual with at least moderate intellectual and artistic talent -- a man with a positive outlook on the future who enjoyed traveling abroad, namedropping (a friend of slain late-term abortionist, George Tiller), and playing Chopin on the piano. Nevertheless, Gosnell clearly overestimated his professional and intellectual abilities as indicated by his desire to represent himself in the trial at which he was ultimately found guilty on three counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison -- a sentence the doctor is confident will one day be overturned.
The term “banality” does comport, however, with the lassitude and indifference displayed by Pennsylvania’s abortion-oversight bureaucracy -- whose officials were all too willing to forego inspections, let gross violations slide, and dismiss even complaints associated with the deaths of two women Gosnell treated. Pennsylvania’s pro-choice Republican governor, Tom Ridge, comes in for special criticism by the authors for his “hands-off” policy vis-à-vis facility inspections -- though they also note that the state’s bureaucratic malfeasance extended well beyond Ridge’s tenure.
Accordingly, Gosnell’s late-term abortion house of horrors was exposed not by folks charged with the responsibility of making abortions “safe,” but rather by a cop investigating the source of some illegal prescription drugs. The unsanitary conditions in Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society
clinic -- e.g. cat feces, urine stench, milk jugs stuffed with aborted baby parts -- raised enough concerns to begin a probe of Gosnell’s “official” practice.
The death of another patient opened additional investigatory doors. This immigrant from Bhutan (mislabeled “the Indian woman” by Gosnell) had the misfortune of being heavily anesthetized by one of Gosnell’s unqualified assistants who took orders over the phone from the absent doctor. Lies told by Gosnell and his staff about the treatment of Karnamaya Mongar didn’t deflect Detective Jim Wood and district attorneys from finally attempting to determine how far Gosnell had gone beyond the illegal distribution of prescription drugs.
Eventually the prosecution brought seven murder charges against Gosnell for killing live babies plus another charge for Mongar’s death. Though the practice of “snipping” the spinal cords of late-term babies was common at Gosnell’s clinic, the prosecution required clear evidence that infants long since deceased had actually been alive before being murdered. However, since there was no other logical reason for utilizing this unusual procedure on aborted fetuses, the authors estimate that Gosnell, who specialized in late-term abortions, killed “hundreds” and possibly “thousands” of live babies over the decades.
McElhinney and McAleer’s work provides an extensive account of Gosnell’s defense, presented by one of the state’s premier attorneys, Jack McMahon. McMahon’s cross examination of a prosecution witness who occasionally performed legal abortions at a prestigious hospital contains some of the most damning testimony in the book. The defense lawyer argued skillfully that there is precious little difference between what Gosnell is accused of doing to live babies at his poor community facility and the legal approach to a live fetus (i.e. baby) after an attempted abortion in an upscale hospital. In the halting words of a respected female physician, they would “just keep it warm you know. It will eventually pass.”
The book also highlights other legal absurdities. In Pennsylvania, for example, it is legal to abort a fetus at 23 weeks and 6 days, even a minute before day 7, but it is a crime to carry out the same abortion a minute later -- a distinction akin to legally sucking the brain out of a baby a few inches before it exits the womb or illegally snipping its spinal cord moments later. Ironically, Gosnell, who regularly manipulated ultrasound data to fit abortions within the state’s legal limit, appears to have believed Pennsylvania permitted abortions up to 24 and a half weeks, as his incomplete and often inaccurate records regularly noted the age of late-term fetuses as 24.5 weeks.
Given the brutal nature of late-term abortions, it’s hardly surprising that our pro-choice national press devoted minimal time to Gosnell’s trial. After all, wall-to-wall coverage would doubtless raise profound questions about the morality of abortion and especially late-term abortions -- as it did with Gosnell’s pro-choice jury and the book’s once pro-choice author, Ann McElhinney. Only a prominent USA Today editorial penned by The Daily Beast’s Kirsten Powers prodded mainstream journalists into providing slightly more coverage.
This gripping and detailed book about Gosnell is a further attempt by McElhinny and McAleer to remedy that widespread media blackout. In the near future the same husband-wife team will release a feature-length film to further publicize the largely suppressed truth about “America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”
When one considers what this book reveals about the gruesome details, moral incoherence, and institutional trappings surrounding late-term abortions, it becomes easier to see how an arrogant, controlling doctor like Kermit Gosnell could continue for decades cheerfully snipping live babies’ spinal cords and committing medical malpractice on a grand scale. After all, Gosnell is precisely the type of person who would be drawn to such a macabre specialty, all the while deeming his den of depravity a service to the community.
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Mr Gosnell apparently considers himself innocent. Perhaps he has a point because apparently it is legal to inject a substance into the child while in the womb to bring an end to its life, before removing what is left, but it is illegal and abhorrent to end its life when delivered artificially by some other means. To me both of these practices are barbaric, and it is worth noting in the case of the United States they are carried out on an inductrial scale with more than sixty million abortions performed since the Supreme Court decision of 'Roe vs Wade which opened the floodgates in 1973.
It is surely true to state that both men and women have the same moral agency, in that case the people of the world who not only tolerate but actively support this dreadful ending of life stand in the dock. Yes, there are those who stand against the tide, in doing so they are gaining some traction in highlighting how sordid abortion is, but until it is brought to an end in all but a few cases, humanity stands condemned. Kermit Gosnell is not alone in his guilt. There are better way of preventing unwanted pregnancies, that these have not been brought to the fore is criminal, in this both men and women are complicit.
Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer are to be commended for bringing this story to a wider audience. Also worthy of commendation are those who worked to bring the case to court, less worthy are those who covered for the Mr Gosnell over the years, more guilty still are those whose duty it is is to bring to the attention of the public what is less than good about life.
nothing would stop you and this is at the expense of very vulnerable people. The storey is very well written and I'm not surprised it's not front page stuff. Too many would be implicated.