"House of Horrors"

unveiled in Pennsylvania.  Content warning--this was brutal.  AP reports:

A doctor whose abortion clinic was described as a filthy, foul-smelling "house of horrors" that was overlooked by regulators for years was charged Wednesday with murder, accused of delivering seven babies alive and then using scissors to kill them.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell was also charged with murder in the death of a woman who suffered an overdose of painkillers while awaiting an abortion.

In a nearly 300-page grand jury report filled with ghastly, stomach-turning detail, prosecutors said Pennsylvania regulators ignored complaints of barbaric conditions at Gosnell's clinic, which catered to poor, immigrant and minority women in the city's impoverished West Philadelphia section.

Prosecutors called the case a "complete regulatory collapse."

"Pennsylvania is not a Third World country," the district attorney's office declared in the report. "There were several oversight agencies that stumbled upon and should have shut down Kermit Gosnell long ago."

Gosnell, 69, was arrested and charged with eight counts of murder in all. Nine of Gosnell's employees — including his wife, a cosmetologist who authorities say performed abortions — also were charged.

Prosecutors said Gosnell made millions of dollars over three decades performing thousands of dangerous abortions, many of them illegal late-term procedures. His clinic had no trained nurses or medical staff other than Gosnell, a family physician not certified in obstetrics or gynecology, prosecutors said.

At least two women died from the procedures, while scores more suffered perforated bowels, cervixes and uteruses, authorities said....

If you have a strong stomach or need some reason to March for Life this year, read on.

For any woman who needs help healing from an abortion and coming to learn that God offers his forgiveness and has never stopped loving them, see the Silent No More site or the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing website, among many others. For stories from other women struggling after an abortion, see Life After Abortion.  There is hope! There is love! There is forgiveness--never doubt it!

The Pennsylvania case is not an isolated incident. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the founders of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), changed his mind after viewing an ultrasound of the procedure he was performing.

Later, he became a Catholic, as recounted in The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind. In that book, he talks about a number of similar cases of egregious malpractice by abortionists and clinic workers, and explains the fundamental dynamics of the abortion industry that makes such malpractice so prevalent.  The main issues--the ease of the procedure from a technical standpoint, which opens it up to almost any doctor with some bare level of competence; the large amount of money to be made in the practice; the undesirable nature of the work, even for many pro-choice doctors who still would rather perform almost any other procedure rather than abortion; and the lack of scruples of those who tend to take up the practice as a result of the above.

For more on the nature of the abortion industry, see Blood Money  (trailer follows).