Why convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell still matters – and what the media still won’t say

By: SBA Team, originally published March 26, 2026, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America

Infamous Pennsylvania abortionist and convicted murder Kermit Gosnell  died this month, 16 years after the shocking trial that almost didn’t make national news. He was 85, serving life in prison.

Who was Kermit Gosnell?

On the Senate floor in 2024, pro-abortion Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), ironically,  suggested people Google Kermit Gosnell.  Take his advice – but steel your stomach.

Gosnell’s abortion technique frequently entailed delivering babies alive – “ still moving, whimpering or breathing ” – and “snipping” their spinal cords with scissors. He was convicted on three counts of murder (though the true number is hundreds or thousands) and multiple charges of violating Pennsylvania’s late-term abortion law.

See Actual Photo of “Baby Boy A” [Warning – Graphic]

For 30 years Gosnell got away with murder  – it was suspicion of drug trafficking that finally brought him down.

Even investigators weren’t prepared for Gosnell’s “Women’s Medical Society.” The  nearly 300-page grand jury report  describes a true house of horrors: Unsanitary instruments. Cat feces. Baby feet in jars. Intact babies in the freezer, remains in milk cartons…“The only thing Gosnell seemed to care about was the cash he raked in from his illegal operation,” around $10-15,000 daily.

Not only babies

The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd  notes:

When  Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old refugee, overdosed on cheap painkillers given by Gosnell’s unlicensed staff, Gosnell wasn’t even present. His defibrillator was broken. By the time paramedics arrived, Mongar was gone.

All-systems failure

The grand jury savaged the National Abortion Federation, which rejected Gosnell’s membership application after seeing his facility – but never informed authorities.  Not only that : Under “pro-choice” Republican Gov. Tom Ridge, annual inspections of abortion facilities ended, favoring “access” to abortion instead. Even after Karnamaya Mongar died, the state health department didn’t bother – their chief counsel stating flatly at the trial,  “People die.”

A “soldier” against poverty?

Gosnell’s attorney  spoke  of “prosecutorial lynching”:  “This is a targeted, elitist and racist prosecution of a doctor who’s done nothing but give (back) to the poor and the people of West Philadelphia.”   Contemporary reports  indicate Gosnell saw himself as a pillar of the community:

We shudder – but similar views still have high-profile sympathizers today, like Janet Yellen to Sen. Tim Scott shortly after the  Dobbs  leak:

Media blackout

At first, the case only drew attention from area reporters and small blogs. That began to change when Bucks County Courier Times reporter JD Mullane  posted a photo  of the empty courtroom press gallery:

National columnist Kirsten Powers  blasted the media:

When Mollie Hemingway called out The Washington Post, the now-famous reply was that this story was merely  “local crime.”  (The reporter has since moved on to The New York Times.)

An old saying in journalism goes, “If it bleeds, it leads.”  So why the silence?

Here, too, the grand jury’s conclusion is revealing: “We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities,  and because the subject was the political football of abortion. ”

When it  was  covered – such as years later when  independent filmmakers  wanted to run ads – outlets like then-taxpayer-funded NPR continued to censor the facts,  refusing to call Gosnell (accurately) an abortionist.

Not an outlier

Corporate media still won’t acknowledge the truth: Gosnell is hardly alone in the abortion industry.  He’s just one of the few who went to jail.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business,  attempted damage control  following the trial. But only two years later,  undercover videos exposed their callous harvest and sale of baby body parts. And in 2019, the  hoarded remains of more than 2,200 aborted children  were discovered on abortionist Ulrich “George” Klopfer’s Indiana property only after his death.

Today, politicians still ignore, cover up, or try to explain away abortion industry horrors – like  Tim Walz,  Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro,  Ralph Northam  or  D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Contrast Gosnell’s crimes with the case of the  D.C. Five , whose brutalized but well-developed bodies – bearing injuries consistent with illegal partial-birth abortions, a federal crime – were discovered along with 100+ more aborted children in a medical waste box four years ago this week.

Though  congressional legislation  has been introduced, to date, D.C. has conducted:

• No investigation
• No autopsies
• No arrests
• No trial

Late-term abortionist Cesare Santangelo, who was caught admitting he’d do nothing to save a baby that was born alive, remains free – even  showing up for “work” in an arm cast  – while pro-life activists who peacefully protest late-term abortion  were imprisoned under President Biden  until President Trump pardoned them.

Break the silence

Today, most people still won’t hear about America’s biggest serial killer on the news. Gosnell’s  Associated Press obituary  isn’t even 250 words long. Once again, citizens of good conscience must speak up and demand that the awful truth about Kermit Gosnell – and most importantly, the humanity of all abortion victims – not get buried with him.

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