KERMIT GOSNELL, THE INFAMOUS PHILADELPHIA ABORTIONIST WHO KILLED LIVE BABIES, PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 85.

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Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted in 2013 of killing three babies who were born alive in a case that made nationwide headlines, has died. He was 85.
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson Maria Bivens said Gosnell died March 1 at a hospital outside the prison system. He had most recently been incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution-Smithfield, about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. A cause of death was not disclosed.
In addition to involuntary manslaughter for the drug overdose death of a patient who had had an abortion at his West Philadelphia clinic known as the "house of horrors," Gosnell was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder of the newborns.
The Gosnell case became a focal point in the national abortion debate nearly ten years before the US Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade.




