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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
by Ann McElhinney, Phelim McAleer
Warning: this book and probably the review is all kinds of triggery. Be warned.
When I started reading this book (that one of the women I worked with loaned me) I thought it was just a pro-life story. I almost never picked it up. Because for one, I'm tired of politics being beat over my head. I educate myself and make my own opinions. Beating me over the head just tends to tick me off and make me ignore whatever it is that you are saying.
But this.
I don't give two craps about whether you are pro-life or pro-choice..so let's get that out of the way first. This stinking book is going to give me nightmares for years. I almost wish I had never read it. BUT the world should have taken notice when it was going on. They should still take notice. I honestly COULD NOT wrap my brain around the fact that this was a supposed true life crime story. I had to stop and research and then still am having a hard time believing this is true.
In 2013..take note of that date. Not 1913..but 2013. Police entered into a women's health clinic because of a prescription narcotic ring that they had been investigating.
This place right here...
Not only did they find that the doctor, Kermit Barron Gosnell was supplying an unlimited supply of narcotics out randomly for a small cash fee. They found that recently a woman had died due to the care that she had received here.
Filthy conditions, two flea invested cats that were entering procedure rooms, urine and blood soaked equipment, the stench....and then the body parts.
Gosnell and his untrained staff had been performing abortions. Not just abortions (Don't start with the whole legality/morality of this-I ain't up to it) but late term abortions.
Now I'm not one to decide for another woman what should be done with her body, and this book and the story behind it doesn't really do that so calm down. I'm trying to figure out how to somewhat put into words the horrors of this stuff.
Gosnell charged the women up front (in cash) so that he would do the procedure for them. He mostly dealt with minority, poor and/or immigrants. So what he was doing wasn't really paid very much attention. He had some complaints. They got ignored.
When police went in he had remains of aborted infants feet saved in drink containers, he had stopped up toilets because body parts just got flushed. They were put down the garbage disposal.
Teenage girls were brought into his clinic, not wanting the abortion. Their moms/grandmothers brought them in. He and his staff would hold them down and drug them and do the procedure anyways. (I'm not including all the horrors that happened in that clinic in my review because I want them out of my mind right now.)
I just can't. I'm a woman. I work in public health. I see ALL kinds of stuff but this??? Why was the media not all over this? Because it's a hot subject. Abortion is a topic that you don't want to shed bad light on if you are pro-choice. BUT damn, this was cold blooded murders. Multiple murders.
I'm not going to share the horrific images that the book says exist and that when I searched for I found. I gagged almost the whole time. I'm ashamed that this happened. I'm ashamed that no one stood up for these women.
I will share this one of where the patients were placed until they could be made to get the heck out of the clinic so the next woman could take their spot.
When I started reading this book (that one of the women I worked with loaned me) I thought it was just a pro-life story. I almost never picked it up. Because for one, I'm tired of politics being beat over my head. I educate myself and make my own opinions. Beating me over the head just tends to tick me off and make me ignore whatever it is that you are saying.
But this.
I don't give two craps about whether you are pro-life or pro-choice..so let's get that out of the way first. This stinking book is going to give me nightmares for years. I almost wish I had never read it. BUT the world should have taken notice when it was going on. They should still take notice. I honestly COULD NOT wrap my brain around the fact that this was a supposed true life crime story. I had to stop and research and then still am having a hard time believing this is true.
In 2013..take note of that date. Not 1913..but 2013. Police entered into a women's health clinic because of a prescription narcotic ring that they had been investigating.
This place right here...
Not only did they find that the doctor, Kermit Barron Gosnell was supplying an unlimited supply of narcotics out randomly for a small cash fee. They found that recently a woman had died due to the care that she had received here.
Filthy conditions, two flea invested cats that were entering procedure rooms, urine and blood soaked equipment, the stench....and then the body parts.
Gosnell and his untrained staff had been performing abortions. Not just abortions (Don't start with the whole legality/morality of this-I ain't up to it) but late term abortions.
Now I'm not one to decide for another woman what should be done with her body, and this book and the story behind it doesn't really do that so calm down. I'm trying to figure out how to somewhat put into words the horrors of this stuff.
Gosnell charged the women up front (in cash) so that he would do the procedure for them. He mostly dealt with minority, poor and/or immigrants. So what he was doing wasn't really paid very much attention. He had some complaints. They got ignored.
When police went in he had remains of aborted infants feet saved in drink containers, he had stopped up toilets because body parts just got flushed. They were put down the garbage disposal.
Teenage girls were brought into his clinic, not wanting the abortion. Their moms/grandmothers brought them in. He and his staff would hold them down and drug them and do the procedure anyways. (I'm not including all the horrors that happened in that clinic in my review because I want them out of my mind right now.)
I just can't. I'm a woman. I work in public health. I see ALL kinds of stuff but this??? Why was the media not all over this? Because it's a hot subject. Abortion is a topic that you don't want to shed bad light on if you are pro-choice. BUT damn, this was cold blooded murders. Multiple murders.
I'm not going to share the horrific images that the book says exist and that when I searched for I found. I gagged almost the whole time. I'm ashamed that this happened. I'm ashamed that no one stood up for these women.
I will share this one of where the patients were placed until they could be made to get the heck out of the clinic so the next woman could take their spot.
