Bad Medicine: How Abortion and Its Political Protectors Have Corrupted Public Health
- Post by: Terrell Clemmons
- November 13, 2023
On Friday, October 20, 2023, an unusual exhibit opened in the art district of Columbus, Ohio. Following in the tradition of photojournalism, in which important images are made available to the public, “Evidence: The Exhibition” took the visitor through a photo-journey of high-definition images telling the story of the 2013 Kermit Gosnell case. Though he was neither an obstetrician nor a gynecologist, Kermit Gosnell operated the Philadelphia Women’s Medical Society, an abortion clinic in a low-income area of West Philadelphia. The story has been previously covered in the 2015 documentary, 3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy, and in the 2018 crowd-funded feature motion picture, Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer, produced by husband-and-wife journalist team Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer of the Unreported Story Society. McElhinny and McAleer were the creators of the Columbus exhibit. The Philadelphia “House of Horrors” Ironically, the abortion “House of Horrors,” as the clinic came to be known, was discovered quite by accident. Dr. Gosnell had been under investigation for running an illegal prescription drug racket in early 2010, when Tosha Lewis, an informant recruited from his staff, casually mentioned a woman dying at the clinic a few months back. Something about her death, Tosha said, “just wasn't right.” One of the narcotics investigators went to look up the police report, but there was none. This puzzle led to more questions, then to search warrants, and then ultimately to a coordinated raid that included narcotics investigators, the Pennsylvania Departments of State and Health, the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency, and the FBI—all told, a raid of more than 20 officials. What the officials walked into—what had been passing for decades as a medical facility—was indeed a veritable house of horrors. A cat had the run of the place, and the stench of cat feces, urine, and formaldehyde hung in the air. The
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