Kermit Gosnell Research Paper

Kermit Gosnell is a Philadelphia based doctor. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, he attended Central High School where he excelled as a student and went on to graduate from Dickinson College and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical School. He gave back to his community in many ways, including spending many years performing medicine for the poor and even opened a rehab clinic for drug addicts in the Mantua section of West Philadelphia (Slobodizan, 2013). He eventually went on to find his niche in the abortion field and helped out women who were mostly poor, minority, and immigrants. Perhaps what he was most well known for is the fact that he performed many late-term abortions on these women. Late term abortions are heavily …show more content…
This is when the baby is born and then essentially killed. This raised a lot of issues, most notably whether he was performing abortions of committing murder. Most people believed that this type of abortion was occurring well past the, “gray area,” of whether the fetus is a living being or not. There were also some issues on whether the clinic that he was running was legitimate. These started to take shape when an untrained and unlicensed clinic worker gave Karnamaya Mongar, a woman who came into Gosnell’s clinic in 2009, an overdose of painkillers, which caused Mongar to die (Who is Gosnell?, …show more content…
He is right where he belongs, which is in prison serving a life sentence. I cannot even begin to think of a reason that he may have for doing what he did. His actions were morally and ethically wrong and luckily he is now paying the price for them. Gosnell is essentially a murderer and violated state abortion laws countless times in his medical career. In no way, shape, or form is what he did correct, he lost sight of the importance of life a performed unforgivable actions. Whether it was out of greed, or whether he thought what he was doing was right, Gosnell deserves the punishment that has been given to