‘I felt like a fireman in hell. I couldn’t put out all the fires.” That’s a quote from Stephen Massoff, an employee of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist. Massoff was operating illegally as a doctor in Gosnell’s clinic. At Gosnell’s trial, Massoff was testifying to being without Gosnell in the clinic routinely as they were overmedicating women for late-term abortions. Babies were born alive and necks were snipped and women died there. It was, in fact, a hellish scene.
I revisit the 2013 trial because of the remarkable timeliness of a play in New York City, Oh Gosnell: A Show about the Truth. The title is a response to the abortion comedy also in the city, Oh God, A Show about Abortion, from one of the writers of the Amazon production The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Amazon just announced that it will be paying for employees travel from states that choose to put some protections in law for the unborn and women, so that’s not much of a leap.
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