The Kermit Gosnell of Colorado

How is stabbing a 30-week-old baby in the heart with a poison-filled syringe before birth morally different from ‘snipping’ a 30-week-old baby’s neck moments after birth?

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Dr. Warren Hern in an exam room inside his clinic in Boulder, Colo., January 31, 2022

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Ten years ago this month, Philadelphia abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted on three counts of murder for killing infants with a pair of scissors moments after they had been born.

In addition to the murder convictions for what Gosnell described as “snippings” and his assistant more accurately called “beheadings,” Gosnell was also convicted on 21 counts of killing babies in utero later than 24 weeks of pregnancy, the legal abortion limit established under Pennsylvania’s 1982 Abortion Control Act.

John McCormack

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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