Pa. Abortion Doctor's Delaware Office Being Probed
Delaware state officials are investigating a Pennsylvania abortionist charged with infanticide, a family policy group confirmed.
Delaware Family Policy Council publicly commended the state Attorney General Monday for opening an investigation into Atlantic Women's Medical Services for its employment of Dr. Kermit Gosnell.
Gosnell was arrested in Philadelphia and charged with eight counts of murder by a Pennsylvania grand jury in the deaths of a woman and seven babies earlier this month.
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However, further checks into his background revealed that Gosnell also performed abortions at the Atlantic Women's Medical Services in Seaford, Del. Soon after Gosnell's arrest, several state groups including DFPC began lobbying for a federal probe.
"It is imperative that Attorney General [Beau] Biden act quickly to ensure the safety of Delaware residents," said Jordan Warfel, director of Life Issues for DFPC.
Warfel confirmed, "While the grand jury's investigation centered on Dr. Gosnell's practice in Philadelphia, he also practiced at Atlantic Women's Medical Services where he may still have associates in both clinics endangering the lives of women and children."
Biden spokesman Jason Miller told the Beaver County Times that the attorney general's office is conducting a "wide-ranging investigation" of Gosnell, but he had no immediate response to the council's statements.
Gosnell was arrested last month after a raid of his West Pennsylvania turned up horrible abuses of medical regulations. Grand Jury documents described his clinic as full of cats, blood stained furniture and bags and bottles of dismembered baby parts.
The staff was not medically trained, and Gosnell himself was not properly trained to perform abortions.
Grand Jury documents state, "The people who ran this sham medical practice included no doctors other than Gosnell himself, and not even a single nurse. Two of his employees had been to medical school, but neither of them were licensed physicians. They just pretended to be."
The documents also revealed that Gosnell had been denied membership to the National Abortion Federation, an association for abortion providers.
Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said of Gosnell, "He does not know how to do an abortion. He's not board certified [to do so]."
Interviews of his staff revealed that Gosnell may have been at fault in the death of a 41-year-old woman who died of cardiac arrest after an overdose of the narcotic Demerol. He was also charged with the murder of seven viable infants who were born alive and subsequently killed by cutting into the back of their necks with scissors and severing their spinal cord.
DFPC has also asked Biden and U.S. Attorney Charles Oberly to investigate Atlantic Women's Medical Services clinic director Leroy Brinkley. He allowed Gosnell to perform abortions at his clinic and may have tacitly allowed the Pa. doctor to perform illegal procedures at his clinic as well.
Also, another of Brinkley's employees, Arturo Apolinario, allowed his controlled substance license to lapse over a year ago.
"By allowing Dr. Gosnell to perform illegal abortions that ended the lives of unborn children in Delaware after 20 weeks, Atlantic Women's Medical Services has engaged in possible crimes. The clinic, its owner and staff must be investigated," urged Warfel.
