So as to the question of Kermit Gosnell, he's not someone I would catalog as an abortion doctor. He's someone I would say is a murderer. It's a fair point to say that he was someone who worked in the field of reproductive health, but what he actually did was not appropriate care. This would be like if there was a dentist killing patients at his dental office, and then we used him to argue that the entire field of dentistry is evil and murderous. Yeah, that'd be crazy. That'd be like if somebody thought that psychologists were trying to sabotage his entire career, so he built a religion about demonizing him. That'd be wild. So Gosnell's clinic had a long track record of citations for various complaints. None as serious as what he would actually end up being charged with, but things that should have been real red flags. He'd been sued a number of times, and ultimately in 2010, his clinic was raided by the FBI, working in conjunction with Pennsylvania State Police. The conditions they found were horrifying. Patients were subjected to completely unsanitary conditions in the clinic. Gosnell was employing unlicensed staff, and his surgical room was described as, quote, resembling a bad gas station bathroom.

When Alex is saying that some of the charges had been dropped, it's because the court felt like the evidence surrounding three of the counts of murder were not strong enough to pursue. The question came down to whether these babies were born alive. And in those three cases, the state could not definitively prove that, whereas they could in the other cases. Right, right, right, right. They weren't trying to give him a reprieve, nor did it really affect the legal position he was in. It's just a situation where we can't really prove this, but we can prove those.

Who was just a monster. That's not a story about abortion being a problem. That's a story of a fucking psychopath.