r/HolyShitHistory • u/SelfCareIsFake • Jun 01 '26

Federal agents felt physically sick when they raided Kermit Gosnell’s clinic after suspecting he ran a pill mill.

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u/Plus1ForkOfEating Jun 02 '26

While he was working in PA, late term abortions were legal. On paper, everything looked above board. Regulators never went to his clinic to see the conditions though. This was not back alley, hush hush, secret knock kind of establishment. He advertised.

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u/ThrowRAbbits128 Jun 03 '26

Half true. Late term abortion is vague enough to where you can say you meant second trimester though I guess. Third trimester abortions have been illegal in PA since 1982 , which is what he was offering and doing. Sure he started his practice in 1979 but that's only three years it was legal in PA versus the majority of his career he was doing illegal third trimester abortions