From the New York Post [caution tabloid]:
Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted in 2013 of killing three babies who were born alive in a case that made nationwide headlines, has died. He was 85. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections spokesperson Maria Bivens said Gosnell died March 1 at a hospital outside the prison system. He had most recently been incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution-Smithfield, about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. A cause of death was not disclosed. Former employees testified the doctor — who presented himself as a helper of poor and desperate women — routinely performed illegal abortions past Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit; that he delivered babies who were still moving, whimpering or breathing; and that he and his assistants dispatched the newborns by “snipping” their spines, as he referred to it.