{"id":81693,"date":"2026-03-24T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81693"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:45:10","slug":"notorious-abortion-doctor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/notorious-abortion-doctor-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious Abortion Doctor Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">[caution tabloid]:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/05\/13\/abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnell-found-guilty-of-killing-3-babies-born-alive\/\">convicted in 2013<\/a> of killing three babies who were born alive in a case that made nationwide headlines, has died. He was 85.\u00a0Pennsylvania 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 \u2014 who presented himself as a helper of poor and desperate women \u2014 routinely performed illegal abortions past Pennsylvania\u2019s 24-week limit; that he delivered babies who were still moving, whimpering or breathing; and that he and his assistants dispatched the newborns by \u201csnipping\u201d their spines, as he referred to it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774341910\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Notorious Abortion Doctor Dies\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post\u00a0[caution tabloid]: Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was\u00a0convicted in 2013 of killing three babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}