With a few notable exceptions, state and local government officials had completely failed to do their jobs. Official incompetence, bureaucratic inertia, neglect, and the desire to protect abortion from a harsh spotlight whatever the cost caused needless deaths and injuries. The grand jury's conclusion was damning: Kermit Gosnell murdered and maimed with impunity for thirty years because virtually no one did his job properly. Ann McElhinney
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The grand jury report concluded that the practice of abortion should not be a medical procedure performed in a hospital by licensed physicians. It was a mass murder and should be treated as such. The report contained evidence that the Gosnell clinic had been operating illegally for thirty years. The Philadelphia District Attorney, who was responsible for policing the law, should have been tipped off to the illegal practices at the clinic a long time ago. There were many other criminal acts committed by Gosnell but this report focused on what happened inside the clinic and who knew about it.

Source: Gosnell: The Untold Story Of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

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