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Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer Hardcover – Jan. 24 2017

by Ann McElhinney (Author), Phelim McAleer (Author)

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He is America’s most prolific serial killer. And yet Kermit Gosnell was no obvious criminal. The abortion doctor was a pillar of his community, an advocate for women’s “reproductive health,” and a respected member of Philadelphia’s professional elite. His Women’s Medical Society Clinic looked like admirable community outreach by a brave doctor committed to upholding women’s rights. Meanwhile, inside the filthy building, Gosnell was casually murdering born-alive infants, butchering women, and making a macabre collection of severed babies’ feet. His accomplices in crime were a staff of dropouts, drug addicts, and unlicensed medical professionals posing as doctors. But even more important to his decades-long crime spree were his enablers in the outside world―from the state bureaucrats who had copious evidence that Gosnell was breaking the law but did nothing to the politicians whose fervent support for abortion rights kept health inspectors away. The “pro-choice” political, bureaucratic, and media establishment smiled on Gosnell―and gave him carte blanche to kill. Even law enforcement seemed to not care. Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit received a complaint about Gosnell years before he was caught, gave it a cursory look, and ignored the evidence. Two women and hundreds of babies died after they closed the case. Luckily, Detective Jim Wood―a narcotics detective―opened a drug case against Gosnell. What he found when he served his warrant left even the most grizzled members of the police force stunned. Now Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, the veteran investigative journalists and filmmakers behind FrackNation, dig into Gosnell’s crimes. A record-breaking crowdfunding campaign financed their Gosnell movie starring young Superman Dean Cain, but in the research for the film, McElhinney and McAleer uncovered fascinating and previously unreported revelations that couldn’t be included in the film. Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer contains the full results of their investigation.

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Hollywood could not conjure up a villain more barbaric and cold-blooded than true-life serial killer Kermit Gosnell. Investigative journalists Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer take you face to face with Philadelphia’s baby butcher in this gripping exposé. But the story is especially chilling because he did not act alone. The true horror lies in Gosnell’s ghoulish gallery of enablersfeckless government bureaucrats, abortion radicals, and an AWOL media. McElhinney and McAleer are unflinching torchbearers of truth. This book is a public service.”
Michelle Malkin, author of Culture of Corruption and Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild

Gosnell reads like a literary Criminal Minds. This deftly-written, gripping, and graphic account of the arrest and grand jury investigation into Kermit Gosnell’s nightmarish house of horrors reveals the truth about the monster who murdered with no compunction and kept ghastly trophies of his victims. Gosnell thoroughly reports the facts the mainstream press largely ignored: that, for years, complaints about unsafe conditions and even fatal malpractice at Gosnell’s clinic were met with zero action, so concerned were the powers-that-be with protecting unfettered access to abortion. Gosnell indicts a system that, in the name of women’s reproductive health,” failed to do anything to protect the women and born-alive infants who were slaughtered at 3801 Lancaster Avenue.”
Maria McFadden Maffucci, editor, Human Life Review

Ann and Phelim courageously tell the heart-wrenching, shocking story previously ignored, one that every American needs to read. With each page, abortionist Kermit Gosnell takes his place in American history as a monster whose victims were the most innocent and helpless among us.”
Katie Pavlich, editor, Townhall.com

In this historic book, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer meticulously record the harrowing true-crime story of Kermit Gosnell’s barbaric abortion and infanticide business. Every American needs to read Gosnell, because the atrocities he committed, with the knowledge and support of public authorities, demand that we answer what we really believe about human dignity and the law’s equal protection for the most vulnerable.”
David Daleiden, the undercover reporter behind the Center for Medical Progress videos that exposed Planned Parenthood’s baby parts business

Warning: once you start reading this, you will not be able to put it down. It will grip you from the first page and not let you go. No matter what pre-judgments you may have when you begin, they will be challenged.”
Connie Marshner, pro-life strategist and CEO of Connie Marshner & Associates

About the Author

Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney are investigative journalists, filmmakers and screenwriters. McAleer has worked as a journalist in Belfast covering the Northern Ireland conflict for The Irish News. He was a crime correspondent for the UK Sunday Times and based in Romania he was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and The Economist magazine. He is a regular columnist for the Irish Times and the New York Post.

Ann McElhinney has written for the Irish Times, the UK Sunday Times and produced documentaries for the BBC, CBC (Canada) and RTE (Ireland). they produced and directed the documentary FrackNation (2013).

McAleer and McElhinney are originally from Ireland and are now living in Los Angeles. They produced and co-wrote Gosnell, a feature film starring Dean Cain (Lois & Clark) to be released in 2017. They are married.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery Publishing (Jan. 24 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1621574555
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1621574552
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 567 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm

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Abortion vs murderer

Reviewed in Canada on July 7, 2019

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I read the book with such revulsion as it brings out very well how someone can get away with murder in our society, not be held to responsibility, inspection and compliance. The lines between life and murder are so murky that it enables those whose intensions might be so called good. The market is so lucerative that if you were greedy
nothing would stop you and this is at the expense of very vulnerable people. The storey is very well written and I'm not surprised it's not front page stuff. Too many would be implicated.

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Rethinking what we've been told....

Reviewed in Canada on February 16, 2017

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Professionally written. Reveals the callousness and sheer audacity of a self described intelligent man, who commits murder daily, is unapologetic and has an entire system set up around him to hide and protect what he does. It is almost unbelievable what happened but court testimony proves otherwise. The hypocrisy of the media is shown, and would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. It uncovers the raw. and often horrific. details inherent to the abortion industry and those determined to protect it, no matter the cost. The facts of the Gosnell Case made me irritated that I was manipulated by our media and our government by their lack of coverage, oversight, transparency and truth. It's time to rethink what we've been told to think.

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R Irwin

Four Stars

Reviewed in Canada on March 31, 2018

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Very disturbing but well researched and contains important information for the reader.

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Lucky Gem

Compelling read; page-turner; made me cry a few times

Reviewed in Canada on November 17, 2018

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This is the first book I have completed reading after so many years of not reading a book. It is hard to put down. I cried a few times while reading this book, not just for the babies who were born alive then killed, but also for the women who came to Gosnell for help but we're taken advantage of and victimized instead. Highly recommended, whether you are pro-choice or pro-life.

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G.W.

The facts uncovered are almost unbelievable - a brutal mass murderer and his accomplices were allowed to do their dirty business

Reviewed in Canada on March 23, 2017

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The book is diligently researched and well written. The facts uncovered are almost unbelievable - a brutal mass murderer and his accomplices were allowed to do their dirty business for decades, while the authorities looked the other way or even covered it up and the corrupt mass media refuses to report it. One wonders what other politically correct atrocities are going on. A must-read book.

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Anne Shoemaker

The truth about the abortion industry and how it protects itself.

Reviewed in Canada on December 5, 2018

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It is a very well written book and opened my eyes to the whole abortion industry. It is difficult to read sometimes because of the content but it should be read by a lot more people.

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Marg Sewell

A story that needs telling. Does not let emotion ...

Reviewed in Canada on March 27, 2017

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A story that needs telling. Does not let emotion get in the way of the facts. We should be informed about this type of "healthcare" for women. Where is the outrage and concern for vulnerable women and their children?

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sherri corbin

amazing true story so glad somebody had the guts to ...

Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2017

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amazing true story so glad somebody had the guts to put this out there the press should have been on it the city knew it all knew it ,makes me sick we are so bought out with baby corpse,MUST READ BOOK!!!

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Diego

Muy buena pelicula! Vale la pena verla.

Reviewed in Mexico on June 14, 2021

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Muy interesante el tema. Excelente película.

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Romain

Not a good read

Reviewed in France on March 27, 2020

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That's just not a good read. Confusing, goes one way, another, comes back, re-says what has already been said,...
Plus the lie about "the most prolific serial killer". He killed at most 4 persons, 3 being the result of abortion. If you consider those abortions murders, how come the mothers aren't in jail for paying and ordering an execution?
Every single book about killers love to pretend it's "the most prolific", but it just isn't.
I won't even bother finishing this bad book.

paula

Ottimo film

Reviewed in Italy on November 21, 2019

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jh

A glance behind the curtain one I won't forget in a hurry

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2018

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Truly horrifying it's about time the world knew how the abortion clinics murder and dispose of babies. If there is a heartbeat the child lives and they stop those beating hearts in the most vilest way

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Do Black and Brown Lives Truly Matter

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2017

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Disturbing. Disgusting. Devastating.
Amazing. Exhilarating. Awakening.

First and foremost this is a book about manner and means in which (i) Dr. Kermit Gosnell engaged in his long history murder; (ii) the number of persons who aided him in his gruesome acts, whether motivated by greed or callous disregard for human life; (iii) State medical agencies that had multiple opportunities to intervene over decades but failed to do so either from incompetence, laziness, or an outright determination to coverup Dr. Gosnell's heinous crimes because his crimes only affected forgettable poor black and brown girls; and (iv) when Dr. Gosnell was final arrested and brought forth to trial, the reasons why the "main stream press" chose ignore the story.

Many will argue that this book and the Gosnell case is an indictment on abortion, but it is a shortsighted argument. The Gosnell case really asks whether the lives of black and brown women and the live fetuses Dr. Gosnell delivered ALIVE then decapitated truly matter. Simply stated, women from the urban community in Philadelphia were the main clientele of Dr. Gosnell's abortion practice. His office was disgusting. My stomach turns and my heart breaks for any woman desperate enough to utilize his office to have such an emotional and physically invasive procedure performed. I will leave the details for those who choose to read the book but you will truly understand the "house of horrors" phrase once you get through with the passage. Needless to say, for those women who make it through the front waiting room, the procedure room is worse. If you were lucky, you did not wake up during your abortion. If you did wake up, Dr. Gosnell might punch you in the hip, the stomach, the legs, or the face. If you were really unlucky, you did not wake up at all. Worse yet, you woke up sort of and were sent home with an infection brewing; you died a couple of days later--usually because Dr. Gosnell left a piece of your dead fetus in your womb. No worries, he'll get that when you come back for your next abortion.

But what was worse - ungodly worse - were the abortions themselves. Dr. Gosnell, though a licensed medical doctor, was not a certified abortionist. Nonetheless, he held himself out as an abortionist for over 30yrs, specializing in late term abortions (at least in Pennsylvania where late term could occur no later than 23 weeks and 6 days). Dr. Gosnell, however, in his office with broken and defective equipment, jury-rigged ultrasounds--faking the results so that women whose pregnancy had far exceeded the 23wk6d deadline would show a fetus within the permissible allowance. [Without going into the story, Gosnell's fake facts are his undoing. It is some pretty snazzy detective and legal work.] Court records show that Dr. Gosnell performed late term abortions on fetuses as late as 29.5wks and 34wks. But it was the method of the abortion that qualified as murder in the State of Pennsylvania. Over a three day period, Dr. Gosnell would induce the woman's labor, deliver the fetus alive (which at this point she was in her sixth -seventh month of pregnancy), then turn the fetus on its stomach take surgical scissors and stab them into the fetus' neck between the brain and spinal cord; thereby killing the fetus. It is described in the book as basically a decapitation.

The prosecutor stated in his closing argument made a compelling analogy that when we, as Americans, take our dying animals to the vet, the vet puts two drugs into our beloved animal. The first IV drip is to put our pet to sleep, and the second IV drip is to stop our pet's heart. We leave our pet at the vet for proper "waste management" of our pet's remains, and when we come back we pick up a discrete package. We know our pet was taken care of by professionals with care. We give our pets more care and respect than Dr. Gosnell gave to the Black and Brown women who sought his abortion services. We definitely give our pets more care and respect to than Dr. Gosnell gave to the Black and Brown fetuses he was entrusted to legally abort but chose instead to deliver--allow to breath, to cry, to kick, to live, a baby outside of its mother--and then heinously kill. Oh, and Dr. Gosnell did not contract with an outside waste management company for these fetuses. He stored them in milk jugs, gatorade bottles, any other bottles he had lying around and put them in the break room freezer and the basement freezer. And, when necessary he had the office staff flush fetus parts down the toilet until the toilet backed up, and ran the fetus parts down the garbage disposal. Yep, the garbage disposal.

We as women are so much better than what we have offered the world thus far. We divide ourselves with gender and identity politics, organizational agendas, and a need for protectionist laws that once enacted largely go unenforced to our own peril. After reading this book, my "lesson learned," at least when it comes to abortion, is that perhaps it is time to reframe the discussion. Rather than starting the abortion "argument" or "debate" as one of a right of privacy or woman's heath care or one of "Pro-Choice" v. "Pro-Live", it should be the following:

Abortion is state sanctioned murder of a fetus until the _______ week of the pregnancy because the state and the people of the state agree that a woman has a right to choose not to be a mother. As such, the woman has a right to quality medical care in the State, which means she has the right to seek and obtain the services of a licensed abortionist.

The point is that it is time to agree what abortion is and why a woman seeks to obtain the services. She does not owe any one an excuse or an apology, yet she is not going to the dentist either. As one learns from the licensed abortionist who gives testimony in the Gosnell case, regardless of one's stance on the issue, that fetus' heart is beating and even very early in the gestation of the pregnancy it is likely that it could be delivered and survive outside the mother. So, it isn't simply a mass of cells. That fetus is alive. We, as a community, are agreeing to State sanctioned murder, and for a limited period of time, that's okay. It is important to come to this community wide consensus. It is a means of accepting responsibility, sharing guilt, and absolution. It is what is missing in current laws, so there is a misplaced anger and resentment. I say we as a community must own it, embrace it, mourn it, then let go.

Likewise, Dr. Gosnell's case may or may not be the exception. There may be other state health agencies elsewhere failing to properly oversee and regulate abortion clinics. If so, how many other poor Black and Brown (hell, even poor white-privileged women) are suffering at the hands of unregulated abortionists and their untrained unlicensed staff. We just don't know. The sad truth is that the purpose of Roe v. Wade was to ensure that women were not relegated to unlawful "backroom abortions" or "coat hanger" abortions, but if state health agencies are not actually regulating these abortion facilities and the industry is not self regulating as it claims it is, then the vulnerable, the poor, the most marginalized are at the greatest risk of experiencing the horrors that Roe v. Wade was meant of prevent. But it looks like we might be headed back to the nasty beginning. So to protect theses women it is imperative that states pass laws requiring abortion clinics and the abortions have hospital privileges. It is not about setting road blocks to women getting legal abortions or making it more expensive for abortion doctors stay in practice. For the love of all thing right in this world, it is about making sure that when a woman seeks the services of an abortionist, the facility is clean, the equipment works, the instruments are sterilized, the staff is licensed to perform the tasked they are undertaking, and the doctor knows what he is doing. I would not want any woman to have Dr. Gosnell REUSE the same $1.29 disposable uterus scraper on her that he used on the last 4 women. YUK! If we as woman are going to fight for legislation, can we not fight for laws that say that our abortionists must have hospital privileges, must be insured with at least $10,000,000 in malpractice insurance for the doc and staff (regardless if staff is employed by doc or contracted from staffing agency), and whatever other requirements we as women think are necessary to make sure our health and vaginas are medically sound when the procedure is over.

Otherwise, we might was well have DIY abortion videos on youtube or pintrest. The results would probably be more successful, more hygienic, and the recovery would be easier on the women. Oh, and more than likely, no laws would be broken.

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