A woman who interned at an abortion clinic for years starting when she was 15 testified in court Thursday about seeing at least five aborted babies moving, breathing, and in once case, ‘screeching.’
Ashley Baldwin, now 22, recalled the horrifying detail before a jury at the murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, her employer at the Women’s Medical Society clinic in Pennsylvania.
Baldwin said she helped perform countless late-term procedures where aborted babies would show obvious signs of life outside the womb.
‘They just looked like regular babies,’ Baldwin said.
One baby was so big that Gosnell joked to her, ‘This baby is going to walk me home,’ the Philadelphia Inquirerreported.
Gosnell, 72, is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of seven infants born alive during abortions.
He allegedly killed the babies by cutting their spinal cords with scissors.
If found guilty, Gosnell faces a possible death sentence.
Baldwin recalled seeing the doctor use scissors to ‘snip’ the necks of newborns who were moving outside the womb.
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