The jury has been selected and testimony is scheduled to begin Monday in the murder trial of West Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Gosnell is charged with more than 30 criminal counts including the murder of seven newborn infants and a female patient.

Learn more about what investigators found inside Gosnell’s West Philadelphia abortion center by watching this short documentary:

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Kermit Gosnell’s horrific abortion practices shocked the world in 2011 when authorities unveiled the tragedies that took place inside the West Philadelphia Women’s Medical Society.

Pro-abortion advocates and abortion facilities were quick to distance themselves from Gosnell. They claimed his murderous and abusive practices are the exception, not the norm.

But are they really? Here are just a few examples (we could site more) of similar things happening in the U.S.:

Gosnell allegedly ignored young women who changed their minds and no longer wanted abortions. He injured countless women in botched abortions.

In a Colorado lawsuit filed last month, a woman alleges that a Planned Parenthood forced her to have an abortion after she changed her mind. What’s more, the abortionist botched the procedure and sent her home. Several days later, the woman had to have emergency surgery.

Gosnell operated a squalid abortion facility with the blood-stained furniture and medical waste.

A Michigan abortion facility was recently closed down for similar violations: blood-stained walls, unsterilized equipment, and used medical supplies like syringes left in the open.

Gosnell discriminated against minorities, reserving a separate, less squalid room for white women.

Last summer, abortionist Ron Virmani was videotaped saying that “ugly black babies” should be aborted to save tax money and prevent gun violence.

And a Life Dynamics report finds that the abortion industry targets blacks and Latinos by placing abortion facilities in communities with the highest minority populations.

As a result of these heinous practices, states are passing laws to hold abortion facilities accountable for women’s health and safety. In Pennsylvania, abortion centers now must be regularly inspected and must meet the same requirements as other outpatient surgical facilities.

Unfortunately, the most common tragedy of all in Gosnell’s abortion practice gets the least attention.

Gosnell’s practices show a complete disregard for human life. He delivered babies alive and then snipped their spinal cords with scissors. He cared nothing for his patients, allowing untrained and unlicensed medical staff to give anesthesia and use unsterilized equipment. These practices resulted in Gosnell being charged with murdering a woman and seven newborn babies.

Though some abortion centers may hold themselves to higher health and safety standards, they share Gosnell’s disregard for human life in the womb. It doesn’t matter how clean or law-abiding these abortion centers are they still are destroying unique preborn human lives.

In the midst of the Gosnell scandal, let’s not forget about the thousands of preborn babies who are legally killed every day in abortions.

Help us work to protect life from the moment of conception to natural death. Click here to learn how you can get involved in protecting women and preborn babies from the tragedy of abortion.

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director

Editor’s note: This editorial also appears on Pennlive.com, the website of The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News. To show support for Gosnell’s victims, born and unborn, consider posting a comment below the article by clicking here.

His alleged crimes went undetected for years. He was the go-to guy in the neighborhood for Oxycotin and other addictive drugs—an illegal business which investigators say brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

And he was also known as the doc to go to for extremely late, late-term abortions (more than 24 weeks’ gestation). At times, those “late-term abortions” turned into the killing of live infants, according to a grand jury report that reads like the script from a horror movie.

When live babies were delivered, he allegedly stuck scissors in the back of the babies’ necks and severed the spinal cords, killing them. The grand jury estimates that Gosnell engaged in hundreds of such killings, but charges could be brought in only a handful of cases, because he conveniently destroyed files to cover his tracks. The suspect, who, if convicted, might be described as the John Wayne Gacy of West Philadelphia, cleverly hid evidence—but not all of it.

Forgive the graphic nature of the following description, but it must be included to show the depravity behind Gosnell’s abortion center walls: A search team found the parts of dead babies nearly everywhere—in the refrigerator, in the freezer, and in containers which would ordinarily carry milk, orange juice, even cat food.

And then there were the jars of severed baby feet.

Add to this horror the maiming of grown female patients. The grand jury described him as a “butcher of women.” As members of the grand jury declared in their chilling report, “Dr. Gosnell didn’t just kill babies. He was also a deadly threat to mothers.”

During a debate at a college campus, a representative from Planned Parenthood suggested that I would not know the name of the female patient Gosnell was charged with killing—the supposition being that pro-lifers do not really care about women. Without hesitation, I answered, “Karnamaya Mongar.”

She was a 41-year-old refugee from Nepal, according to the grand jury report. After a few hours in this house of horrors, she stopped breathing. Gosnell could not revive her because his defibrillator was broken. When the paramedics finally arrived, the hallways were so cluttered that it took them 20 minutes to get the patient out of the building.

She died.

How many other women died as a result of Gosnell’s lethal form of medicine, we’ll never know.

Gosnell’s case is finally working its way through the Philadelphia justice system, and Pennsylvania now has a law, Act 122, to ensure that abortion facilities follow the safety standards of outpatient surgery centers. But it is too late for the many women who say they suffered as a result of Gosnell’s brutal practice.

And what of those babies who were routinely killed at the Women’s Medical Society?

No one knows their names.