Contact: Charlie Butts, Source: OneNewsNow.com
The wife of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell will follow her husband to prison for her role in the death of a patient at her husband's abortion clinic.
Micaiah Bilger of the Pennsylvania Pro-life Federation says Pearl Gosnell was a cosmetologist who had undergone "very little" medical training.
"She was trained by her husband," Bilger explains, "but I would put that training in quotes, because none of Gosnell's staff was properly medically trained or licensed."
In a plea deal, Pearl Gosnell, 51, pleaded guilty to racketeering and performing an illegal abortion past Pennsylvania's 24-week limit, the Associated Press reports. She told the court her husband told her the abortions were legal.
According to Bilger, Pearl Gosnell performed abortions on Sundays with her husband, when other medical staff was not present at the clinic.
"And these were allegedly even the later-term abortions that were happening," Bilgers says, "so we just can't imagine the horrors that went on that she helped with."
Pearl Gosnell admitted her crimes in court, apologized for them, and called her husband "cowardly" for not doing the same.
Kermit Gosnell is serving three life sentences after he was found guilty of killing babies born alive after abortions.
