Yet it wasn’t until last week that the State Board of Medicine suspended the doctor’s medical license and shut down his clinic in West Philadelphia, calling it a “clear danger to the public.”
The suspension order - following a raid by federal drug agents who suspect Gosnell was illegally distributing prescription painkillers - cited unsanitary and “deplorable” conditions, including bloody floors and fetuses in jars. It also said an unlicensed worker routinely administered prescription painkillers to patients, including one who developed a fatal heart arrhythmia in November after receiving multiple doses.
Interviews with state officials, former patients, lawyers, doctors, and activists on both sides of the abortion debate reveal that numerous opportunities to shine a light on Gosnell’s problematic practice were missed or not pursued.

Somehow I just heard about this last night and have been having a lot of feelings about it ever since. Like, I hate that this (and obv this is my assumption not reality since I just heard about it) would be really easy to spin to ramp up anti-choice regulation, when it seems like the real problem is a doctor taking advantage of having a poor and/or marginalized population that he serves. That and having a medical reporting system that requires actual individual patient complaint in order for a doctor to have any sort of penalty.