WASHINGTON — The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) today issued the following statement regarding the death of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist convicted of murdering infants who were born alive.
Gosnell, who died in
March 2026 while serving multiple life sentences, was found guilty in 2013 of killing babies who were born alive during abortion procedures, as well as the death of a woman following a botched abortion. His crimes drew national attention for their brutality.
“Gosnell’s actions underscore a reality our nation continues to ignore,” said Carol
Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Each abortion – no matter how it is performed – deliberately and brutally takes at least one innocent human life. Every day, unborn children—including those at late gestational ages—are intentionally killed in an abortion. Women continue to be harmed, and sometimes die, from abortion procedures.”
Evidence presented at trial showed that
Gosnell routinely delivered babies alive and then killed them. In a 281-page Grand Jury report, it was revealed that for over 30 years, Gosnell killed thousands of late term-babies and delivered hundreds of others who were born alive but then killed by severing their spinal cords. Gosnell was responsible for at least
two patient deaths and injuries to others.
Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
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