-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:24:08 PM EST
In this April 15, 2013 photograph, clinic escorts Stacey Spiehler, left, and Sarah Roberts walk back to their posts after securing signs on the clinic's lawn with messages to counter those of the abortion opponents that gather outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., when it is open. A federal judge temporarily blocked Mississippi from revoking the license of the state's only abortion clinic, saying the state cannot close the clinic while it still has a federal lawsuit pending to challenge the 2012 law. A trial date has not been set. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:24:08 PM EST
In this April 15, 2013 photograph, abortion opponents gather outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic for a morning prayer service, in Jackson, Miss. The 2012 Mississippi law requires each doctor who performs abortions at the clinic to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Diane Derzis, the clinic’s owner, says all hospitals have refused. Last summer, the clinic filed its federal lawsuit seeking to permanently block the admitting privileges law. A federal judge allowed the law to take effect in July but prohibited the state from punishing the clinic as it sought to comply. In April, the judge blocked the state from holding a license revocation hearing while the lawsuit is pending. A trial is at least two months away, or the judge could decide the case without testimony, based on written arguments that are still being submitted. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:24:08 PM EST
In this April 15, 2013 photograph, abortion opponents gather outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic for a morning prayer service, in Jackson, Miss. The 2012 Mississippi law requires each doctor who performs abortions at the clinic to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Diane Derzis, the clinic’s owner, says all hospitals have refused. Last summer, the clinic filed its federal lawsuit seeking to permanently block the admitting privileges law. A federal judge allowed the law to take effect in July but prohibited the state from punishing the clinic as it sought to comply. In April, the judge blocked the state from holding a license revocation hearing while the lawsuit is pending. A trial is at least two months away, or the judge could decide the case without testimony, based on written arguments that are still being submitted. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:24:08 PM EST
In this April 15, 2013 photograph, Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic owner Diane Derzis, right, is followed by abortion opponent Chet Gallagher of Las Vegas, Nev., outside her business in Jackson, Miss. Abortion opponents gather outside the clinic several times a week for a morning prayer service and to "counsel" the women patients as they enter and leave the facility. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:24:08 PM EST
In this April 15, 2013 photograph, abortion opponent Corrie Zastrow, left, calls out to patients while clinic escorts secure signs on the front gates to prevent abortion opponents from visually confronting patients as they enter the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss. The 2012 Mississippi law requires each doctor who performs abortions at the clinic to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Diane Derzis, the clinic’s owner, says all hospitals have refused. Last summer, the clinic filed its federal lawsuit seeking to permanently block the admitting privileges law. A federal judge allowed the law to take effect in July but prohibited the state from punishing the clinic as it sought to comply. In April, the judge blocked the state from holding a license revocation hearing while the lawsuit is pending. A trial is at least two months away, or the judge could decide the case without testimony, based on written arguments that are still being submitted. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:42:50 AM EST
Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Philadelphia. Gosnell, an abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:42:50 AM EST
In this May 1, 2013 photo, Dr. Kermit Gosnell's former facility, the Women's Medical Society, is shown in Philadelphia. Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday May 14, 2013, to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:42:50 AM EST
In this May 1, 2013 file photo, letters are missing from the directory of Dr. Kermit Gosnell's former facility, the Women's Medical Society, in Philadelphia. Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday May 14, 2013 to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:42:50 AM EST
Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Philadelphia. Gosnell, an abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
-
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:42:50 AM EST
FILE - In this undated photo provided by the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is shown. Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday May 14, 2013 to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department via Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, File)
-
Posted: 5/14/2013 2:35:25 AM EST
Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Monday, May 13, 2013. Gosnell was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic. He was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of a patient who had undergone an abortion. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
-
Posted: 5/13/2013 4:50:24 PM EST
Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, leaves the courthouse in Philadelphia Monday, May 13, 2013. Gosnell was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic. He was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of a patient who had undergone an abortion. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
-
Posted: 5/4/2013 12:38:43 PM EST
FILE - This undated photo provided by the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office shows a procedure room at the Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia. Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, was charged Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011, with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said Gosnell employed untrained, unlicensed workers in a deplorable facility with broken or unsterile equipment. (AP Photo/Philadelphia District Attorney)
-
Posted: 5/4/2013 12:38:43 PM EST
FILE - In this March 8, 2010 photo, Dr. Kermit Gosnell speaks during an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News at his attorney's office in Philadelphia. Gosnell, an abortion doctor who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, was charged Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim) PA INQUIRER OUT; METRO OUT; THE EVENING BULLETIN OUT, TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT: PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, YONG KIM
-
Posted: 5/4/2013 12:38:43 PM EST
FILE - Anti-abortion legislation, left, sits on a desk in Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's ceremonial office as he prepares to sign it at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. on Friday, April 19, 2013. At right is a page of Brownback's notes about the measure with "JESUS + MARY" written at the top. Further down the page are typewritten notes spelling out Brownback's belief that the bill would create "a culture of life." Since the Republican electoral gains of 2010, GOP-dominated state legislatures have passed more than 160 restrictive abortion measures - more than in the seven previous years combined, according to a tally by the Guttmacher Institute. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
-
Posted: 5/4/2013 12:38:43 PM EST
FILE - President Barack Obama speaks at the 2013 Planned Parenthood National Conference in Washington on Friday, April 26, 2013. Obama, who supports abortion rights, became the first sitting president to make an in-person address to Planned Parenthood, vowing to help fight against state abortion restrictions that he said are designed to "turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
-
Posted: 5/4/2013 12:38:43 PM EST
In this April 15, 2013 photograph, abortion opponent Corrie Zastrow, left, calls out to patients while clinic escorts secure signs on the front gates to prevent abortion opponents from visually confronting patients as they enter the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss. On April 15, 2013, a federal judge temporarily blocked Mississippi from revoking the license of the state's only abortion clinic, saying the state cannot close the clinic while it still has a federal lawsuit pending to challenge the 2012 law. A trial date has not been set. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
-
Posted: 5/4/2013 12:38:43 PM EST
FILE - In this March 8, 2010 file photo, Dr. Kermit Gosnell speaks to his attorney in Philadelphia. Gosnell, an abortion doctor who catered poor women at the Women's Medical Society, was charged Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim) PA INQUIRER OUT; METRO OUT; THE EVENING BULLETIN OUT, TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT: PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, YONG KIM
-
Posted: 5/1/2013 6:38:45 AM EST
FILE - This Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 file photo shows abortion rights protesters holding candles and pictures in a vigil for Savita Halappanavar outside Ireland's government headquarters in Dublin. Ireland's government has published a long-awaited bill, Wednesday May 1, 2013, explaining the law on when life-saving abortions can be performed in a country that officially bans the practice. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik, File)
-
Posted: 5/1/2013 6:38:45 AM EST
FILE - This Saturday Nov. 17, 2012 file photo shows people lighting candles as abortion rights protesters march through central Dublin demanding that Ireland's government create a law defining when abortions can be performed to save a woman's life. Ireland's government has published a long-awaited bill, Wednesday May 1, 2013, explaining the law on when life-saving abortions can be performed in a country that officially bans the practice. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik, File)
