Philly Abortion-Murder Trial Focuses in on Preserved Fetus Feet
Experts say there was no medical reason to do it, despite the doctor's claim otherwise
It's one of the macabre mysteries in the case of Kermit Gosnell: Why did the West Philadelphia abortion doctor keep the severed feet of fetuses preserved in specimen jars?
In testimony Tuesday, Adrienne Moton, a former worker at Gosnell's Women's Medical Society, told a Philadelphia jury that Gosnell once explained that he did so in case patients requested them for future identification or DNA samples.
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