Mandi+Davis

I am using the  Grand Jury Report on the crimes of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell as the basis of this Wiki. I will add material to support my contention that though Gosnell is beyond the pale, this is mainly in the way he combined and refined aspects of the ghoulish and callous disregard for humanity often seen in abortionists. He was hardly a pioneer.

In order to distinguish between my own writings, and those of the Grand Jury, I will use a different font that makes the Grand Jury Report appear to be typed.

Mandi Davis, sanitation specialist in the Environmental Engineering Section of the Philadelphia Health Department
[In August 2003,] Mandi Davis... wrote a memo to a colleague at the department, Ken Gruen, with a copy to then-Assistant Health Commissioner Izzat Melhem. She informed them that she had received a “rather disturbing” complaint of aborted fetuses stored in paper bags in an employee refrigerator at Gosnell’s clinic.

 Davis requested that a site visit be conducted to assure that proper infectious waste handling and disposal practices were in place. Davis further instructed Gruen: “I am not expecting a ‘wild goose chase’ for aborted fetuses.” Current Philadelphia Health Commissioner Donald Schwarz testified that notations on the memo seem to indicate that a site visit was, in fact, made.

 The city health department, however, could not produce any report of that site visit. Nor is there evidence that the department took any action against Gosnell for his dangerous handling of medical waste, or for his failure to have an approved infectious waste plan, as is required by the city Health Code.

 A year later, Gosnell still had no approved disposal plan. On March 28, 2004, Davis sent Gosnell a letter stating that a “plan” he had submitted was “incomplete.” In fact, it was completely blank, except for the name and address of the clinic, some contact information, and an indication that it was a medical facility.

On May 3, 2004, Davis sent a form letter, saying that it was necessary " for infectious waste to be properly containerized, stored, transported, and disposed in a manner to preclude any hazard to you, your staff, and patients, the community or the environment ," and noting that Gosnell had submitted no plan nor paid his fee. [A year later, another inspector was sent to the clinic and noted several problems with the infectious waste; Gosnell produced paperwork but never paid the fee. The Grand Jury noted, " Yet five years later, he was still operating ." The Grand Jury were also unsatisfied with Dr. Schwarz's explanation: that the regulation served mainly for purposes of revenue, and that there was really no enforcement.]