PHILADELPHIA (LifeSiteNews) — Notorious Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was sentenced to life in prison for brutally murdering three newborn babies, has died at age 85.

Gosnell died at a hospital earlier this month, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.

The monstrous abortionist is believed to have killed thousands of babies born alive in his “house of horrors” abortion facility, in addition to grotesquely injuring female clients, some of whom later died.

Gosnell was charged in 2011 on seven counts of first-degree murder and convicted by a grand jury two years later on three of the counts. He was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the case of a woman who died due to multiple unrecorded doses of the dangerous sedative Demerol administered by Gosnell’s unlicensed workers.

Gosnell was further convicted on 21 counts of committing illegal late-term abortions and more than 200 counts of violating Pennsylvania’s required 24-hour waiting period before abortions.

As noted by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, the pro-life journalists and filmmakers who wrote the book Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, the grand jury investigating Gosnell’s crimes “wanted to charge him with 200 recent murders but the move was stymied and reduced to just seven after pressure from senior political and law enforcement officials.”

“According to sources close to the investigation, law enforcement and politicians did not want their homicide numbers to spike in an era of falling crime and murder statistics,” they added.

The abortionist’s barbarities included cutting off the feet of his baby victims and persevering them in jars, a practice that he did for 16 years, according to a grand jury report.

He additionally caused devastating harm to women throughout his decades in the abortion industry, as the report details:

One woman, for example, was left lying in place for hours after Gosnell tore her cervix and colon while trying, unsuccessfully, to extract the fetus. Relatives who came to pick her up were refused entry into the building; they had to threaten to call the police. They eventually found her inside, bleeding and incoherent, and transported her to the hospital, where doctors had to remove almost half a foot of her intestines.

On another occasion, Gosnell simply sent a patient home, after keeping her mother waiting for hours, without telling either of them that she still had fetal parts inside her. Gosnell insisted she was fine, even after signs of serious infection set in over the next several days. By the time her mother got her to the emergency room, she was unconscious and near death.

A nineteen-year-old girl was held for several hours after Gosnell punctured her uterus. As a result of the delay, she fell into shock from blood loss, and had to undergo a hysterectomy.

Gosnell’s so-called “Women’s Medical Society Clinic,” like many other abortion centers, was filthy and replete with rusty, dirty equipment.

The grand jury report described the horrific conditions of his facility:

The clinic reeked of animal urine, courtesy of the cats that were allowed to roam (and defecate) freely. Furniture and blankets were stained with blood. Instruments were not properly sterilized. Disposable medical supplies were not disposed of; they were reused, over and over again. Medical equipment – such as the defibrillator, the EKG, the pulse oximeter, the blood pressure cuff – was generally broken; even when it worked, it wasn’t used. The emergency exit was padlocked shut. And scattered throughout, in cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs, were fetal remains. It was a baby charnel house.

Investigators also found babies’ remains in milk jugs, cartons of orange juices, and cat food containers, according to the report.

McElhinney and McAleer related that Gosnell’s handyman “frequently complained that the toilets and drains were blocked with the ‘arms and feet’ and other remains of aborted babies.”

This story is developing…