Mind Blowing –
Oct. 14, 2018 – On April 11, 2013, I was in the courtroom with three other local reporters listening to the horrifying testimony of Ashley Baldwin, a Gosnell employee. I looked over at rows of empty seats marked with “media only” notices. Disgusted, I snapped a picture of the empty seats and uploaded it to Twitter. It quickly went viral. That pic, along with a same-day column by Kirsten Powers at USA Today, exposed our tribe as derelict. In “Gosnell: Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer,” filmmakers Philem McAleer and Ann McElhinney, with writer Andrew Klavan, take license with key players, compressing events in the sprawling horror of Gosnell. They have produced a riveting film that tells what the abortionist did in his clinic, sparing viewers the gore that each day sent gasps through the courtroom…
