Reutersの記事の冒頭を引用しておきます。続きはこちらで。
Philadelphia abortion doctor gets three life sentences for baby murders
By Dave Warner and Daniel Kelley
PHILADELPHIA | Wed May 15, 2013 2:28pm EDT(Reuters) - A Philadelphia doctor was sent to prison on Wednesday to serve three life terms without parole for murdering babies during late-term abortions and other crimes at his squalid clinic.
In a deal that spared him from the death penalty, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, faced a judge in a two-day sentencing at Philadelphia Common Pleas Court after waiving his right to appeal his conviction on three counts of first-degree murder.
Graphic trial testimony about Gosnell's actions at the now-shuttered Women's Medical Society Clinic in West Philadelphia, which served a predominantly black and low-income community, cast a spotlight on the controversial practice of late-term abortions.
A seven-woman, five-man jury convicted Gosnell on Monday in the case that focused on whether the infants were born alive and then killed. A clinic worker testified during the trial that the doctor had delivered live babies during botched late-term abortions and cut their spinal cords.
Gosnell's defense had claimed there was no evidence that the babies were alive after they were aborted and that any noise or movement would have been involuntary spasms.
After the sentencing, Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams called Gosnell a "monster" and said imprisoning him for the rest of his life would prevent him from harming others.
"Kermit Gosnell will never kill another baby, he will never kill another woman seeking medical assistance," Williams said. "He will never again subject poor women to barbaric procedures performed in squalor under less than third world conditions."
Gosnell's lawyer, Jack McMahon, said Gosnell maintained his innocence.
"He believes what he did was not homicide. He believes he never killed a live baby," McMahon told reporters.
以下のCNN.co.jpのニュースは日本語で読めます。（が、司法取引のことがメイン。）
「胎児殺害で米医師に終身刑 司法取引で死刑回避」
3つの事件が重なっていますが、中には妊娠24週（LMP）の胎児が含まれていたという話です。フィラデルフィア州では24週未満までの中絶しか認められていないそうです。
ちなみに、「後期中絶」の定義は様々ですが、LateTermAbortionNetによれば、"past 21 weeks"となっています。これは21週6日までではなくて、21週に達したら後期中絶という意味なのでしょうか。少々疑問が残ります。
ちなみに、日本の中絶のリミットは22週未満（21週と6日目まで）です。
