In 2013, the criminal trial of Kermit Gosnell and his abortion “house of horrors” shocked the nation. For years, state inspectors had overlooked numerous egregious violations at Gosnell’s Philadelphia facility — it was a sanitary disaster, he was killing already-delivered babies and it was also a fire-trap from which patients could not be safely extracted in case of emergencies resulting from his quackery. Worst of all, at least two women had died from botched abortions there, and countless others had been maimed.