
**FILE** Dr. Kermit Gosnell speaks to his attorney in Philadelphia on March 8, 2010. Gosnell, an abortion doctor who catered poor women at the Women's Medical Society, is charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive. (Associated Press)/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim)

**FILE** Dr. Kermit Gosnell speaks to his attorney in Philadelphia on March 8, 2010. Gosnell, an abortion doctor who catered poor women at the Women's Medical Society, is charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive. (Associated Press)/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim)

** FILE ** In this March 8, 2010, photo, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is seen during an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News at his attorney's office in Philadelphia. Gosnell, an abortion doctor who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, went on trial Monday, March 18, 2013, on eight counts of murder, but prosecutors say he's not the only person to blame for the deaths. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim)

** FILE ** In this March 8, 2010, photo, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is seen during an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News at his attorney's office in Philadelphia. Gosnell, an abortion doctor who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, went on trial Monday, March 18, 2013, on eight counts of murder, but prosecutors say he's not the only person to blame for the deaths. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, Yong Kim)

Johnnie Mae Smith, 61, mother of Marie Smith who sued Dr. Kermit Gosnell after a botched abortion, looks at a newspaper with Gosnell's photo on it during an interview with the Associated Press in Philadelphia Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, was charged Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011, with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Women's Medical Society is seen here in February. The Philadelphia clinic has been shut down, and he was charged Wednesday with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said. (Associated Press)