WILMINGTON -- Delaware to the bottom of it." Attorney General Beau Biden (2 of 2) said Thursday his office has Last week, Gosnell, 69, was launched a "wide-ranging" arrested and charged with investigation of abortion murder in the deaths of seven doctor Kermit Gosnell -- who infants who had allegedly is facing murder charges in been delivered alive at Philadelphia -- to see if he Gosnell's Women's Medical broke any state laws or Society clinic and were regulations when he was killed by Gosnell or a working at the Atlantic staffer with scissors. Women's Medical Services Philadelphia prosecutors also clinic in Wilmington. charged Gosnell and two "Like most of us, I'm clinic staffers with ties to disturbed by the allegations Delaware in the 2009 death of that were handed up by the a patient who court papers grand jury in Philadelphia," allege was over-sedated and said Biden, referring to a died following an abortion at 261-page report released last Gosnell's clinic. week by Philadelphia District Calls to Atlantic Women's Attorney Seth Williams. Medical Services -- which Biden said his office and appeared closed Thursday Delaware regulators have met because of the snow -- have with Philadelphia prosecutors been referred to Philadelphia to determine if there were attorney Nino V. Tinari, who any criminal acts or has been unavailable for regulatory infractions comment since last week. committed by Gosnell, or Because Gosnell has been those associated with him, in charged with the murder of Delaware. "Baby Boy A," a child "It is under way and has been delivered by a woman who under way," Biden said, first consulted with Gosnell adding the probe dates back at the Delaware clinic, there to at least March 2010, when could be a charge of Gosnell's license to practice accessory to murder, Haley medicine in Delaware was said. suspended in the wake of a According to the grand jury raid on his West Philadelphia report, in 2008, a teenager's clinic. great aunt paid Gosnell $2, Gosnell worked at Atlantic at 500 in cash at Atlantic for a least one day a week for late-term abortion that could years, likely right up until not be performed in Delaware. his license was suspended, Gosnell started the abortion according to the report and by administering labor- Philadelphia prosecutors. inducing drugs at Atlantic Biden's comments came with instructions the following a news conference teenager be taken to the Thursday by Delaware Right to Philadelphia clinic the next Life outside Atlantic Women's day to complete the procedure, Medical Services on Baynard the report says. Boulevard to call for an When Baby Boy A was delivered inquiry. the next day, according to James Haley Jr., a member of the report, he was alive Delaware Right to Life and a until Gosnell slit the boy's criminal defense attorney, spinal cord. said there is "probable The report indicated the cause" in the Philadelphia child was likely too far grand jury report to launch a along for a late-term criminal inquiry in Delaware. abortion under Pennsylvania Delaware Right to Life law. In Delaware, late-term President Nicole Collins abortions are illegal after called on state regulators to 20 weeks. In Pennsylvania, make sure Atlantic and the the cutoff is 24 weeks. state's other two abortion Haley noted the grand jury clinics are meeting safety report claims Gosnell and sanitation standards. defrauded the Delaware Pro- She said she was pleased Choice Medical Fund, an state prosecutors are looking organization that provides into the situation. financial assistance to women "I'm very, very glad to hear seeking abortions in Delaware. they are moving forward and According to the report, they are investigating," she Gosnell would routinely have said. his staff change the Biden declined to say addresses of Philadelphia directly if the investigation patients to indicate they is scrutinizing practices at lived in Delaware and were Atlantic but said his office eligible to have their is "looking at a range of abortions paid for by the issues." Biden said people in fund. his office are concerned by Officials with the fund could things related to Delaware in not be reached for comment the Philadelphia grand jury Thursday. report, "and we want to get
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