Gosnell's lawyer, Jack McMahon, had argued that none of the foetuses was born alive.
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He was convicted this month of first-degree murder in the deaths of three infants born alive.
They said that under state law, an embryo is not person until it is born alive.
Defence lawyers argue that no babies were born alive and that the woman died of unforeseen complications.
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Most are stillborn, and a proportion of those who are born alive do not survive long afterwards.
They said that under state law, an embryo is not person until it is born alive, according to court documents.
Authorities allege that some of the infants were born alive and viable during the sixth, seventh and eighth months of pregnancy.
Dr. Gosnell faced first-degree-murder charges in the deaths of four babies who prosecutors say were born alive at his Women's Medical Society clinic.
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President Barack Obama was criticized during the 2008 presidential campaign for opposing a "born alive" measure offered during his time in the Illinois state Senate.
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Gosnell's high-profile defense attorney, Jack McMahon, paced the courtroom during his cross examination, pressing Gulino to confirm that he could not absolutely determine that the infants were born alive.
Mr. Cameron showed jurors some of the equipment from the clinic, which he said was substandard, and showed a picture of one of the babies who was killed after being born alive.
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He had initially been charged in the deaths of seven babies but was acquitted of three of the murder counts, after his lawyer argued there was insufficient evidence the babies were born alive.
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He had been charged in the deaths of seven babies, but the judge dismissed three of the murder counts after his defense attorney argued there was insufficient evidence the babies were born alive.
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Mr. Cameron showed jurors some of the equipment from Dr. Gosnell's clinic, which he said was substandard, and showed a picture of one of the babies who prosecutors said was killed after being born alive.
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Antiabortion activists following the case have focused particularly on questions about babies born alive in the course of induced abortions, renewing a campaign around the issue more than a decade after they secured a 2002 federal law that set out legal rights for infants delivered with signs of life in the course of an attempted abortion.
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She said she could not remember what happened with her other pregnancies because she had drunk large quantities of alcohol each time she went into labour, and did not know if the babies had been born dead or alive.
Hope even carried me through until August 2006, when my second daughter was born, on time and alive.
He is one of only 12 people in the world still alive who was born before the turn of the 20th century, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.
The building, in the well-to-do area of Rathgar in south Dublin, is now an independent private old folks home and has no religious link, but it still casts a shadow over the lives of the 20 or so still alive who were born and spent their early years there.
Under the scheme, meat for export must be prepared separately, in dedicated plants with yet another layer of inspections and checks, including the need to guarantee the mother of any stock slaughtered was alive six months after it was born.
Interestingly, millennials -- who were born in the 1980s and '90s and thus were not even alive when these foods dominated the diet world in the '60s and '70s -- are driving this movement back to the basics.
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