Prosecutors say Dr Gosnell profited greatly from employing low-paid, unlicensed staff, while performing as many as 1, 000 abortions a year, charging from several hundred dollars for an earlyabortion to several thousand for a three-day long, late-term procedure.
Leading antiabortion groups typically have given lukewarm support to restricting the procedure early in pregnancy, saying they think they have stronger legal grounds for tightening access to abortion through controls on clinics and regulating abortions carried out using a pill rather than a surgical procedure.