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Heady days for a generation pushing social and political change and kermit gosnell m.d. fit right in says author and fox news editor peter boyer. >> he was the ultimate expression of the civil rights movement but also on the edge of an almost radical vein of thought when it came to what he called women's health issues which became a kind of euphemism for the abortion rights movement. >> bret: may 1972. the supreme court herd arguements in an historic abortion case but it would be months before the actual roe v. wade decision. one group drum up political theater ahead of the decision. they reac...

>> bret: returning to our story. the jury heard how the lawyer is framed the kermit gosnell case. the prosecution says the abortion doctor is a murderer who made a practice of delivering live babies and then killing them in cold blood. the defense says it is a racist prosecution of an inner city doctor doing his best for poor women with no where else to turn. now, the jury would hear from people who actually worked in the clinic what they saw and what they did. march 18 began a five week parade of witnesses for the prosecution. to peter boyer, the trial testimony lent a new dimension horrifyin...

Access to better abortion services. >> no one is defending what he did or his practices or that conduct. >> bret: but gosnell lawyers would offer a defense of what they say their client really did in thinks clinic and the jury would hear it during the closing argument. the media would hear it, too. for it is worth noting when jack mcmahon gosnell's defense lawyer stood up to speak the press section of the courtroom was packed. fox news editor at large peter boyer was there. >> gosnell's attorney asserted once again, that it was an elitist and racist prosecution. he said that his client had bee...

Access to better abortion services. >> no one is defending what he did or his practices or that conduct. >> bret: but gosnell lawyers would offer a defense of what they say their client really did in thinks clinic and the jury would hear it during the closing argument. the media would hear it, too. for it is worth noting when jack mcmahon gosnell's defense lawyer stood up to speak the press section of the courtroom was packed. fox news editor at large peter boyer was there. >> gosnell's attorney asserted once again, that it was an elitist and racist prosecution. he said that his client had bee...

>> bret: returning to our story. the jury heard how the lawyer is framed the kermit gosnell case. the prosecution says the abortion doctor is a murderer who made a practice of delivering live babies and then killing them in cold blood. the defense says it is a racist prosecution of an inner city doctor doing his best for poor women with no where else to turn. now, the jury would hear from people who actually worked in the clinic what they saw and what they did. march 18 began a five week parade of witnesses for the prosecution. to peter boyer, the trial testimony lent a new dimension horrifyin...