"He left the door open," said Williams, now 32. "I could see all the little babies in bottles filled with liquid, and I started crying.
"He said he did research on them. He said, 'Don't cry, don't feel bad. Everybody does this.' "
Williams' unnerving story of her illegal abortion is among a seemingly endless string of nightmarish allegations being leveled against Gosnell, whose clinic has now been linked to the death of two women.
A civil lawsuit alleges that Semika Shi-relle Shaw, 22, died of a perforated uterus two days after she had an abortion at Gosnell's clinic, the Women's Medical Society, at 38th Street and Lancaster Avenue, in 2000.
On Nov. 20, another woman, identified by the Inquirer as Karnamaya Mongar, died after having an abortion at the clinic. The Pennsylvania Department of State said the woman had been medicated by an unlicensed employee of Gosnell's. His medical license was suspended by state officials on Monday.
Gosnell's clinic has been raided twice in the past week by federal and local authorities, including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, who believed he was writing illegal painkiller prescriptions, a law-enforcement source said.
The agents inadvertently discovered horrific conditions at the office, including bloodstained floors and bottled fetuses.
Numerous lawsuits have been filed against Gosnell, many of them over botched abortions, leading many to wonder how he has managed to stay in business - and elude discipline - for decades.
Part of the answer could be that before 2002, doctors weren't required to report civil lawsuits against them, said Leslie Amoros, spokeswoman for the Department of State.
But with the passage of MCARE, - a state law that is supposed to protect patients from "negligent doctors" - all doctors are required to notify the state licensing board if lawsuits are filed against them.
