Abortion Doctor Trial: Jury Considers Verdict A jury in Philadelphia is deciding whether an abortion doctor is guilty of murdering four viable babies after they were born alive. Dr Kermit Gosnell, 72, performed thousands of abortions over a 30-year career. He maintains that he helped desperate women and teens who had no other access to medical care. But prosecutors allege he routinely cut live babies in the back of the neck to sever their spines, because he did not know how to do a proper abortion in utero. He also allegedly made millions both from the late-term abortions and prescriptions for addictive painkillers. Karnamaya Mongar died at the clinic Eight former workers, who have pleaded guilty to murder or other charges, have described seeing newborn babies wriggling and whining. Dr Gosnell is also charged in the 2009 death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, who was given anaesthetic and monitored by two mentally unstable medical assistants and a teenager. State officials had not inspected Dr Gosnell's clinic since the early 1990s, prosecutors said. "When people (who are) supposed to regulate these folks don't do it right, that's what happens," Assistant District Attorney Ed Cameron told jurors in closing arguments on Monday. Back alley abortions. Coat hanger abortions. That's what happens. The clinic has been shut down and two top state health department officials fired, since the FBI raided the clinic one night in 2010 looking for prescription drug abuses. Instead, they found the nocturnal abortion service in full swing. Are you human? Mr Cameron asked Dr Gosnell, "to med these women up and stick knives in the backs of babies?" The doctor sat calmly, as he has done throughout the often graphic six-week trial. Prosecutors allege these bags stored aborted foetuses at the clinic He provided those desperate young girls with relief. He gave them a solution to their problems," his defence lawyer Jack McMahon argued on Monday. He added that prosecutors who blasted the clinic as a filthy, flea-infested "house of horrors" in a 2011 grand jury report sensationalised the case to make headlines. "This isn't a perfect place by any stretch of the imagination - but it isn't what they say it is," Mr McMahon said.