PHILADELPHIA'S chief medical examiner has testified in the murder trial of an abortion provider, saying he can't be sure if any babies were born alive.
Dr Sam Gulino testified on Monday that he examined 47 fetuses recovered from a clinic run by Dr Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell is charged with killing a patient and seven babies.
Gulino says many of the bodies had been stored in a freezer, complicating his examinations.
Prosecutors say that Gosnell or his untrained staff killed at least seven babies born alive. Gosnell's defence lawyer denies the charge.
Gulino believes that two fetuses he examined were beyond Pennsylvania's 24-week limit.
Earlier on Monday, another city abortion provider testified, drawing stark comparisons between his work and Gosnell's.
Gosnell, 72, is also accused of performing illegal, late-term abortions and running a dangerously outdated clinic staffed by untrained workers.
Dr Charles Benjamin said he performs abortions after 17 weeks gestation in a hospital - unlike Gosnell, who performed about 1000 abortions a year at his clinics in West Philadelphia and Delaware.
Benjamin, by his own count, has performed 40,000 abortions over a 30-year career and testified as a prosecution expert. He is one of about four abortion providers left in Philadelphia in the wake of Dr Gosnell's arrest two years ago.
Benjamin said he doesn't do abortions after 21 weeks gestation, or three weeks shy of the 24-week limit in Pennsylvania.
He said that he has registered nurses on staff to monitor patients, and that only he or a nurse anesthetist give anesthesia, unlike Gosnell's clinic, where workers hired to clean instruments have testified that Gosnell trained them to administer potent intravenous drugs.
The trial is now in its fifth week, and could last another month.
Gulino described his bafflement when police in 2010 turned over bags seized at Gosnell's clinic with the 47 sets of fetal remains, along with medical waste and other debris.
"It was really an unprecedented situation," said Gulino, who talked to colleagues and searched medical literature. "There was no guidance for how to proceed."
Former workers have testified that Gosnell had the aborted fetuses in the freezer because of a billing dispute with his medical waste disposal company, which had stopped coming.
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