"Make no mistake about it – this government mandate is a step which will inevitably lead to other mandates that continue to strike at the heart of our Faith and the constitutional liberties we have been guaranteed," write the bishops. "The mandate cannot stand – it must not stand!"
Pennsylvania health officials had discovered a blood-smeared freezer with a "thick" pool of frozen blood at the bottom, medicine expired by several years, and other unsanitary conditions.
A blood-smeared freezer and "sterile" instruments in brown-stained packages were among the conditions that greeted inspectors in an Allentown abortion clinic in May.
The family of Karnamaya Mongar, who died during a botched abortion, demanded that Gosnell freeze any assets while they file a wrongful death lawsuit against him.