So they all came out of the womb dead?

If you can't prove they were alive conclusively, you can't charge the guy with murder. I'm not saying this guy is a saint, but you can't throw the entire legal system's requirements for reasonable doubt out the window if there isn't conclusive proof that the babies could live and breathe on their own. Just because a baby -could- survive outside the womb doesn't mean it did or that the abortion was illegal because determining fetal age is difficult. There have been babies born at 21 weeks that have lived with intensive care in a hospital. In some states, you can have abortions up to 24 weeks (Pennsylvania one of them). So are all late-term abortions done at that time in California where that is legal murderers? Law doesn't say so currently.

Did he report them as being dead when they were delivered? And why cut the spine?

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intact_dilation_and_extraction]Intact dilation and extraction[/url]. Cutting the spinal cord sounds bad, but does it really sound better than the normal procedure? [quote]Once the cervix is sufficiently dilated, the doctor uses an ultrasound and forceps to grasp the fetus's leg. The fetus is turned to a breech position, if necessary, and the doctor pulls one or both legs out of the cervix, which some refer to as 'partial birth' of the fetus. The doctor subsequently extracts the rest of the fetus, leaving only the head still inside the uterus. An incision is made at the base of the skull, a blunt dissector (such as a Kelly clamp) is inserted into the incision and opened to widen the opening,[4] and then a suction catheter is inserted into the opening. The brain is suctioned out, which causes the skull to collapse and allows the fetus to pass more easily through the cervix.[/quote] You can read more about the controvery of partial-birth abortion on that page where fetus' can theoretically be viable even after exiting the womb and then are still killed.

I guess I read it wrong. I thought it said that the babies were delivered alive and then he killed them. If it's just an abortion then why is he being charged? He must've done something wrong.

The prosecution is trying to say they were extremely late term abortions (30+ weeks). At the very least that would be an illegal abortion but the state is trying to prove murder since they were for all intents and purposes highly, highly likely to survive outside the womb at that age. i.e., basically killing an infant. Abortion is only legal to 24 weeks in PA. The staff in his office were stating that the babies were older than that (but who knows what deals they made based on their testimony). The Medical Examiner apparently can not conclusively say how old the babies were or if they ever breathed outside the womb to validate the prosecution's charges.

What about the woman who died during one his abortion processes? Is that murder?