What Does Abortion Do to Abortionists

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What does abortion do to

abortionists?

Anthony Ozimic

Communications managerSPUC


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missing piece

effect of abortion upon individuals often only

considered re physical effects (child, mother)

or psychological effects (mother)

very little re doctors, nurses, other staff

were missing key piece of the jigsaw puzzle of

the abortion phenomenon


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different experiences

abortion industry makes quick, clinical and

uneventful as possible

abortion doctors and staff must dealfrequently with abortion e.g. killing,

disposable of remains, distressed women,

controversy

we should expect harm.


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Why dont abortionists stop?

Ignorance is not the problem. Doctors know:

embryology (teaches life begins at

fertilisation) fetology (teaches how unborn grows)

Hippocratic oath (which forbids abortion)

Judaeo-Christian tradition (Thou shalt notkill)

public debate (incl. pro-life arguments)


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abortionists know

Dr Anthony Levatino,

ex-abortionist:

I want the generalpublic to know that

the doctors know

that this is a person;

this is a baby. That

this is not some kind

of blob of tissue.


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weak souls

Question put to Bernard Nathanson:

How could your conscience and ethical training

have allowed him to perform abortions?His answer:

Neither he nor his colleagues had the solid

inner core of spiritual strength necessary toremind us of the enormity of the evil we were

perpetrating.


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virtue and vice

virtue: habit of doing good

vice: habit of doing evil


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virtue and vice (II)

Sin creates a proclivity to sin; it engenders vice

by repetition of the same acts. This results in

perverse inclinations which cloud conscience

and corrupt the concrete judgment of good

and evil. (Catechism of the Catholic Church,

1994)

What does this mean? Well, just as


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you are what you eat

Anthony Ozimic not Anthony Ozimic


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you become what you do

Mother Teresa Adolf Hitler


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self-harm

Doing wrong harms oneself just as/more than it

harms others, according to:

Socrates, Plato, Cicero, Stoics Bible

Catholic Church: abortion is an infamy which

poison[s] human society, do[es] more harmto those who practice [it] than to those who

suffer from the injury. (Vatican II)


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instrumentalisation

Abortionist who does abortion solely/mainly

primarily for money:

instrumentalises himself by using medicalskills to serve lower goal (personal gain).

instrumentalises his patients (women,

unborn) by treating them, not as ends in

themselves, but as sources of money.


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instrumentalisation (II)

women-patients may be instrumentalising

doctor, by using him to solve personal social

problems

endemic mutual instrumentalisation of the

persons involved.


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falsification

Effect of instrumentalisation is falsification:

abortionist no longer doctor but hired

technician woman no longer mother-patient but

customer-client

health service no longer healer but socialengineer.


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falsification (II)

medicine and motherhood are vocations

vocation, if either followed or falsified, will

have profound effects upon one's identity abortion therefore negatively affects moral

character through falsification


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conflicted society

Society suffers from conflicted mentality:

women desperate to bear children (e.g. IVF)

and to avoid children (e.g. abortion)

reasonable to ask if similar conflict in abortion

industry occurs within moral character of

those who perform abortions.


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self-justification

adopted pro-abortion arguments as defence

suppressing conscience through believing own

rhetoric thinking corrupted by actions

brittle thinking crumbles into doubt


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self-justification (II)

I started to believe my own rhetoric. Carol Everett,

ex-abortion centre director

Physicians are manipulated into going against their

own consciences and performing abortions, all in thename of helping women. David Brewer, ex-

abortionist

When one is caught up in revolutionary fervor, one

simply does not want to hear the other side and

filters out evidence without realizing it. Dr Bernard

Nathanson, ex-abortionist


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deceit

Kathy Sparks, ex-abortion centre worker:

Sometimes we lied. A girl might ask what her

baby was like at a certain point in pregnancy.Was it a baby yet? Even as early as twelve

weeks a baby is totally formed, he has

fingerprints, turns his head, fans his toes, feels

pain. But we would say, 'It's not a baby yet. It'stissue, like a clot.


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substance, sex abuse

study of ex-abortionists: c.40% had problems

with substance abuse whilst abortionists (Ney

and Peeters ,1997)

substance abuse, sexual perversion, alienation

from life rampant among abortionists

(Nathanson)

US abortionist convicted of 22 counts of

sexually abusing patients (2003)


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transitional period

Negative affects on abortionists often appear

during exit from abortion industry

Beverly McMillan, ex-abortionist:

I began to detest what I was doing. More than

that, I began to detest myself. I evenentertained thoughts of suicide..


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Joan Appleton

Joan Appleton, ex-abortionist:

several years drinking, on drugs and

attempting suicide said such reactions not atypical of others who

have left abortion field

"You do badly in relationships. You begin toget a little mentally ill.


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Dr Bernard Nathanson


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Dr Bernard Nathanson (II)

US pioneer of abortion

a leader of abortion rights campaign before

Roe v Wade (1973) performed 5,000 abortions (incl. his own

children), responsible for 60,000+

had problems with substance abuse,relationships, depression.


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Dr Bernard Nathanson (III)

slowly became pro-life after seeing abortion

via ultrasound

admitted lying re number of abortion deathsbefore Roe

wrote books (Aborting America, The Hand of

God), produced documentaries (The Silent

Scream, Eclipse of Reason)

spoke at SPUC events 1980s.


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Nathansons decade of change

[During my transitional decade] I had

performed many thousands of abortions on

innocent children, and I failed those whom I

had loved

existential tormentunremitting black

despair

considered suicide, alcohol, tranquilizers

I despised myself.


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Holocaust

Nathanson: I had

become as Hannah

Arendt described

Eichmann: a collectionof functions rather than

an accountable human

being.


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Banality of evil

Arendt re Holocaust:

[T]he lesson that this

long course in human

wickedness had taught

us [is] the lesson of the

fearsome, word-and-

thought-defying

banality of evil.

Auschwitz staff having fun


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dehumanised

survey of former abortionists: 100% felt moderately

or completely dehumanised (Ney and Peeters, 1997

Norma McCorvey, 'Roe' ofRoe v. Wade:

Please understand, these were not abnormal,

uncaring women working with me at the clinic. We

were just involved in a bloody, dehumanizingbusiness, all of us for our own reasons.It's not an

easy trying to confuse a conscience that will not stay

dead.


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Carol Everett

had 3 abortions

had affair, drink problem, left

husband

worked for abortionist

opened her own abortion

centres

profiteered from unethical

business practices

converted by Christianpreacher

exposed abortion industry as

all lies.


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Carol Everett (II)

[T]he abortion clinics never accept any

responsibility for complications. They just say

it was not their fault. The concern is not the

patient at this time. The concern is with taking

care of the doctor and keeping his reputation

and the clinic's [reputation] clean.


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Bloodmoney

Documentary revealing

endemic deceit and

malpractice in US

abortion industry.Includes testimony by

ex-abortionists.


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Abby Johnson

director of Planned

Parenthood centre

pressured to increase

abortions numbers to boost

business

assisted with ultrasound-

guided abortion

left abortion industry,

joined pro-life movement

revealed her own abortion


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Dr Kermit Gosnell

Philadelphia abortionist accused of

running the most bloody and

sordid abortion business perhaps

ever recorded:

numerous infanticides deaths of, and injury to, women

patients

Running filthy clinic

Storing bodies of babies in

refrigerators, incl. next to juice Keeping collection of severed

baby feet in jars.


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Live Action

Undercover sting

operations on abortion

clinics by Lila Rose (Live

Action) revealedcomplicity in underage

sex trafficking.


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Dr Rachel McNair

Has researched abortionists.

There are plenty of horror

stories from pre-Roe days

If those horror stories have

not stopped, then perhaps

it's not the legal nature of

abortion that's the problem.

Maybe it's the nature of

abortion, period.


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Not hopeless

Even such a vice as serial killing of the innocent

does not result in absolute and irrevocable

corruption of human nature.


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outreach

These facts allow us to ponder whether the pro-

life movement should develop a hitherto

unknown outreach not only to former

abortionists, but to current abortionists, not

for any strategic or political gain but out of

genuine and hopeful concern for their

personal and moral well-being.


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pray for abortionists

Human Life International

(HLI) prayer for

abortionists:

St. Michael theArchangel Come to

the rescue of men

whom God has

redeemed at a greatprice from the tyranny

of the devil.

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