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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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