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Dr. Bernard Nathanson Describes the Distress of Two Abortion Providers
Clinic Quotes ^ | September 18, 2012 | Sarah Terzo

Posted on 12/04/2014 8:17:27 PM PST by Morgana

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist turned pro-life advocate, recalls these incidents from his time as a legal abortionist:

“I also recall being cornered by the wife of one [abortionist] at the cocktail party we gave when the Sixty-Second Street Clinic opened. She drew me aside and talked in a decidedly agitated manner of the increasingly frequent nightmares her husband had been having. He had confessed to her that the dreams were filled with blood and children, and that he had latterly become obsessed with the notion that some terrible justice would soon be inflicted upon his own children in payment for what he was doing. Another time, the wife of a second doctor, who had done at least 2,000 abortions at the place, phoned to report that her husband had developed a serious drinking problem over the past year that, in her view, was precipitated by the clinic work.

Yet another doctor walked into my office after three weeks on the job and submitted his resignation. He declared that he had absolutely no feelings on the morality of abortion as such, but “when I am up this close to it, it’s just too much for me. Too bloody, too much pressure. You guys are turning out abortions here like it’s an assembly line, and you expect us to work with no feelings at all.”

Bernard N. Nathanson MD “Aborting America” New York: Doubleday Company 1979 p 141


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abortion; bernardnathanson; christian; clinicquotes; formerabortionist; nightmares; prolife

1 posted on 12/04/2014 8:17:27 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

yikes, 1979. Can’t imagine what has happened since then.


2 posted on 12/04/2014 8:31:23 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776; GeronL

Dr. Bernard Nathanson goes back a long way! He was an abortionist turned prolife advocate and Catholic.

A lot of his change of mind came with the invention of the ultrasound, which back then was kinda rusty compared to what we have today.


3 posted on 12/04/2014 8:35:28 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

He was also instrumental in NARAL years ago, and admits that the numbers were fudged.

Is he still around?


4 posted on 12/04/2014 9:03:17 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: Morgana
Reminds me of a book I read about life in one of the Nazi death camps.

The troops who ran the gas chambers were a special outfit, the "death's head" brigade. They didn't last long, according to the author. Insanity, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, satanic rituals, sexual perversion, coarse and sadistic attitudes toward their victims ... sounds about the same here.

5 posted on 12/04/2014 9:05:15 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Morgana

Aaaawww, the poor things.

How about the distress to the babies?


6 posted on 12/04/2014 10:08:26 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Morgana

I think a lot of Germans felt the same way about the gas ovens in Auschwitz, Treblinka, and elsewhere during WW2.


7 posted on 12/04/2014 10:09:35 PM PST by tom h
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Bernard N. Nathanson (July 31, 1926 – February 21, 2011) was an American medical doctor from New York who helped to found the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, but later became a pro-life activist. He was the narrator for the controversial 1984 anti-abortion film The Silent Scream.


8 posted on 12/04/2014 11:23:51 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Let the dead bury the dead. Let the GOP bury the GOP.)
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To: PrairieLady2

died 2011. see #8


9 posted on 12/04/2014 11:24:29 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Let the dead bury the dead. Let the GOP bury the GOP.)
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To: Morgana
he had latterly become obsessed with the notion that some terrible justice would soon be inflicted upon his own children in payment for what he was doing.

That brought this to mind:

Montana Plane Crash Claims Family Members Of Abortion Clinic Owner

March 26, 2009 - There is an ironic twist in tragedy of the small plane that crashed into a Catholic cemetery in Montana on March 24, killing seven adults and seven children. (Those in the plane were on their way to a ski resort only open to millionaires.) In this cemetery is a memorial called the Tomb of the Unborn that reminds Catholics of the millions of unborn children who have been killed by abortionists....

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/feldkamp.asp#8tHPWl3QUgDiIW2l.99

10 posted on 12/05/2014 3:39:45 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: Morgana

What they do is against nature. No wonder they feel bad about it. No amount of feminazi screaming can change human nature.


11 posted on 12/05/2014 4:10:33 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Morgana

I’m glad. I’ll have to look into his life. You know, I have to find out who actually owns MSM. That is who needs to be targeted. I bet it’s a lot of 401Ks? No idea. But I’ll try and find out. Probably the 1%.


12 posted on 12/05/2014 4:41:31 AM PST by huldah1776
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