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A self admitted mass murderer has a change of heart, rats out his former friends and is welcomed by the opposition leaders with open arms.

The pedophile priests should take a lesson from this guy. At least one of them should tell his whole story ("I raped over 15 young boys, so I should know something about pedophilia."). Given the same standard as the mass murderer in this story, our confessed priest would be given a warm welcome by the leaders of anti-pedophile community. He would be invited to speak at "Protect the children" conferences. Dr. Laura could invite the priest to speak on her shows.

"...and I began to think about, for the first time, what we had really been doing there --morally and ethically what we had been doing. And this was coincidental with my assuming on the first of January of 1973, when I left the clinic, the post of chief of obstetrical services at the St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. Now that's a teaching institution for Columbia University Medical School, and it was just at that time, at that very time and I --I'm sure it is no coincidence-- the hand of God was there. But it was at that very time that we began to move in to the hospital the new equipment, the new technology in obstetrics, principally ultrasound and fetal heart monitoring, taping ... electronic fetal heart monitor, which threw open a window into the womb. And for those of us who were not blind, who would look, it opened up a whole new world. For the first time, we could really see the human fetus. Really measure it. Observe it. Watch it, and bond with it --bond with it. Love it. And I began to do that. I was working with this technology, which was all new, but I found myself bonding with the unborn.

Tell you an anecdote --not an anecdote really, it was ... an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine about ten years ago, maybe more, written by a physician and an ethicist at the University of Virginia. They had ten women come into their abortion unit, but before the abortion they did an ultrasound examination on each woman, and they turned the screen to the woman so she could see. Nine out of ten of them left that clinic still pregnant. That's how powerful the bonding became...

... So ... I come to you here today on the brink of conversion, believing the hand of God has moved me here. Believing that God will forgive me for the blood on my hands, the lives I have taken, the tragedies I have created, and ultimately the shambles that has been my life. I wish all of you, I beg you to pray for me. "

Excerpted from a taped talk given by Dr. Bernard Nathanson at Human Life International's 13th World Conference, 1994.

**A self admitted mass murderer has a change of heart, rats out his former friends and is welcomed by the opposition leaders with open arms.**

Understandable. Didn't Christ forgive sinners? Think about it!

The pedophile priests should take a lesson from this guy. At least one of them should tell his whole story ("I raped over 15 young boys, so I should know something about pedophilia."). Given the same standard as the mass murderer in this story, our confessed priest would be given a warm welcome by the leaders of anti-pedophile community. He would be invited to speak at "Protect the children" conferences. Dr. Laura could invite the priest to speak on her shows.

Sounds fair enough. Let him do all that before he's brought in for trial for however many counts of child molestation.

Of course, in the abortion situation there's the problem that abortion is--like it or not--legal, and the prohibition against ex post facto legislation prevents going after any abortionists for doing things that were legal at the time.