by
Sarah Terzo
In a 1994 editorial in the Los
Angeles Times, an abortionist named Dr. George Flesh wrote about how he left
the abortion business. Many former abortionists and clinic workers describe an
“aha moment” when they first realized abortion was wrong. For Abby Johnson, for
example, it was when she saw a 13-week-old unborn baby being aborted via
ultrasound. For Dr. Yvonne Moore , it was when she became pregnant
herself and saw her baby’s heartbeat on the ultrasound screen. Dr.
Flesh also had an experience that opened his eyes to how wrong abortion is:
“… a married couple came to me and
requested an abortion. Because the patient’s cervix was rigid, I was unable to
dilate it and perform the procedure. I asked her to return in a week, when the
cervix would be softer.
The couple returned and told me that
they had changed their minds and wanted to “keep the baby.” I delivered the
baby seven months later. Years later, I played with little Jeffrey in the pool
at the tennis club where his parents and I were members. He was happy and
beautiful. I was horrified to think that only a technical obstacle had
prevented me from terminating Jeffrey’s potential life. The connection between
the six-week-old human embryo and a laughing child stopped being an abstraction
for me. While hugging my sons each morning, I started to think of the vacuum
aspirator that I would use two hours later.”
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