Because they can’t speak for themselves, I will continue to try…
Excerpts from Mugged by Ultrasound reveal many abortionists, unable to deal with the horrors of their job, not only leaving the industry, but becoming staunch, pro-life advocates.
“In general, abortion providers have censored their own emotional trauma out of concern to protect abortion rights. In 2008, however, abortionist Lisa Harris endeavored to begin “breaking the silence” in the pages of the journal Reproductive Health Matters. When she herself was 18 weeks pregnant, Dr. Harris performed a D&E abortion on an 18-week-old fetus. Harris felt her own child kick precisely at the moment that she ripped a fetal leg off with her forceps:
‘Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes—without me—meaning my conscious brain—even being aware of what was going on. I felt as if my response had come entirely from my body, bypassing my usual cognitive processing completely. A message seemed to travel from my hand and my uterus to my tear ducts. It was an overwhelming feeling—a brutally visceral response—heartfelt and unmediated by my training or my feminist pro-choice politics. It was one of the more raw moments in my life.’ …
‘As I brought out the rib cage, I looked and saw a tiny, beating heart,’ he would recall. ‘And when I found the head of the baby, I looked squarely in the face of another human being—a human being that I just killed.’ “
Full article: Mugged by Ultrasound