What Made This Abortionist Pro-Life?

After many years, all it took was pro-lifers sharing one thing

Kathi Aultman is a former abortionist who is now a pro-life advocate. She told her story in an interview with Lila Rose from Live Action.

Dehumanizing Preborn Babies

Aultman was strongly pro-choice when she entered medical school. A doctor she really admired committed late-term abortions, and she was eager to learn from him.

She bought into the pro-abortion argument that women’s bodily autonomy gave them the right to have abortions.

She liked the challenge of doing abortions and was not put off by doing them late in pregnancy:

I was challenged by the procedure and I really hate to say this, but the bigger the better. I cringe now when I say that, but I wanted to do the biggest ones I could. It was a challenge, and my whole focus was being good at what I did and stretching the limits.

She did not see the babies she aborted as human beings:

I think part of the problem was that I didn’t see a fetus any [differently] than a chick embryo. The chick embryos that we dissected in college. And I didn’t see them as human beings.

She did not feel any emotional conflict about tearing preborn babies apart. In fact, she was fascinated by the babies’ bodies:

As a matter of fact, and again I hate to admit this, but when I would look at the parts that I had taken out, I was fascinated with them. I thought, “Oh, these are so cute. And they’re great, they’ve got little fingers and toes.”

… I just wanted to find out everything about them that I could. But I did not see them as human beings. I just saw them as embryos and fetuses. Not as people.