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In the debate over abortion, our conversations often focus on women and the preborn. But sometimes we forget another group of people whose lives are affected by abortion: the clinic workers. Their reasons for working in the abortion industry\u00a0vary, as do their\u00a0life stories. Many of these men and women courageously leave the industry after learning the truth about their work. Here are six people who made that brave decision.<\/p>\n

Merilida Aguilar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes all it takes is one moment for an abortion worker to decide to leave. Aguilar\u00a0describes that moment in her life<\/a>:<\/p>\n

That Saturday, my coworker called me to go look at what she was seeing in a container the doctor had just left on the counter after he was done with an abortion procedure. With horror she kept repeating, “We are going to go to hell\u2014Meri, come and see what is in here!”<\/p>\n

I turned and started walking towards her, wondering what she was talking about. When I got closer to look inside, to my disbelief, I saw tiny little arms with the hands attached intact. I could see the tiny fingers and legs with tiny feet and toes floating in blood and solution. We just stood there without saying a word. […]<\/p>\n

After that day, things changed, and I was not able to continue to do what I was doing. I finally knew for certain that abortions were never performed on a blob of tissue, as they want the world to believe, but a real person. This baby was 12 weeks old before he\/she was murdered. I did not last long after that, and soon I was fired. The number of abortions being scheduled were not growing, but declining, at the center I was working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Anthony Levatino<\/strong><\/p>\n

He performed 1,200 first and second trimester abortions, while at the same time struggling with infertility with his wife. They adopted a little girl, whom they named Heather. After being hit by a care, Heather tragically died just before her sixth birthday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized as never before,”\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Levatino, “that the child I was killing in each abortion was somebody’s precious child. […]\u00a0One day\u00a0it was my turn to perform a second trimester abortion. As I started the procedure, I inserted a clamp and ripped out the baby’s arm. Then I paused for what seemed like forever, staring at the arm in the clamp. A procedure I had done over a hundred times before suddenly made me ill.”<\/p>\n

After that<\/a>, he explains, “It was too difficult to continue. […] As an abortionist, I was at the epicenter of the earthquake, but since I stopped doing abortions and became involved with pro-life efforts, I can clearly see how abortion affects everyone connected with the child who dies. I regret performing abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Levatino went on to be the featured expert in Live Action’s viral Abortion Procedures videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n