{"id":166004,"date":"2017-05-15T11:06:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=166004"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:09:11","slug":"after-55000-abortions-one-baby-convinced-this-doctor-he-was-killing-human-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/after-55000-abortions-one-baby-convinced-this-doctor-he-was-killing-human-beings\/","title":{"rendered":"After 55,000 abortions, doctor becomes pro-life after seeing aborted baby’s beating heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I look, and I see a human heart, contracting and expanding and beating, beating, beating. I thought I would go mad. I can see that the heartbeat is slowing, ever more slowly, and more slowly still, until it finally stops completely. Nobody could\u2019ve seen what I had seen with my very own eyes, and be more convinced than I was\u00a0\u2014\u00a0I had killed a human being.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stojan Adasevic\u2019s journey from abortionist to pro-life advocate was long in the making. It is estimated that he personally performed about 55,000 abortions. According to \u201cThe First Hour,\u201d a documentary about Adasevic’s life,\u00a0about 53 million abortions occur annually worldwide, and at the time of the making of “The First Hour,” there were about 6 billion people in the world, with over 1 billion abortions having taken place in the previous 30 years.<\/p>\n

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Stojan Adasevic<\/p><\/div>\n

Death estimates\u00a0of these proportions usually<\/em> get our attention, and society finds them shocking and heartbreaking.\u00a0We\u00a0have estimates for the number of people executed under Hitler\u2019s rule \u2013\u00a0about 12 million. The\u00a01994 Rwandan genocide resulted in about one million deaths over three months\u2019 time. While these and other modern atrocities were carried out in different ways, by different people, there is one thing they have in common: the dehumanizing or devaluing of human life, which made it easier to take those lives.<\/p>\n

For example, Hitler\u2019s \u201cFinal Solution\u201d targeted Jews in order to annihilate them, and his euthanasia program targeted handicapped<\/a> people; he branded different groups of people as being \u201csubhuman\u201d and then killed them for it. The amount of propaganda Germans were fed about Jews was substantial. The propaganda specifically attacked the humanity of a specific group of human beings, labeling\u00a0Jews as \u201cparasitic vermin<\/a>.\u201d Nothing about that phrase brings human life to mind. Similarly, the documentary “Sometime in April” details the events of the Rwandan Genocide and explains how Hutus, the tribe that attempted to wipe out the Tutsi tribe, refused to call Tutsis anything except \u201ccockroaches.\u201d The Hutus used that term for the Tutsis in their propaganda as well \u2013 over the radio waves\u00a0and in their writing, music, and everything else. If one group of people begin to believe that another\u00a0group of human beings are\u00a0actually\u00a0just a group of cockroaches, what\u2019s so wrong about \u201cexterminating\u201d them?<\/p>\n

A similar\u00a0mindset was fed into the training that former abortionist\u00a0Stojan Adasevic received:<\/p>\n

They taught us and they taught us, told us that life began with the first cry … up to that moment, a human being is like any other organ in a woman\u2019s body, like an appendix. The removal of an appendix from a mother\u2019s body is not murder[.] … [If] it hasn\u2019t cried, then there can be no talk of murder. That is why, immediately after birth, children were taken and their heads submerged in a bucket of water. A child that would take in water instead of air. And would never cry. That was, therefore, not regarded as murder. Terrible, but that was how things were.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For many years, Adasevic firmly believed he was simply removing \u201cpost-natal tissue\u201d from women, not ending lives.<\/p>\n

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He\u00a0explains how the ninth gruesome abortion procedure performed for one woman finally convicted him of the truth:<\/p>\n

I got to work … with my abortion forceps. I grabbed something, crushed it a little, removed it, and threw it onto a cloth. I look, and I see a hand \u2013 quite a large hand. The child was three, perhaps four months old[.] … Someone had spilled some iodine on a part of the table and the hand fell in such a way that the nerve endings came in contact with the iodine … I look and I say, \u2018My God, the hand is moving by itself.\u2019<\/p>\n

I nevertheless carry on with my forceps, and again catch something, crush it, and pull it out[.] … A leg…the leg…fell next to the hand. I look \u2013 both hand and leg are moving by themselves. I nevertheless, once again, direct my instrument into the womb, and begin to crush everything inside. I think to myself that all I need to complete the picture is the heart. I continue to crush, and crush…till I am sure that I have ground everything inside into a pulp, and once again pull out the forceps.<\/p>\n

As I pull out the mess, thinking it will be bone fragments I lay it on the cloth, I look, and I see a human heart, contracting and expanding and beating, beating, beating. I thought I would go mad. I can see that the heartbeat is slowing, ever more slowly, and more slowly still, until it finally stops completely. Nobody could\u2019ve seen what I had seen with my very own eyes, and be more convinced than I was\u00a0\u2014\u00a0I had killed a human being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The\u00a0devaluing and dehumanizing of human beings has led to countless\u00a0unnecessary deaths. Society has no problem recognizing this fatal aspect of the Holocaust and other genocides. Why can’t we recognize it in\u00a0the abortion of our children?<\/p>\n