{"id":167399,"date":"2017-06-09T19:37:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T23:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=167399"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T14:28:45","slug":"former-abortionist-congress-sanitized-language-make-abortion-palatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-abortionist-congress-sanitized-language-make-abortion-palatable\/","title":{"rendered":"Former abortionist who became pro-life: &#8216;I realized that the baby was the innocent victim in all of this&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;I was horrified by the realization that I had killed more people than most mass murderers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In March 2016, former abortionist Kathy Aultman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/03-15-16%20Aultman%20Testimony.pdf\">testified before Congress<\/a> on what changed her mind about abortion. Aultman gave her testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in defense of two pro-life bills \u2013 a pain-capable bill and legislation that would protect babies born alive during abortion.<\/p>\n<p>After having shared three stories about women who had abortions, Aultman explained what it was that changed her mind about the murdering of preborn children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI finally made the connection between the fetus and baby,\u201d Aultman said. \u201cI realized that what struck me was the apathy of the first patient and the hostility of the second towards the fetus, contrasted with the sorrow and misery of the woman who knew what it was to have a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fliveaction%2Fvideos%2F10155081053653728%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=400\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aultman went on to say that the innocent victim in an abortion is the preborn child and that an unwanted baby is no longer a justification for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized that the baby was the innocent victim in all of this, and the fact that it was unwanted was no longer enough justification for me to kill it,\u201d Aultman said. \u201cI could no longer do abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She described in detail how the abortion industry uses euphemisms and false rhetoric to hide the humanity of the preborn child and urged Congress to protect the preborn.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a society we have shifted our priorities from basic human rights to women\u2019s rights and have taught our young women that nothing should interfere with their right to do whatever they want with their bodies, especially when it comes to pregnancy. We have also done a good job of sanitizing our language to make abortion more palatable. We don\u2019t speak about the \u201cbaby\u201d; rather, we talk about the \u201cfetus.\u201d The abortionist \u201cterminates the pregnancy\u201d rather than \u201ckilling the baby.\u201d As medical doctors and as a society we have moved away from the idea that life is precious and closer to the utilitarian attitudes which wreaked so much havoc during the last century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her testimony \u2013 along with other former abortionists\u2019 stories \u2013 is helping change hearts and minds about abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was horrified by the realization that I had killed more people than most mass murderers.&#8221; In March 2016, former abortionist Kathy Aultman testified before Congress on what changed her mind about abortion. 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