{"id":197620,"date":"2019-03-02T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197620"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:54:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:54:52","slug":"fox-host-tears-abortionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fox-host-tears-abortionist\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Interview with former abortionist brings FOX host to tears"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Life Site News<\/a>) With the extremes of abortion-on-demand back in the national spotlight, former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino appeared on \u201cFox & Friends\u201d Thursday morning to offer a firsthand view of the subject, with a retelling that left a deep impact on interviewer Ainsley Earhardt.<\/p>\n

Levatino is a board-certified OB\/GYN who performed more than 1,200 abortions over the course of his 40-year career, but left the industry following the death of his daughter and rose to prominence in recent years as a pro-life advocate. He has offered his expertise to a series of Live Action videos<\/a> detailing what abortion procedures actually entail, and congressional testimony<\/a> against the claim that abortion is medically necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I graduated from medical school in 1976 I was dedicated pro-choice,\u201d Levatino told Earhardt in the interview. \u201cI was quite dedicated to it, this was a woman\u2019s choice. I was an obstetrician, and I was gonna provide that care.\u201d But his perspective began to change in 1984, after his young daughter Heather was struck and killed by a car.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you haven\u2019t lost a child yourself you have no idea, I hope you never find out. But what do you do after a disaster? You bury your child, you try to get back into your life,\u201d he continued, explaining that his first dilation & evacuation procedure after the tragedy was a turning point.<\/p>\n

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“A second-trimester D&E abortion is a brutal, inhumane procedure. This is a morning show so I cannot describe it, but let\u2019s just say they call it dismemberment abortion for a reason,\u201d Levatino said. \u201cAnd I started that abortion and just stared at what I had just pulled out of the uterus. When you do an abortion, believe it or not, you have to keep inventory, you have to make sure that you get everything.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for the first time in my career, after all those years and all those abortions, I looked, I really looked at that pile of body parts on the side of the table, and I didn\u2019t see her wonderful right to choose, I didn\u2019t see what a great doctor I was helping her with her problem, and I didn\u2019t even see the $800 cash I just made in fifteen minutes,\u201d he said. \u201cAll I could see was somebody\u2019s son or daughter.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it struck me in that moment, that this patient had (figuratively, never literally) came to me and said \u2018here\u2019s $800, kill my son or daughter.\u2019 And I was the kind of person who would look her right back in the eye with no hesitation and say, \u2018sure, I\u2019ll do that,\u2019\u201d Levatino confessed.<\/p>\n