{"id":256578,"date":"2021-11-05T06:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=256578"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:59:17","slug":"former-abortionist-abortion-lie-women-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-abortionist-abortion-lie-women-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Former abortionist confesses own abortion: I believed the lie that women needed abortion to succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before she became an abortionist \u2014 or later, a converted and outspoken pro-life advocate<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Dr. Kathi Aultman was a student headed to medical school while facing an unplanned pregnancy. Because she believed at the time that women cannot be both successful students and mothers, she chose to have an abortion.<\/p>\n

“And it’s the same old story,” Aultman told Catholic News Agency<\/a>. “I thought that … if I kept the baby, I wouldn’t be able to be a doctor. I was afraid we’d end up with a divorce, because we were getting married because we had to. I was afraid of what my family and friends would think.\u00a0So I decided to have an abortion.”<\/p>\n

While in school, she became interested in obstetrics and gynecology, and since she believed in the so-called ‘right to choose’, she began committing abortions. She was fascinated by the bodies of the babies, whom she saw as equivalent to chick embryos. But after years of trying to challenge herself by carrying out abortions on increasingly larger babies, she gave birth to her own child. After that, abortion became less and less justifiable.<\/p>\n

READ: Former abortionist sheds light on Planned Parenthood\u2019s practices: \u2018We didn\u2019t really offer them any options\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I had bought the line that the worst thing that could happen to a woman was an unwanted pregnancy,” she said. “[…] Slowly, this was beginning to make me wonder if everything that I believed [about abortion] was really true.”<\/p>\n

She also began to realize that the fears that pushed her into her own abortion were unfounded. She now knew many women who had babies and were successful doctors. And when it came to her marriage, despite having the abortion, they still ended up divorcing. As for the family and friends she thought would judge her or be disappointed in her unplanned, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, she realized they would have been understanding.<\/p>\n

“So none of the reasons that I came up with for having the abortion ended up being valid,” she explained.<\/p>\n