{"id":49350,"date":"2014-05-07T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=49350"},"modified":"2014-05-08T09:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:32:40","slug":"article-late-term-abortionist-suffered-nightmares-that-fetus-was-trying-to-hold-onto-uterus-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/article-late-term-abortionist-suffered-nightmares-that-fetus-was-trying-to-hold-onto-uterus-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: Late-term abortionist suffered nightmares that fetus was trying to hold onto uterus walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>New York City abortionist Dr. William\u00a0Rashbaum performed over 20,000 abortions in his lifetime. In one article, the magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2003\/09\/end-road\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones called him<\/a> &#8220;one of the pre-eminent and longest-practicing providers of second-trimester abortions in the United States.\u201d \u00a0 He died <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/03\/nyregion\/03rashbaum.html?fta=y\" target=\"_blank\">almost exactly 9 years ago \u2013 in early May of 2005, at the age of 78<\/a>. \u00a0He continued performing abortions up until the last years of his life, and his career as an abortion provider lasted over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>He did them late-term, through the second trimester, aborting babies that were fully developed, with <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpregnancy.org\/duringpregnancy\/fetaldevelopment2.htm%20\" target=\"_blank\">arms and legs, fingers and toes<\/a>, and faces which could show\u00a0human expressions. \u00a0Many of the babies he aborted were old enough to <a href=\"\/\/www.nrlc.org\/uploads\/fetalpain\/Fetal-Pain-The-Evidence.pdf.\" target=\"_blank\">feel pain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He promoted abortion in articles and interviews that he gave throughout his life. But in one unguarded moment, he admitted to a reporter that, deep down, he was troubled by the very procedures that he had dedicated his life to performing. In an article entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonphoenix.com\/boston\/news_features\/other_stories\/multipage\/documents\/03376466.asp\">\u201cCruel to be kind: In the twilight of his career, a late-term-abortion doctor tells all\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 in the Boston Phoenix, writer Rebecca Paley describes how Raushbaum began performing abortions right after Roe versus Wade. His father, who was an OB\/GYN, was very much against abortion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the beginning, Rashbaum had problems performing abortions. First, there were his father\u2019s objections. &#8220;Growing up, the worst thing my dad could say about another doctor was he did abortions,&#8221; he says. \u2026.although Rashbaum felt he was performing a necessary service, it weighed heavily on his conscience. He was troubled by a recurring dream of a fetus trying to hold onto the walls of a uterus by its tiny fingernails. Raised to believe that abortion was wrong, he reasons, &#8220;What kind of dreams do you think you are going to have?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although he wrote off his recurring nightmare as a product of his upbringing, it is clear that, deep down, he knew that abortion was not simply a procedure that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/health-t?&quot;opics\/abortion\/in-clinic-abortion-procedures-4359.asp\" target=\"_blank\">as Planned Parenthood puts it <\/a>\u201cgently empties your uterus\u201d \u00a0but was in fact killing a developing human being. Sadly, he never allowed his nightmares to influence him. He never stopped performing abortions until his failing health forced him to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he continued to suffer the nightmares for years or whether they faded once he was able to harden his conscience is not me clear in the article.\u00a0 What is clear, however, is that he did not allow his dreams to influence him. He ignored his conscience, and continue performing abortions. Yet we see that even the most dedicated abortion provider can show some ambivalence when\u00a0faced every day with the horror of tearing apart developing unborn humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City abortionist Dr. William\u00a0Rashbaum performed over 20,000 abortions in his lifetime. In one article, the magazine Mother Jones called him &#8220;one of the pre-eminent and longest-practicing providers of second-trimester abortions in the United States.\u201d \u00a0 He died almost exactly 9 years ago \u2013 in early May of 2005, at the age of 78. 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