{"id":82786,"date":"2016-02-24T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=82786"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:02:05","slug":"former-abortionist-i-regret-performing-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-abortionist-i-regret-performing-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Former abortionist: &#8216;I regret performing abortions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Dr. Anthony Levatino is featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\/\">Live Action&#8217;s new video\u00a0project,<\/a> which details\u00a0four of the most prevalent abortion procedures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.priestsforlife.org\/testimonies\/3293-I-Regret-Performing-Abortions\">Priests for Life<\/a>) I started doing abortions in 1977 in New York State during my OB residency. I graduated in 1980 and went into private practice, first in Florida and later in New York. In five years, I performed 1,200 abortions, including 100 second-trimester saline abortions and later, D&amp;E abortions up to 24 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Let me tell you about saline abortions. They are horrible because you see one intact, whole baby being born, and sometimes they were alive. That was very, very frightening.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/videos\/10153921470903728\/\" data-width=\"500\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/videos\/10153921470903728\/\"><p>This doctor has performed over 1,200 abortions. Now, he&#8217;s revealing what actually happens during a second trimester abortion procedure. This video may just change the abortion debate.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/\">Live Action<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/videos\/10153921470903728\/\">Wednesday, February 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With D&amp;E abortions, we traded one kind of brutality for another. You tear the arms and legs off babies and put them in a stack on the table. Babies are never born alive after a D&amp;E abortion. It&#8217;s hard. If you have any heart at all, it affects you.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_82624\" style=\"width: 663px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82624\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-82624 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/de.jpg\" alt=\"de\" width=\"653\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/de.jpg 653w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/de-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-82624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A D&amp;E abortion procedure<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During this time, my wife and I found out we probably would not be able to conceive a child on our own, so we began looking for a baby to adopt. We ran up against one road block after another trying to find a baby to adopt, and I was throwing them in the garbage at the rate of nine or ten a week.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we were able to adopt a baby girl. We named her Heather. A few years later, my wife gave birth to our son.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter Heather was hit by a car in front of our home when she was two months shy of her sixth birthday. She died in our arms in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. I did a few more late-term abortions after that, but it was too difficult to continue.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kHNzoZ4oheU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When you lose your child, life is very different. Everything changes. All of a sudden, the idea of a person&#8217;s life becomes very real. It is not an embryology course anymore. It&#8217;s not just a couple of hundred dollars. It&#8217;s the real thing. It&#8217;s your child you buried. The old discomforts came back. I couldn&#8217;t even think about a D&amp;E abortion anymore. No way. I stopped doing the second-trimester abortions. Then I came to the realization that if I shouldn\u2019t be killing children in the second trimester, then I shouldn\u2019t be killing them earlier, either.<\/p>\n<p>I became involved with the pro-life movement and that has helped me heal and to find forgiveness. How do you make up for the 1,200 dead kids? You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>As an abortionist, I was at the epicenter of the earthquake but since I stopped doing abortions and became involved with pro-life efforts, I can clearly see how abortion affects everyone connected with the child who dies. I regret performing abortions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This article originally appeared at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.priestsforlife.org\/testimonies\/3293-I-Regret-Performing-Abortions\">Priests for Life<\/a>, and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Dr. Anthony Levatino is featured on Live Action&#8217;s new video\u00a0project, which details\u00a0four of the most prevalent abortion procedures. (Priests for Life) I started doing abortions in 1977 in New York State during my OB residency. I graduated in 1980 and went into private practice, first in Florida and later in New York. 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