In the second installment of Live Action’s powerful new video series, three women who experienced abortion trauma and regret came face to face with three former abortion providers.
Live Action president and founder Lila Rose moderated the discussion, which strongly focused on the role deception and denial play in abortion — both for the women who have them, and for the abortionists who commit them. Despite this, they all said, there is hope.
The Panel
Emily Rarick had two abortions. Upon introducing herself, she said she became pregnant at 17 and had an abortion using the abortion pill (which she refers to as “RU486 drugs”), and then became pregnant again seven months later and had another abortion by the same method.
Gigi Davis, seated next to Rarick in the video, also experienced abortion regret and had five abortions by two different methods: first trimester suction aspiration abortion and the abortion pill.
Patricia Sandoval had three surgical abortions when she was 19, and later worked at Planned Parenthood, where she was involved with first-trimester surgical abortions as well as second-trimester D&E (dismemberment) abortions up to 20 weeks gestation.
Drs. Kathi Aultman, Haywood Robinson, and Anthony Levatino,
who no longer commit abortions, are seated on the opposite side of the
table in the video. But Dr. Aultman noted that she could just as easily
have been seated on the other side, as she, too, once had a D&C
suction abortion, and went through a long process of post-abortive
healing.
Dr. Aultman believes her own abortion is why she was “so gung-ho, so pro-abortion when I started my residency, because I had my own abortion just prior to entering medical school, because I thought if I was pregnant, I wouldn’t be able to become a doctor.” Before ending her career as an abortionist, she committed an estimated 500 abortions.
Dr. Robinson committed “several hundred” D&C suction abortions in the first trimester, and during his abortion training, witnessed “saline abortions” and saw “very mature second [and] third-trimester babies [aborted]” which he noted that today, “we’d see in the NICU in lots of hospitals….”
Dr. Levatino stated that during his residency training, he “learned to do first- and second-trimester abortions, including suction D&Cs and saline abortions,” and “performed almost 1200” abortions of various types during his abortion career.
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