Life: Dr. Kathi Aultman's Conversion Story: From Abortion Provider to Pro-Life Advocate from Pro-Life Utah [VIDEO]
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I 'm Dr. Kathi Aultman.
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I am a retired OBGYN, and I used to be an abortionist.
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And I'd like to tell you the story of how I went from being someone who aborted babies
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to someone who now tries to save babies.
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After college I took a year off to make money to go to medical school.
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During that time I met my future husband and I got pregnant.
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And decided that abortion was the best option for me.
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Later I regretted that decision, but at the time, I thought that was the best thing I
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should do.
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When I entered medical school, I truly believed that abortion was a woman's right to choose,
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and I was very adamant about it.
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I wanted to help women.
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During my training, I learned how to do D&C; with suction abortions, and then I sought
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out extra training to be able to do D&E; abortions, or dismemberment abortions.
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After getting my medical license I was able to start moonlighting doing abortions at a
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clinic in a nearby city.
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I got pregnant during the last year of my residency, and during that time, I still continued
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to do abortions.
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And really didn't have any qualms about it.
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I felt that my baby was wanted, their babies were not, I didn't see any problem with that.
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What did change my mind, was when I went back to the clinic after delivering my baby.
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I ran into three patients that changed my life.
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With the first patient, I realized that I had done three of her previous abortions.
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And when I objected, and didn't want to do it, staff told me that I didn't have that
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right.
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That it was her right to choose.
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Even if she wanted to use abortion as her birth control.
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She had the abortion, I talked to her there afterwards.
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She still did not want to use birth control.
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And wanted to use abortion as her backup.
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The second patient came in with a friend.
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And oftentimes the patients did want to see the tissue.
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The friend asked her, "Do you want to see the tissue?"
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And she snapped at her and said, "I don't want to see it, I just want to kill it."
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And I wanted to say, "What did this baby ever do to you?"
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The last patient had four children already, and she and her husband felt that they just
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couldn't afford another child.
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So, she cried throughout the whole time at the clinic.
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It just broke my heart.
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It was at that point that somehow, I made the baby/fetus connection.
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And the fact that the baby was not wanted, was no longer enough for me to do the abortion.
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I never did another abortion.
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The only time I had any qualms other than that, was when I did my neonatal intensive
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care unit rotation.
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And I realized that some of the babies I was trying to save, were the same gestation as
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babies that I had aborted.
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The problem is, that I still believed that a women had the right to choose abortion.
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I still believed in abortion.
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And I still referred patients for an abortion.
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As I began my practice though, I noticed that there were women who kept their unwanted pregnancies,
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even very young girls, and they seemed to do fine.
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And then I was seeing other women who had abortions, who were coming in with psychological
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problems, and being extremely distressed.
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I was also seeing complications of abortion.
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And this didn't jive with the feminist rhetoric that I had so closely embraced.
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So I began to be a little uncomfortable.
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What finally changed me, was a very loving friend gave me an article.
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Said, "Would you consider reading this?
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I know what your position on abortion is, but could you just read this?"
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It was an article that compared abortion to the Holocaust.
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Suddenly I realized that I was no different from the German doctors who did horrible experiments
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on people.
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Or the Nazis who exterminated so many.
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I suddenly understood why they could do what they did.
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Because, I could do what I did.
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I did not see the fetus as a human being.
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Just like the Germans did not see the Jews as human beings.
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When you don't see someone as human, you can do whatever you want to them, and not feel
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bad about it.
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That was the point where I became pro-life.
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And after that, it took a lot of prayer, and a lot of counseling, for me to get past the
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fact that I was basically a mass murderer.
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And to get over the fact that I had aborted my own child, as well as so many others.
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You know, I always love to meet people that I delivered.
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But it's bittersweet, because I know there are so many that I will never meet, because
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I aborted them.
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The thing to remember, is that although we can't see who these little people are, they
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ARE people.
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They're still in the womb, but they are people.
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And we don't know what they are going to be, or who they are going to become.
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But we need to give them a chance.
