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.