Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist turned pro-life advocate, recalls these incidents from his time as a legal abortionist:
“I also recall being cornered by the wife of one [abortionist] at the cocktail party we gave when the Sixty-Second Street Clinic opened. She drew me aside and talked in a decidedly agitated manner of the increasingly frequent nightmares her husband had been having. He had confessed to her that the dreams were filled with blood and children, and that he had latterly become obsessed with the notion that some terrible justice would soon be inflicted upon his own children in payment for what he was doing.
Another time, the wife of a second doctor, who had done at least 2,000 abortions at the place, phoned to report that her husband had developed a serious drinking problem over the past year that, in her view, was precipitated by the clinic work.Yet another doctor walked into my office after three weeks on the job and submitted his resignation. He declared that he had absolutely no feelings on the morality of abortion as such, but “when I am up this close to it, it’s just too much for me. Too bloody, too much pressure. You guys are turning out abortions here like it’s an assembly line, and you expect us to work with no feelings at all.”
Bernard N. Nathanson MD “Aborting America” New York: Doubleday Company 1979 p 141
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