On Thursday, the Washington Times’ Julia Duin printed a very insightful piece that includes interviews with both Bernard Nathanson, one of George Tiller’s former mentors, as well as Dr. LeRoy Carhart, one of the physicians who regularly assisted Dr. Tiller with abortions at his clinic in Wichita, KS.

Bernard Nathanson is a former abortionist and atheist who oversaw over 75,000 abortions throughout the 1960’s and 70’s. He is also a co-founder of the National Abortion and Reproduction Rights Action League (NARAL). Although he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1996, Nathanson says his conversion to pro-life had “nothing to do with religion:

“I did late-term abortions until I changed my opinion as of 1980.

“That is where I changed my mind, based on fetoscopies and ultrasound studies.
Once we had ultrasound in place, we could study the fetus and see it was a member of our community…In 1970, there were approximately 1,100 articles on the functioning of the fetus. By 1990, there were 22,000. The data piled up swiftly and opened a window a window into the womb.”

Using ultrasound technology that was never before seen at the time, Nathanson was responsible for the video “The Silent Scream” which ‘shows an unborn child recoiling from a vacuum abortion device before being sucked to its death.’

 Nathanson mused, “On wonders why [Tiller] never changed his mind based on the scientific evidence.”

Indeed.

Duin’s second interview was with Dr. LeRoy Carhart, a physician who assisted Dr. Tiller during numerous abortions. This is the same Dr. Carhart who earlier this week likened the loss of George Tiller to the assassination of the great Martin Luther King, Jr. This statement, made on Monday during a memorial for Tiller, was considered an outrage to many, including Alveda King, Dr. King’s niece and well-known pro-life advocate.

Adding to his list of quotable (and highly questionable) statements, Dr. Carhart, a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, said that “God gave a fetus a ‘guardian ad litem’ when he chose the mother that fetus is born with. That mother, I feel, has been charged by God to make the right choices for that child during its unborn and early years.”

Why would God even bother with pregnancy if mother’s were supposed to decide between  life or death for their child?

Duin finished by saying before she could ask that very question, Carhart terminated the interview.

Maybe they’d like to work out the holes in their theories and get back to us?