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Bernard A. Nathanson (1926-2011), was a professionally well-recognized and successful New York obstetrician and gynecologist. An avowed atheist as a young man through his middle age, Nathanson was a co-founder of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, whose activities are credited with hastening the liberalization of abortion law in New York State. Intent on increasing the accessibility and promoting the acceptance of abortion on demand, Dr. Nathanson taught and published journal articles on the operative techniques and on the results from large numbers of these procures. During his tenure as director of the largest abortion clinic in the Western World, Nathanson presided over 60,000 abortions, and he performed more than 1,500 in his own practice. His studies of embryology and evidence from emerging technologies to monitor and examine intrauterine fetal development led Nathanson to question the morality of voluntarily interrupting pregnancy, thence to rejecting abortion procedures from his own clinical practice altogether, and eventually to become involved in anti-abortion, pro-life activities. An influential writer, speaker and film maker, these experiences and witnessing the love and prayer of other pro-life supporters turned Nathanson to notions of God, and finally reading and personal prayer guided him from secular atheism to Christianity.

[Bernard Nathanson] became a prominent opponent of abortion and was famous as the narrator of The Silent Scream, a brief but powerful anti-abortion film produced shortly after Roe v. Wade. His subsequent pro-life leadership over many years likely stood him well at his death in 2011. Pro-choice readers are invited to follow Dr. Nathanson.

\"Once again, we see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream,\" he says as the doctor inserts a suction tube. \"For the first time, we are going to watch a child being . . . destroyed by the unfeeling steel instruments of the abortionist.\" His \"introductory excursion into the satanic world of abortion\", he later wrote, came in the 1940s, when he gave his pregnant girlfriend money for an illegal procedure. Two decades later, he performed an abortion on a different girlfriend. \"I swear to you that I had no feelings aside from the sense of accomplishment, the pride of expertise,\" he wrote. In his writings and speeches about abortion, he often referred to the guilt he felt about the work he had done before his convictions changed. \"I know every facet of abortion,\" he wrote. \"I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.\"

We should not forget that Adolf Hitler also had \"scientific\" explanations why Jews, Gypsies and other so-called undesirables should be exterminated. So it's not surprising that the pro- abortion lobby follows similar tactics today.

A Feb. 4 Maine Voices column on Page A15, \"Women do deserve facts on abortion,\" stated that a clinic owned by NARAL founder Dr.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson at one time operated one of the largest abortion clinics in America. While viewing an abortion by means of a sonogram, he came to understand the myth he had come to believe as precisely that - a myth which did not conform to reality. Dr. Nathanson saw a human being whose life and future was being aborted before his very eyes, and he could no longer continue his lucrative abortion business. Dr. Nathanson went on to help organize the pro-life movement, which would vigorously oppose that which he once so vehemently promoted.

Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice--abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced. Steering away from metaphysical critiques of privacy, Graber compares the philosophical, constitutional, and democratic merits of the two systems of abortion regulation witnessed in the twentieth century: pre-Roe v. Wadestatutory prohibitions on abortion andRoe'sban on significant state interference with the market for safe abortion services. He demonstrates that beforeRoe,pro-life measures were selectively and erratically administered, thereby subverting our constitutional commitment to equal justice. Claiming that these measures would be similarly administered if reinstated, the author seeks to increase support for keeping abortion legal, even among those who have reservations about its morality. Abortion should remain legal, Graber argues, because statutory bans on abortion have a history of being enforced in ways that intentionally discriminate against poor persons and persons of color. In the years beforeRoe, the same law enforcement officials who routinely ignored and sometimes assisted those physicians seeking to terminate pregnancies for their private patients too often prevented competent abortionists from offering the same services to the general public. This double standard violated the fundamental human and constitutional right of equal justice under law, a right that remains a major concern of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Dr. Bernard Nathanson, an obste- trician-gynecologist and prominent pro-life supporter, will speak Nov. 8 at the Pro-Life Convention spon- sored by the Lincoln Roman Catho- lic Diocese. Nathanson is on the staffs of Roosevelt Hospital Center and St. Vincent's Hospital Center in New York City.