Why Did This Abortionist Suddenly Stop; and Now Fights to Save the Pre-born?

Nancy Flanders : Oct 6, 2015
LifeSiteNews.com

"For the first time in my life, after all those years, all those abortions, I really looked, I mean I really looked at that pile of goo on the side of the table that used to be somebody's son or daughter and that's all I could see. I couldn't see what a great doctor I was being. I didn't see how I helped this woman in her crisis. I didn't see the 600 dollars cash I had just made in 15 minutes. All I could see was somebody's son or daughter..."

In 1976, Dr. Anthony Levatino, an OB/GYN, graduated from medical school and was, without a doubt, pro-abortion. He strongly supported abortion "rights" and believed abortion was a decision to be made between a woman and her doctor. (Photo via LifeSiteNews)

"A lot of people identify themselves as pro-life or pro-choice, but for so many people, it doesn't really touch them personally; it doesn't impact their lives in the way that I wish it would. If nothing more than in the voting booth, if nowhere else," said Levatino in a speech for the Pro-Life Action League. "But when you're an obstetrician/gynecologist and you say I'm pro-choice—well, that becomes rather a more personal thing because you're the one who does the abortions and you have to make the decision of whether you'll do that or not."

Levatino learned how to do first and second trimester abortions. Thirty to forty years ago, second trimester abortions were done by saline injection, which was dangerous.

"For the first time in my life, after all those years, all those abortions, I really looked, I mean I really looked at that pile of goo on the side of the table that used to be somebody's son or daughter and that's all I could see."

At that same time, Levatino and his wife were struggling with fertility problems and were considering adoption. They knew however, how difficult it was to adopt a newborn.

"It was the first time that I had any doubts about what I was doing because I knew very well that part of the reason why it's difficult to find children to adopt were that doctors like me were killing them in abortions," said Levatino.

Finally, in 1978, the couple adopted their daughter, Heather. Right after the adoption, they discovered they were expecting a baby, and their son was born just 10 months later.

Levatino describes a "perfectly happy" life at this time and says that despite those first qualms about abortion, he went right back to work performing them.

In 1981, after graduating from his residency, Levatino joined an OB/GYN practice which also offered abortions as a service. Saline infusion was the most common method for second trimester abortions at the time, but it ran the risk of babies born alive. The procedures were also expensive, difficult, and required the mother to go through labor. Levatino and his partners trained themselves to perform the D&E abortion procedure, which is used today. (Photo: Abortion instruments/Reuters/via Breitbart)

In his speech, he describes what it's like to perform the now routine procedure:

You take an instrument like this called a sopher clamp and you basically—the surgery is that you literally tear a child to pieces. The suction is only for the fluid. The rest of it is literally dismembering a child piece by piece with an abortion instrument... absolutely gut-wrenching procedure.

Over the next four years, Levatino would perform 1,200 abortions, over 100 of them D&E, second trimester abortions.

But then everything changed. On a beautiful day in June of 1984, the family was at home enjoying time with friends when Levatino heard tires squeal. The children were in the street and Heather...

Read what happened next that changed his life forever, by clicking here.