United States Dr. Warren Hern is one of only a few doctors performing late-term abortions – sometimes into the fifth, sixth, and seventh months of pregnancy.
In a recent interview with Elaine Godfrey for The Atlantic, the 84-year-old seems determined to keep killing the unborn at the Boulder, Colorado clinic he started over 50 years ago, doubling down on his lifelong commitment to abortion, insisting that any reason is a good reason for a woman to have her preborn child killed. But despite — as Godfrey described it — Hern’s abortion absolutism, he admits he has suffered from the reality of what he is doing — killing.
In a recent profile in The Atlantic magazine, he confessed to once being on the receiving end of hellish night terrors.
Hern told The Atlantic that for many years visions of an abortion he performed in the 1970s would awaken him at night. In that particular abortion, he used forceps to pull the child out from his mother, and was shocked to find the child’s heart still beating.
His nightmare centered on the baby’s visibly beating heart, which, to a person of conscience, would be profound proof of the humanity of the living being he was in the process of killing.
Satanic Temple Demands Satanic Priests Serve as School Chaplains, Threatens Legal Action
“He could see it in his mind, the inches-long body and its heart: beating, beating, beating,” the article noted.
Hern could not recall how many babies were born alive over the decades of his practice, but admitted it could have been once or twice.
He confessed to a subsequent nightmare, in which he used his body as a screen to prevent his staff from seeing a baby who was born alive and also had a beating heart.
In a 1978 paper he noted the psychological toll of performing these destructive procedures, especially as he used his forceps to pull out a dismembered baby. “The sensations of dismemberment,” he said, “flow through the forceps like an electric current.”
“[T]here is no possibility of denying an act of destruction. It is before one’s eyes,” he admitted.
In The Atlantic article, Hern said that in the early years of performing abortions, he needed to retreat to his office after performing abortions in order to “process how the dead fetus looked, how removing it felt.”
Recommended: Wisdom For Living – The Power Of Forgiveness
“Sometimes he’d sit in his office and think, What am I doing?” according to the article.
But after performing thousands of abortions, his conscience was seared. He didn’t need to go to his office to “compose himself,” and the nightmares finally ceased.
Continue reading on God Reports
Last modified: March 15, 2024
