Posted on 04/28/2025 2:06:15 PM PDT by Morgana
In mid-April, the notorious late-late-late term abortionist Warren Hern announced that his Boulder Abortion Clinic was closing.
His retirement, on January 22, 2025, was not supposed to slow down the killing machine. His clinic would continue to make available “the safest, most compassionate and highest quality outpatient abortion services available anywhere.”
But after almost 55 years and a death toll rising to an estimated 42,000 babies, the 86-year-old Hern told Colorado Public Radio [www.cpr.org/2025/04/24/boulder-abortion-clinic-closes-after-50-years] “All of us who do this work have had increasing difficulty in being able to offer the services,” adding, “We can’t continue, and it breaks my heart. But this is the way it is.”
What happened in just three months?
As Cassy Cooke explained,
despite attempting to remain open, the facility struggled without Hern. Abortionist Benedict Mills was believed to have stepped in as Hern’s replacement.
The Boulder Abortion Clinic website now automatically redirects to another site, www.drhern.com, which states that the facility is permanently closed. In a letter posted to the site, Hern referred to the killing of viable preborn human beings as his “life’s work” which gave him “great satisfaction and meaning.”
The recipient of a slavishly adoring press—Haylee May’s story for Colorado Public Radio was typical—Hern’s decision to close one of the only three clinics that “perform the procedure after 30 weeks” was because
Terminations later in pregnancy are an extremely costly procedure, and not always covered by insurance.
“In my practice, I’ve basically had an abortion intensive care unit, which requires very, very highly skilled professional medical people, nurses, counselors, physicians. That’s an expensive process, and the patients – most of them – cannot pay the fees that are required to cover the cost of this,” Hern said. “The funding agencies have been very generous in many cases, but the funds are sort of drying up.”
Not only are funds running low, but so are the number of physicians who are able to perform the procedure. He was unable to reliably bring on a new practitioner.
But Colorado shoulders on, ever protective of the Abortion Industry. Colorado, thoroughly controlled by pro-abortion Democrats, now rivals Illinois and New York in its maniacal zeal to multiply the number of publicly-funded dead preborn babies.
The Denver Post’s Meg Wingerter assures us that
Most states have a limit on how far into pregnancy doctors can perform an abortion. Colorado is one of nine states without a limit, according to the Guttmacher Institute. A ballot initiative to add a 22-week limit in Colorado failed in 2020, with 59% of voters rejecting it.
Indeed, according to May, last week Gov. Jared Polis (a Democrat, of course) signed a bill that (1) “ensures protections for doctors providing prescriptions for medical abortions, even for patients across state lines”; and (2) another that “updates state laws to match new rules created by Amendment 79 which was approved by voters in the November election. The bill essentially removes a prohibition in the state constitution on using public money to pay for abortions and adds protections to the right to have an abortion in Colorado.”
Hern is not the hero of the downtrodden, performing abortions almost entirely on babies with fatal fetal anomalies, as the accounts of the likes of May and Wingerter would suggest. On January 9, 2025, the Charlotte Lozier Institute reported
Late-term abortion specialist Dr. Warren Hern has published research indicating that abortions on babies with abnormalities made up just 30% of the 1,251 abortions his center performed between 2007 and 2012, although he did not share the percentage of specifically late-term abortions that were performed on healthy babies. However, another paper by Hern reviewed 1,040 late-term abortions performed at 18 to 38 weeks of gestation between 1999 and 2004. Of these late-term abortions, just over a fifth were performed because of a prenatal diagnosis. Dr. Hern’s research also shows that of second- and third-trimester abortions performed for a prenatal diagnosis, abortions because the baby had Down Syndrome composed the largest group.
By the way, Hern “charges between $8,500 and $25,000” for “late abortions” (not defined in a story in the Los Angeles Times) — “compared with $1,500 for first-trimester abortions, which are far simpler.”
Hern was/is, shall we say, prickly. He did not suffer fools gladly, and that included almost everyone. But that didn’t stop the Los Angeles Times’s Molly Hennessy-Fiske from filing a 2022 profile of Hern that was equal measures flattering, unctuous, and sycophantic.
You could tell where this was going early in the story: Hern was inspired in his formative years by reading a biography of Albert Schweitzer no less!
Hennessy-Fiske writes that Hern was a trailblazer. “Dr. Warren Hern pioneered new approaches to make late-term abortions safer. ‘It’s difficult work, and not everyone can do it,’ he says.”
“At the time [the early 70s], most doctors believed abortions couldn’t be done after the first trimester without risking women’s lives,” Hennessy-Fisk writes. “Hern proved them wrong, pioneering new approaches to make later abortions safer, including dilating cervixes with Japanese seaweed tubes called laminaria.”
He described the grisly D&E (dilation and evacuation) abortion at the Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians meeting in San Diego on October 26, 1978, as a procedure in which “the sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.”
Aborting a second-trimester and beyond baby takes a certain kind of personality, as we gather Hern clearly has in abundance. Hennessy-Fisk writes
Hern starts by giving patients the abortion medication mifepristone. Next he injects digoxin into the fetus, which stops the heart. Then he begins dilating the cervix.
Then they wait.
On day three or four, Hern releases the amniotic fluid and then uses two drugs — misoprostol and oxytocin — to make the uterus contract.
Then he can remove the fetus.
Hern gave no evidence that what he does has exacted a toll, emotional or psychological. Referring to abortions performed after the 18th week, Hennessey-Fiske tells us that
It’s precisely because they are so controversial that Hern considers them foundational to democracy. On this he sees no room for compromise. A fetus is never a baby, a pregnant woman is not a mother, abortion at any stage should never be illegal — and anybody who disagrees is simply wrong. [Emphasis added.]
Not so for his staff. “The work has caused some of his employees ‘serious emotional reactions that produced physiological symptoms, sleep disturbances, effects on interpersonal relationships and moral anguish, Hern reported in a medical journal. Some said they dreamed that they vomited fetuses.”
I’ll give Live Action’s Cassy Cooke the last word.
Whatever reservations Hern may have initially had, he overcame them, later saying that he loved committing abortions. Hern is known to have collected as much as $25,000 for an abortion, living in a lavish, expensive home while allowing his abortion facility to fall into disrepair around him.
I’m guessing Hern is not wanting for money.
Says the one who made a living stopping beating hearts.
see you in hell, slugger
“We can’t continue, and it breaks my heart. But this is the way it is.”
If he thinks he’s sad now wait until he faces eternity in hell.
Some of these Dr’s will be way closer to the center of the lake of fire than even Hitler.
“great satisfaction and meaning.”
Of course he did. He’s a serial murderer of children and licensed to do so. Probably enjoyed every minute of it. What a sick and evil world.
I hope it’s more than banjoes he meets in the afterlife.
“The funding agencies have been very generous”
Disgusting.
Agreed. I ask young people every now and then what they think about the old pro-slavery argument that "It's not a person; it's property." Of course the reply is that it was horribly wrong. To which I always tell them to think twice the next time they hear, "It's not a person; it's just a clump of cells".
being aborted over and over and over and over ad infinitum
I hope when he gets to the other side he has to face all those kids he killed.
You should never wish hell on anyone. No one is above redemption.
Mark 8:36 KJV — For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
“No one is above redemption.”
I agree. We should pray for him while he is still alive.
Likely the funds they received were funneled through our government taxes. DOGE may well be responsible for drying them up.
To think that we all may have been paying for the murder of the most innocent.
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me....
hmmmm. I’m no Columbo but I’m pretty sure this guy is headed straight to hell. Won’t have to wait in line.
He’s a poofter, homo activist. So he hates reproduction.
Pre-born baby: Extremely costly to my life, too. /S
Judgement Day will not be kind to him.
All of the lives he took - he could have changed the course of history, killed inventors and discovers.
Wow. Evil incarnate.
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