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Abortion Doc Takes Risks for Strong View (Defends Practice as way of Caring for Women)(*BARF*)
See BS ^ | 12/4/2009 | Jim Axelrod

Posted on 12/05/2009 3:52:15 AM PST by markomalley

(CBS) Not every doctor takes a different route to work each day.

"Anything that's habit forming is deadly," Dr. Leroy Carhart told CBS News Correspondent Jim Axelrod.

Most doctors also don't have a metal detector and bulletproof glass at his office. But Carhart is not every doctor.

"People out there want to kill us," Carhart told Axelrod.

A 68-year-old former Air Force surgeon, Carhart performs up to 3,500 abortions a year while activists protest at his clinic. He doesn't plan to stop.

"Until I can find someone else to care for women, they still need somebody to care for them," Carhart told Axelrod.

Carhart believes in his work and doesn't hide what goes on inside his clinic in Nebraska, but you may also find it a bit surprising given what happened to his close friend and colleague earlier this year.

When George Tiller was shot in his church last May, he was America's best known provider of late term abortions, those ending pregnancies after 22 weeks, a point when the fetus might survive outside the womb.

For more than a decade, Carhart spent a week each month assisting at Tiller's clinic.

"When he approached me to come work with him, he said, 'Both of us are very vulnerable targets and I think I need somebody else to carry on what I'm doing,'" Carhart told Axelrod.

After Tiller's death Carhart started doing late-term abortions at his own clinic, on average one every 10 days.

Carhart says half the abortions he performs between the 22nd and 28th week are due to fetal health issues. The other half are for the mother's mental health. After the 28th week, 90 percent of the abortions he performs are for fetal health.

Women like Sue, an unmarried 28-year-old mother of three, come from around the country. She's somewhere between 21 and 23 weeks pregnant. She's aborting because she put her last baby up for adoption and had a nervous breakdown. She waited so long because she didn't have the money.

"At this point this is the easier decision for me," Sue told Axelrod. "That may sound selfish to a lot of people, but I am having a lot of complications that aren't good for my health."

"Which I think is probably a rational choice on her part," Carhart told Axelrod.

"A rational choice?" Axelrod asked.

"Yes; I mean she went through it," Carhart said. "She already knows the amount of trauma she went through with the last child.

"So you wouldn't have any problem performing an abortion on her?" Axelrod asked.

"No, certainly not at 21 weeks," Carhart said.

"Is Dr. Carhart going to hell?" Axelrod asked.

"I don't know," Carhart said. "It does not look good."

While not all of his strongest critics condone violence, Carhart is nothing short than evil to them, even if what he is doing is perfectly legal.

"It was the law of the land to round up Jews in Germany and gas them," abortion-rights opponent Larry Donelon told Axelrod. "It was the law of the land to make black people slaves."

The lines are clearly drawn and Leroy Carhart stopped trying to change his critics' minds a long time ago.

"I totally believe in this cause every bit as much as I believe every morning when I got up in the military that I was doing the right thing," Carhart told Axelrod. "If dying for this cause is what I have to do, then that's what I will do."

In fact, the only thing for now that will change is the route he takes to work.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: abortion; moralabsolutes
BTW, Here's a picture of the criminal:

With articles like this, are there any more questions why See BS is in competition with MSLSD for last place in the news?

1 posted on 12/05/2009 3:52:15 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley
It's in the good doctor's blood. If a patient didn't want an abortion and mistakenly came to see the good doctor on another matter then the patient would be aborted.

He has a practice composed of two divisions:

Baby Killing Division (all of the carcass is cleaned up and disposed of)

Euthanasia Division (All brought in for disposal will be humanely and tidily eliminated. No fuss. No muss. Age not an issue.)

2 posted on 12/05/2009 3:59:47 AM PST by IbJensen (Merry Christmas to everyone, especially the ACLU)
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To: markomalley
3,500 abortions a year

If this murderer "works" 200 days a year, that's 17-18 abortions a day, less than 30 minutes per patient. I have trouble viewing assembly-line murder as "caring for" his patients.

3 posted on 12/05/2009 4:01:54 AM PST by TurtleUp ([...Insert today's quote from Community-Organizer-in-Chief...] - Obama, YOU LIE!)
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To: markomalley

“Defends Practice as way of Caring for Women”

Yeah, caring for women at $5-6,000 per hit.


4 posted on 12/05/2009 4:35:39 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: markomalley

A Doctor (if you can call an abortionist that) who makes a living killing others ,worried about being killed.


5 posted on 12/05/2009 4:53:31 AM PST by Venturer
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To: TurtleUp
If he takes two weeks off per year and works seven days a week the rest of the year, that's ten per day, or less than an hour per patient, for what is not an inconsequential procedure. I'm amazed that he hasn't killed several of his patients at that pace.

Women like Sue, an unmarried 28-year-old mother of three, come from around the country. She's somewhere between 21 and 23 weeks pregnant. She's aborting because she put her last baby up for adoption and had a nervous breakdown. She waited so long because she didn't have the money.

As far as this crazy b!tch is concerned, by now, after being impregnated at least four times by (probably) various semi-strangers, I'm sure she knows what carries the germ. I'm sure my tax dollars have paid for every one of her mistakes (bad choices).

Sometimes the liberals are right - this country does suck - because of what they've done to our culture and our politics.

6 posted on 12/05/2009 5:31:38 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Maureen Dowd is right. I DON'T like our President's color. He's a Red.)
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To: TurtleUp

That makes him one of the worst serial killers in the entire history of inhumanity.


7 posted on 12/05/2009 6:32:43 AM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: markomalley
That may sound selfish to a lot of people . . .

Killing your baby because anything else is too much bother for you? Selfish? Oh, no!

8 posted on 12/05/2009 8:01:34 AM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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