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December 22, 1986, I was with 4 other prolifers retrieving garbage bags from the back of an abortion clinic in the Washington, DC area. We were not dumpster-diving for aborted babies. Actually, we were looking for records --- paperwork --- that might help us document fraud: either non-reporting of the number of abortions (a discrepancy between appointments and reported abortions), or Medicaid fraud.

But just tossed in with everything else in the Hefty bag -- half-eated hamburgers, newspapers, Christmas cards (yes!)--- there were damp wads of gauze. And when we examined those wads, we found the bodies. I reemember one arm and hand, strecthed out the length of my little finger. Livers, legs, heads with little blue eyeballs.

Maybe I should say I was shocked, but I was not. I was numb. I kept thinking, "Lord, have mercy." Yeah, 26 years ago and I now I've got tears in my eyes.

Thank you for sharing such a personal story and its impact on your life. One of my family's friends is an OB/GYN. As a part of his medical training, Dr. Levatino was taught to do abortions. He provided abortions for his patients in his office for eight years. In 1985 he quit doing abortions and is now in private practice as an obstetrician gynecologist. He not only became pro-life but spoke before the US Congress in defense of life. You can read his story here.

Perhaps the one story that continues to amaze me, however, is that of Serbian abortionist, Stojan Adasevic.

In describing his conversion, Adasevic said he "dreamed about a beautiful field full of children and young people who were playing and laughing, from 4 to 24 years of age, but who ran away from him in fear. A man dressed in a black and white habit stared at him in silence. The dream was repeated each night and he would wake up in a cold sweat. One night he asked the man in black and white who he was. ‘My name is Thomas Aquinas,’ the man in his dream responded. Adasevic, educated in communist schools, had never heard of the Dominican genius saint. He didn’t recognize the name."

Serbian Abortionist Who Aborted 48,000 Babies Becomes Pro-Life Activist

When we think of Thomas Aquinas, we normally associate him with his Summa. It is intriguing to see his intervention on abortion.