The United States Supreme Court, in 1973, legalized abortion to any woman for any reason; however, why do some doctors refuse to provide abortions?

Monday night, Students United For Life, hosted a video entitled “Meet the Abortion Providers.” The video was a collection of personal stories from former abortionists who have changed their moral standing on the issue to becoming Pro-Life activists.

The video revealed the emotional testimony of nine men and women who had either had an abortion, assisted in the abortion procedure or had physically removed the life from the mother.

Of the nine people who shared their stories, some of the most sobering accounts were voiced by: Debby Henry of Detroit, Mich., who had once believed abortion eliminated only a problem and not a baby, Dr. Anthony Levantino of Troy, N.Y., who stopped doing abortions after his adoptive daughter died at 4, Dr. Joseph Randall of Atlanta, Ga., who performed 32,000 abortions and Dr. David Brewer of Glen Ellyn, Ill., who described his heart as “calloused to the fact that he was a murderer” before he converted to Christianity and stopped providing abortions.

The speakers described the “hooking” procedure used for luring in potential customers and making sure they go through with the abortion.

Nita Whitten of Dallas, Texas, disclosed she was trained by a professional marketing director on how to sell abortions, so when the girl called, Whitten hooked the sale so she wouldn’t change her mind.

The speakers agreed the counselor assigned to the girl or woman contemplating an abortion, was not there to befriend her or to help her make the best personal decision.

The counselors were said to be trained not to give alternatives to the women on how to handle the unwanted pregnancy. Rather, the counselors were there to find the woman’s weaknesses and concentrate on them to ensure the sale, Henry said.

“The counselors would find out the pressure point of what was driving the woman to abortion and expand on it,” Kathy Sparks of Granite City, Il., said. “A young girl was told that an abortion would give her back her carefree life.”

Furthermore, to ensure “the sale”, the women are given a medical form, chock-full of medical terms of 30 plus letters “that is simply written to confuse the girl to death,” Carol Everett of Dallas, Texas explained.

“The form’s purpose is to steer the woman away from asking medical questions about the operation and lead her back to asking the traditional first questions, ‘Is it a baby’ and ‘Does it hurt,'” she said.

The speakers observed that 90 percent of the women’s first reaction after the operation is to cry and say aloud, “I’ve killed my baby.”

Levantino remarked the women have all types of emotional scarring, and a lot more than are accounted for suffer infection and/or actual damage to internal organs, due to the operation. The women most times, do not sue the doctor who performed the abortion because they just want to forget about the experience and may want to keep the abortion a secret, he said.

In one documented case, a 32-year-old woman died due to complications from the operation. However no lawsuit developed because the father and family of the woman did not want to deal with it, Dr. Beverly McMillan of Jackson, Miss., said.

“Lord knows how many women are sterile now,” Levantino added.

The speakers described the abortion operation procedures for the different terms and sizes of the fetus.

The doctors noted that if the baby is small enough, they will attempt to remove the placenta and baby with simple medical instruments.

However, if the baby is too large to be removed in this fashion, it is the doctor’s choice to either dismember the baby, or the doctor will inject a saline solution that the baby swallows. The speakers had referred to the use of the saline solution as a slow agonizing death for the baby as its lungs are burned.

Hill’s final thought expressed his belief the abortion providers are “puppets without the courage to say that what they’re doing is wrong.”

A resounding echo of Henry emphatically crying out, “Abortion is murder,” ended the video.

Viewer reactions to the piece were very strongly Pro-Life.

As viewer Neal Landers said, “I feel most people don’t want to face it (the idea of abortion as morally wrong). They learn not to question it.”

Katie Rathke, co-president of Students United For Life, added, “People hear what they want to hear.”