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**Bernard Nathanson Dead at 84 **
‘I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.’ After putting thousands of unborn children to death, he became one of the great leaders of the pro-life movement.
"NEW YORK — Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, an obstetrician who oversaw the performance of about 75,000 abortions before becoming a leading pro-life advocate and a convert to the Catholic faith, died at his home in New York Feb. 21 after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 84.
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In his 1996 autobiography The Hand of God, he told the story of his journey from pro-abortion to pro-life, saying that viewing images from the new ultrasound technology in the 1970s convinced him of the humanity of the unborn baby. Outlining the enormous challenge of restoring a pro-life ethic, he wrote, “Abortion is now a monster so unimaginably gargantuan that even to think of stuffing it back into its cage … is ludicrous beyond words. Yet that is our charge — a herculean endeavor.”
He noted, regretfully, “I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.”
…"
“May the angels take him into paradise.
May the martyrs come to welcome him on his way
and lead him into the Holy City, Jerusalem…
May the choirs of angels welcome him,
and with Lazurus who once was poor, may he have everlasting rest.”
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him…
May his soul and all the souls of the faithfully departed rest in peace.
Amen.
**Bernard Nathanson Dead at 84 **
‘I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.’ After putting thousands of unborn children to death, he became one of the great leaders of the pro-life movement.
"NEW YORK — Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, an obstetrician who oversaw the performance of about 75,000 abortions before becoming a leading pro-life advocate and a convert to the Catholic faith, died at his home in New York Feb. 21 after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 84.
…
In his 1996 autobiography The Hand of God, he told the story of his journey from pro-abortion to pro-life, saying that viewing images from the new ultrasound technology in the 1970s convinced him of the humanity of the unborn baby. Outlining the enormous challenge of restoring a pro-life ethic, he wrote, “Abortion is now a monster so unimaginably gargantuan that even to think of stuffing it back into its cage … is ludicrous beyond words. Yet that is our charge — a herculean endeavor.”
He noted, regretfully, “I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.”
…"
“May the angels take him into paradise.
May the martyrs come to welcome him on his way
and lead him into the Holy City, Jerusalem…
May the choirs of angels welcome him,
and with Lazurus who once was poor, may he have everlasting rest.”
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him…
May his soul and all the souls of the faithfully departed rest in peace.
Amen.
