Abortionist haunted by dreams of torn-apart babies

wnd.com Dr. William Rashbaum performed thousands of abortions, both early and late-term, during his career before his death in 2005. As a young physician, Rashbaum was regularly called to attend women who had been seriously injured by illegal abortions. Following the legalization of abortion in 1973, he performed the procedure in New York City and taught abortion techniques to thousands of medical students, residents and practicing physicians. He also trained hundreds of physicians to handle challenging cases arising from late-term abortions. As an older man, Rashbaum was “fiercely protective of those in need of his services and [had] absolutely no patience for those doubting their motivations,” according to a 2003 Mother Jones article. He performed abortions other doctors wouldn’t do because of technical difficulties. The article admitted what troubled doctors with late-term abortions was not just the technical aspects, but “as a pregnancy progresses, the fetus increasingly resembles a baby.”... In a 1977 interview with the New York Times Magazine, Rashbaum told the reporter “he sometimes had troubling thoughts while doing abortions, as well as disturbing dreams about aborted babies.” “One image that often haunted him was the mental picture of a pre-born baby hanging onto the walls of her mother’s womb with her tiny fingernails as Rashbaum tried to abort her,” wrote Sarah Terzo on Live Action News.