A HORRIBLE PRICE TO PAY.(psychological stress of abortion providers)(Brief Article)

You will find on this page a reprint of a shocking but extremely insightful column by Fr. Frank Pavone. Fr. Pavone thoughtfully examines the psychic costs exacted of abortion clinic personnel who traffic in the deaths of unborn babies.

What Fr. Pavone first does is to offer excerpts from the testimony given at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. When compared with what abortion clinic personnel have quietly told researchers, we see a clear parallel to what was experienced by at least some of the enlisted men who were part of the "Einsatzgruppen."

Formed by two of Hitler's closet henchmen, the Einsatzgruppen were "mobile killing units" that operated in German-occupied territories during the Second World War. According to Yale F. Edeiken, the Einsatzgruppen murdered over a million men, women, and children.

Neither Fr. Pavone nor I are saying abortion clinic personnel are Nazis. What is at issue is how directly participating in the deaths of innocent people can peel away even the strongest defense mechanisms, leaving individuals exposed to the horror of the acts they are committing.

We don't write much about the emotional toil exacted of abortion clinic personnel. For one thing, there's not a lot out there to base it on. The Abortion Establishment treats this grisly reality strictly on a need-to-know basis only.

Why the hush-hush? Probably because if it became common knowledge that those most intimately involved in abortion are wracked with guilt and tortured by vivid nightmares, what conclusion might ordinary people reach?