"Abortion Workers and Psychological Stress".(Brief Article)

The use of the gas chambers in the Nazi holocaust is common knowledge. What is not so commonly known, however, is the reason why the method of killing was changed from shooting to gassing. And that reason reveals a frightening parallel with what is going on in the abortion industry today.

In the documents of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, we read the following excerpt:

"Women and children were to be executed with the men. In this respect, the Einsatzgruppen leaders encountered a difficulty they had not anticipated. Many of the enlisted men were husbands and fathers, and they winced as they pulled their triggers on these helpless creatures who reminded them of their own wives and offspring at home. ... This was hard on the executioners, personnel experts reported to the RSHA in Berlin, and to relieve their emotional sensitivity, gas vans were sent to the rescue." ("XI: Opinion and Judgment: Appropriation of Personal Methods of Execution: Part 2, United States of America v. Otto Ohlendorf, et al. (Case 9: `Einsatzgruppen Case'). District of Columbia: GPO, 1950. pp. 448-453.)

Gassing was not bloody, and took place behind the closed doors of the vans. It reduced the stress placed on the killers.

Abortion practitioners publicly admit a similar emotional stress on the clinic workers who have to deal with the body parts of aborted babies. In the book Second Trimester Abortion: Perspectives After a Decade of Experience (Berger, Brenner, Keith, eds., Martinus ...