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FORMER ABORTIONIST TO BE WITNESS AGAINST 'MASS MURDER'

Says abortion clinics no different than Nazi gas chambers

JACKSONVILLE, FL (Dec. 28, 2000) –– A former abortionist and medical
director for the Planned Parenthood of Jacksonville will be sharing the
platform with the Rector of St. Peter's Church during the sermons at the 8
a.m. and 10:30 a.m. worship services, Sunday, January 28.

The occasion is St. Peter's participation in the annual "Sanctity of Human
Life Week," January 21-28, a nation-wide effort by Focus On The Family to
have churches and ministries focus on abortion and euthanasia issues.

The former abortionist is St. Peter's own Dr. Kathi Aultman, now a born again Christian, who has no qualms about equating the work done in abortion clinics with the work done in the gas chambers during the Nazi-era holocaust in Germany.

Dr. Aultman's personal experiences as a physician, and as a woman who has had an abortion, have contributed to her unique competency as an expert witness at U.S. Senate briefings, before various state legislatures, and for various states in court cases defending their laws against partial birth abortion.

"At the time I did abortions," Dr. Aultman says, "I believed that the availability of abortion on demand was an issue of women's rights –– the
 right to choose. I felt that a woman should have control over her own body, and not be forced to bear a child she did not want."

"My commitment to women's issues was strengthened as I was subjected to discrimination inherent in medical school, and as I was exposed to the
plight of indigent women in my OB-Gyn residency," according to Dr. Aultman.

"As I watched the terror in the face of a 12-year-old in labor, I became
convinced that no one should be forced to carry a pregnancy she did not
want. I also believed that we should not bring unwanted children into an
overpopulated world where they would be neglected or abused."

Dr. Aultman says she discovered that most doctors can only do abortions for a few years. "As they sort through the tissue at the end of each procedure, they see the broken bodies," she says. "They may rationalize it, but they can't deny the slaughter and, eventually, most of them are affected to the point that they have to stop."

Eventually, Dr. Aultman stopped. But she still had no qualms about referring women for abortions. "I couldn't bring myself to do them any more," she says, but "I still felt it was a woman's right to choose." And, she continued the referrals even after declaring herself born again.

It wasn't until after reading a Right To Life article comparing abortion with the Nazi holocaust that Dr. Aultman "saw myself for the first time as a
mass murderer."

"At first," she says, "I wasn't interested in reading it because I felt it was written by fanatics." Eventually, however, she did, and "I was convinced
that there was no difference between the two except that abortions were much easier to accomplish."

Dr. Aultman says she came to understand "how the Nazis were able to coolly exterminate so many people. I even understood how they could justify the atrocious experiments they performed in the name of science." She says she understood these things when "I looked at my previous attitudes and behavior" regarding abortion.

"From a scientific standpoint, life begins at conception," according to Dr.
Aultman and "all the necessary genetic information is present for a unique
human being." At the time most first trimester abortions are done, "all of
the major organ systems are formed and the fetus can feel and respond to
pain," she says.

"I am now convinced that abortion is murder, and no different than infanticide or any other homicide," Dr. Aultman says, and it is that
conviction that makes her speak out.

The speaking out is not always easy, and has taken a toll on Dr. Aultman's
Orange Park medical practice. She says public speaking and testifying does
not come naturally, and the thought of doing so sometimes makes her
physically ill. By refusing to perform abortions she is turning away
revenue, and the revenue she loses for time spent providing expert witness
testimony is not offset by the minimal fees she sometimes receives.

Dr. Aultman's testimony at St. Peter's on January 28 will give witness to
both her emotional journey from abortionist to the long time it took her "to
believe that God could really forgive me" and then the ways God has inspired her to overcome her fear of speaking out against abortion.

"I had prayed for God to let me be anonymous," Dr. Aultman says. "He has had other plans."

And to those who may want to make other plans for that Sunday because they believe as Dr. Aultman once did –– that abortion is a woman's rights issue and women should have the right to choose for themselves –– she says they should consider the following: "They would not allow someone to open a clinic to quietly dispose of difficult or mentally deficient two year-olds. We don't permit parents to abuse or kill their newborns, and yet we are silent as our country moves toward unrestrictive abortion up until the time of birth for any reason, including sex selection. I submit that there is not any difference."