As a physician in Troy, NY, I performed abortions in
my office for eight years. I believed it was  "pro-woman" to provide this option. While abortion  was never a major part of my practice, as time went  on it caused me more and more conflict.

My wife and I were seeking to adopt a child, and all  the while I was throwing other people's children in the garbage at the rate of 9 or 10 a week. I began to think,  "If only one of these women could give us her child."

Eventually, my wife and I were successful in adopting a healthy girl, Heather. On June 23, 1984,  Heather was hit by a car and died. When you lose your child, life is very different. Everything
changes. That's when things really changed for me regarding abortion. I realized as never before that the child I was killing in each abortion was somebody's precious child. My own  loss enabled me to value life even more.

I began to feel like a paid assassin..and that's exactly what I was. My self-esteem  plummeted, and so did my interest in doing abortions. In 1985 I stopped.

I now speak publicly about my pro-life convictions. I want the general public to know, for YOU to know what the doctors know: that this is a person.

By his public witness on behalf of the pre-born, Dr. Levatino is helping to lift our society out of the  darkness in which he himself was once enslaved. And he knows the grace and forgiveness of God.

 -Fr. Pavone

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