Pro-life groups were angry last month when Dr. Alberto Hodari was invited to Michigan's Wayne State University to give a speech entitled "Why I Am An Abortion Provider."
At her "Pro-Life Pulse" blog, Jill Stanek linked to a site that blames Dr. Hodari for the deaths of two patients, including 15-year-old Tamia Russell. (More on Tamia's death here.)
Students For Life of America obtained video of the Wayne State speech, in which Dr. Hodari says:
I have great satisfaction of what I do, and I never feel bad or worried about doing abortions.Here's a short video clip including that quote, as well as Dr. Hodari boasting that doctors have "a license to lie."
Here's the full video of the speech, which is about 50 minutes long:
In a press release, Students For Life noted that, about 12 minutes into the video, Dr. Hodari "spoke about how little he washed between abortions because it chafed his hands":
"To hear Hodari speak, one wonders if Michigan is the third world," SFLA Executive Director Kristan Hawkins said. "Planned Parenthood complains about 'back-alley' abortions, even though Hodari is running a business where he's barely washing his hands between abortions."Dr. Hodari's speech was sponsored by Medical Students for Choice, which warns about "a dangerous shortage of trained abortion providers."
Student President Ashley Tyndall said, "Several women have died while getting abortions with Hodari, and yet the Michigan board of health has never investigated him. How many women have to die before the bureaucrats start telling Hodari to wash his hands and tell patients the truth."
— Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times
Comments (6)
If only society could value human life as much as it values "choice" this man would have no audience and no profits for his audacious disregard for the lives of innocent children and their mothers.
Posted by sg | December 12, 2007 2:29 PM
A country that tortures and commits wars of aggression should not be whining about abortion.
Posted by Jerald | December 13, 2007 1:26 PM
God bless you for posting this! It's about time somebody in the mainstream media had the courage and integrity to show American abortion practice with all its warts.
And Jerald, it's very revealing that you consider lamenting the deaths of two young mothers -- one of them a 15-year-old statutory rape victim -- "whining". Would you have the courage to tell Tamia's mom to her face that she should "stop whining"?
Posted by Christina | December 14, 2007 6:04 AM
Jerald, "a country" isn't the one "whining about abortion." Would that it was. It's many of the people in this country who are "whining about" abortion, AND torture and further, ALL wars are about committing aggression (the question is rather "Is it justifiable aggression or not?").
As to that issue, I'm not in favor of war generally, but you seem to be of the persuasion that ignores the year-old New York Times report (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?ex=1168059600&en=9a2a137713ed70a0&ei=5070 ) which showed that "Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein's scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away."
When those of your persuasion vilify "a country" (i.e., its current administration) for not stopping nuclear aggression by North Korea (which was all the hue and cry until recently), but also blame it for knocking off another dictator found to be one year away from being able to enact the same thing, those of your persuasion lose a huge amount of credibility.
Posted by Annie B | December 14, 2007 9:13 AM
Sorry, but neither Iraq nor North Korea posed any physical or economic threats to USA. You have to admit that the Americans made some terrible mistakes the past few years.
Plus it commits torture. Don't deny that you guys are the laughingstock of the world these days.
Posted by Jerald | December 16, 2007 11:49 AM
So Jerald, it's not okay to torture terroists who bring down buildings and harm our country and loved ones, but it is okay to kill innocent human babies.
Wow!
Posted by Lynn Ann | February 3, 2008 7:00 PM