The Next Generation of Pro-Lifers

My daughter Alice did a great blog entry on the life issues that included a hats off to her mom which I appreciated and a very old photo of me chained to an abortion mill table in Dr. Milan Vuitch's abortuary in D.C.

Vuitch was responsible for the legalization of childkilling in Washington, D.C. He went from performing illegal abortions in his "back alley" basement just blocks from the White House to hanging a shingle out for his front alley killing center after abortion was legalized. He quipped to one friend of mine during a phone conversation that he'd kill black babies for free. He didn't just kill babies, however, he killed a number of women as well. Vuitch had hundreds of health violations but the city continued renewing his license until 1982 after which he operated without one. WDVM-TV did an expose on Vuitch in 1984 which uncovered scores of health problems: filth, use of outdated drugs, serious medical complications, storing dead babies in the refrigerator next to food, etc.

Vuitch, like all abortionists, was a bottom feeder, but to the world he was a hero. It's ironic to think he would have gladly performed an abortion on Barack Obama's mother, eliminating the candidate of hope's future. I doubt if Vuitch's setting up his abortuary in D.C. had much to do with altruism. Killing black babies was apparently something he enjoyed doing.

But he missed one the day we sat in. Linda, a beautiful black woman, chose life for her baby after talking to a dear friend of mine, Brigid, outside the mill. She said she knew they were lying when they told her the baby was "just a blob of cells." Brigid later became the baby's godmother. I still have a picture of Linda's baby being held by my son Neil who was only four at the time. Linda's little daughter was born January 22, 1979, the sixth anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Was that a reminder from the Lord of the importance of what we do? I think so and it still gives me chills to remember it.

Thanks, Alice, for the reminder.