RH Reality Check: Carhart Stands Firm Amidst Protests

September 3, 2009 - 7:00am

The biggest "pro-life" proponent in Bellevue, Neb., didn't join the phalanx of 65 anti-choice protesters on the sidewalk next to Dr. Leroy Carhart's clinic over the weekend. He was too busy providing reproductive health care to dozens of women inside.

"I tell many of the people that I talk to I've been in Nebraska doing abortions for 21 years" said Carhart. "On an average day, I have the same eight protesters.

"In the same period of time, I've seen over 60,000 Nebraska women. They've all come with at least one partner, maybe two people that are supporting them. So that means there's 180,000 Nebraskans that have been personally involved with abortion. But skew the questions, they say, well, 51 percent of the people say they're pro-life and 49 percent say they're pro-choice. But of the 51 percent of people who say they're pro-life, I'm there too.

"I think you can be both. And people answer it that way."

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"I think every mother we see here is pro-life," said Carhart. "She wants the best that she can do for her family. We believe that woman have been given not the right but the responsibility to take care of their families. And part of that responsibility, that I think is God given, is that they have to know what they can handle."

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Carhart stated without hesitation that radicalized anti-choice groups are nothing more than domestic terrorists with a political agenda. "They want to achieve their goals ... by enticing or encouraging other people to act on their behalf because of their lies."

"Nothing that they do is legal," said Carhart. "Nothing that they do is moral. Nothing that they do is religious."

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