WXYZ.com in Detroit reported Tuesday that the home of Michael Roth, a West Bloomfield abortionist, was raided by police after they found evidence that he had been performing illegal abortions.
Two weeks ago, Roth’s car was impounded after he was involved in a car crash in which a young child was critically injured. Police found 14 containers that might contain human tissue, possibly fetal body parts, in his car. The car also contained sedatives and medical equipment commonly used in abortions. Roth is now under investigation by the Michigan attorney general. He is suspected of performing illegal abortions — in his home or at the homes of customers.
Roth has been involved in several malpractice lawsuits related to botched abortions. In 2012, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs disciplined him for practices that were “below standards of care” including violating Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period and performing at-home abortions.
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This is hardly the first time an abortionist has been arrested for misbehavior. There are plenty of examples of abortionists accused of raping patients, convicted of killing women and infanticide, dispensing illegal drugs and numerous other crimes.
Why does the abortion industry attract such incompetent and unethical people? Some doctors who specialize in abortion are driven by a sincere (if misguided) devotion to women’s health. But others do it for the money or because they can’t practice any other type of medicine.
Infamous late-term abortionist Warren Hern has said, with surprising candor, “Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can’t do anything else.”
In her book Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade, Carole Joffe writes that “The relationship of organized medicine and abortion in the United States has always been marked by strain and ambivalence.”
Joffe interviewed dozens of abortionists, who described lives of awkward dinner party conversations and of parents, children and other family members lying about their occupations. They even told her that medical colleagues would ignore them or give them disapproving looks at conferences and other professional gatherings.
Most abortionists find abortion provision to be professionally alienating. Many also find it be to ethically taxing.
In The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind, Dr. Bernard Nathanson described the anguish he slowly began to feel after years of performing abortions. At one point he asked himself, “Is this what the conscientious, dedicated OB-GYN had spent four years in college, four years in medical school, and at least four more years … in residency training to do?”
For Nathanson, the answer was no. Formerly a leading abortion advocate, Nathanson became a prominent opponent of abortion.
The abortion industry is undergoing a severe shortage of physicians willing to perform abortions. That’s in part because, to put it simply, most people go through the grueling and rigorous training to become physicians in order to preserve life, not to snuff it out.
Daniel Allott is deputy commentary editor for the Washington Examiner
