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Applause for abortion, applause from hell

By Frank Pavone
Published January 31, 2019 2:44pm ET
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Applause for abortion, applause from hell
ADDS NAMES OF OTHERS WITH CUOMO - In this photo provided by the Office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Cuomo, right, signs Reproductive Health Act Legislation during a ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in the Red Room at the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. With the new law, New York state enacts one of the nation's strongest protections for abortion rights, a move that state leaders say was needed to safeguard those rights should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. Also pictured are attorney Sarah Weddington, front left, who successfully argued Roe v Wade before the Supreme Court; New York State assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, back left; New York State Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, standing center; and Democratic Lt. Gov Kathy Hochul, back right. | (Darren McGee/AP)

I’ll never forget the first time I heard applause from hell.

I was listening to an audiotape of abortionist Martin Haskell giving a presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the National Abortion Federation Conference in 1992 in San Diego. Haskell was describing to his audience how to do a partial-birth abortion. These were his words:

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