The retired OB-GYN and associate scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute now marches for life every year.
(NCR) Dr. Kathi Aultman performed abortions for years — until the experience of giving birth to her own child made her realize she could not “kill babies just because they weren’t wanted.”
“Unfortunately, I was still very pro-choice, even after I became a Christian,” she recalled to the Register at the March for Life 2026.
For a while after her conversion she still thought that decision was a woman’s to make.
But, one day, a friend asked her to read an article about the topic.
“It compared abortion to the Holocaust, and my father had been with the unit that liberated the first concentration camp in World War II, and I realized that I could kill babies for the same reason that the Nazis could kill their victims — because we didn’t see them as human beings. Suddenly, I realized I was a mass murderer, and I stopped completely.”
The retired OB-GYN and associate scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute now marches for life every year and has even given her testimony at the March for Life Rally.
“I come so people know that there are pro-life doctors. Abortion is not health care, and we want people to understand that it harms women and kills babies. We’re the ones who see all the complications from abortions, both psychological and physical,” she said.
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After working in the abortion industry for years — and having had an abortion herself — Aultman emphasized that the impacts of the procedure last for a long time.
“Right now, women are told, ‘That’s the easy solution.’ ‘If the timing isn’t right, just have an abortion; you can try again later.’ But you never lose those scars.”
“We have a forgiving God, and he’s forgiven me, and I know it. But I still carry the burden, because not only did I kill other people’s babies, I had an abortion, so I killed my own child. … Women cannot remain unscathed after killing their child,” emphasized Aultman.
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The OB-GYN also hopes to inspire young women to embrace motherhood.
“You don’t have to have an abortion in order to be a professional and to be able to succeed. I killed my baby because it was right before medical school, and I thought that if I didn’t have an abortion, I wouldn’t be able to become a doctor. But when I went to medical school, I met all these women who had their children first and then went to medical school, and I can’t tell you how many professional women I know who had their babies first or during their career. You can have both.”
Editor's note: This article was published by the National Catholic Register and is reprinted with permission.
