Bernard Nathanson

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Bernard Nathanson

Bernard Nathanson (born July 31, 1926 in New York City , † February 21, 2011 ) was an American doctor and life rights activist. He gained international fame through his film Der stumme Schrei ( The silent Scream ).

Life

Bernard Nathanson studied medicine in Montreal , Canada, at McGill University and received his doctorate there in 1949. He campaigned for the liberalization of abortion in the United States and was one of the co-founders of the National Abortion Rights Action League , which advocates the decriminalization of abortion entered. In the 1970s he ran one of the largest abortion clinics in the United States. In the late 1970s, he began to have increasing doubts about the moral justification of abortions, which is why he carried out fewer and fewer abortions himself. An ultrasound recorded abortion resulted in his final refusal. In 1984 he edited the documentary film The silent Scream , which shows an ultrasound-recorded abortion. The film created a great deal of controversy over the legality of abortion in the United States. In his later life he became active in the US American rights movement and converted to the Roman Catholic Church on December 8, 1996 as part of his stance on abortion .

His documentary The silent Scream appeared in many countries and languages.

Works

  • Aborting America , 1979, Doubleday & Company, Inc .: Garden City. ISBN 0-385-14461-X
  • The Silent Scream (documentary film about abortion, 1984)
  • The silent scream (German dubbing)
  • The Abortion Papers: Inside the Abortion Mentality , 1984, with Adele Nathanson, Hawkes Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-811-90685-X
  • Eclipse of Reason , (1987 documentary film)
  • The Hand of God - A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind , 1996, Regnery Publishing, Inc .: Washington DC ISBN 0-89526-463-3 . German translation: The hand of God. Vienna 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Wallis: Medicine: Silent Scream , Time Magazine, March 25, 1985
  2. ^ Robert T. Zintl: Abortion: New Heat Over an Old Issue , Time Magazine, February 4, 1985
  3. ↑ Stephen Vincent: Bernard Nathanson Dead at 84 , National Catholic Register, February 21, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Nathanson, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor and life rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2011
Place of death New York City