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‘What I Saw that Day Shouldn’t Be Allowed in this Country’

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by Tracy Moran, Register correspondent Sunday, Nov 16, 1997 11:00 AM Comment

Why ob-gyn nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer changed her mind about ‘a woman's right to choose’

Brenda Pratt Shafer stood in the delivery room as her first grandchild was born last summer, overcome with joy.

But at the baby's birth, “it all came flooding back,” she says of the haunting three days in September 1993 when she assisted at Dr. Martin Haskell's Dayton, Ohio, abortion clinic.

Pratt Shafer, 40,...

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