Haywood Robinson On His ‘Radical Transformation’ From Abortionist To Pro-Life Doctor

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Dr. Haywood Robinson joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to share his evolution from moonlighting as an abortionist to becoming a health care provider and activist who values life beginning at conception.

You can find Robinson's book "The Scalpel And The Soul: Our Radical Transformation As Husband And Wife Abortion Doctors," which he co-authored with his late wife Dr. Noreen Johnson, here.

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:19.8	I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.
0:22.8	As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com.
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0:28.7	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts and to the premium version of our website as well.
0:34.6	Today we're joined by Dr. Haywood Robinson along with his wife, Dr. Nareen Johnson.
0:40.0	He is out with a new book called The Scalpel and the Soul.
0:44.7	As a former abortionist who became a dedicated pro-life advocate, Dr. Robinson presents in this book a unique and thought-provoking perspective
0:52.9	that is sure to generate deeply insightful and engaging dialogue for your audience according to his publisher, Dr. Robinson.
1:01.2	Thank you for joining us.
1:02.9	It's a blessing to be here. Thank you for having me.
1:06.5	Yeah, you know, obviously the part of your bio that I just read that probably grabbed a lot of people's attention is the former abortionist element of it.
1:15.8	And I know that plays a huge role in the book.
1:19.4	Can you tell us a little bit about your background?
1:22.0	Folks should of course buy the book and get the full story, but you could tell us a little bit about your background and how you ended up in the position where you were, you know, a medical professional performing abortions.
1:35.6	Well, let's do our best to do a, a reader's digest version for a couple of minutes, basically more than raised in Southern California.
1:44.9	Wanted to be a physician ever since I was about four or five years old.
1:49.0	I don't know where that came from because none of my family was educated.
1:54.0	I went through high school, college, medical school, returned to my community to do residency in family medicine.
2:04.7	And on the family medicine rotation of, or the OBGYN rotation of the family medicine residency, abortion training or learning to do the procedure that's a DNC is something that you learn.
2:21.3	Now, many of the people in the audience may have had DNC's for miscarriage to empty the uterus of the products of conception.
2:31.4	So there's not bleeding and infection, but the same procedure can be used to destroy a normal pregnancy.
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