Pictured: Dr Kathi Aultman at the March or Life 2026 in Washington D.C.

After years of performing abortions and undergoing one personally, Dr Kathi Aultman now dedicates her life to defending unborn babies. 

Today, instead of carrying out abortions, she appears before lawmakers, contributes to abortion-related research, and, as an associate scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute, educates the public about the physical and emotional harms of abortion.

Like so many doctors, nurses and ancillary staff in recent years who have stopped participating in abortions, Dr Aultman has undergone a truly remarkable transformation.

Despite the toll of the many babies whose lives she ended, she held firmly to her “pro-choice” stance for years. That began to change, however, when she reflected more deeply on the value of her own child, forcing her to confront the reality that abortion involves two lives. Eventually, she reached a point where she accepted that she could no longer “kill babies just because they weren’t wanted.”

Another moment that proved pivotal in forcing her change of heart occurred when a woman undergoing an abortion bluntly told her, “I just want to kill it.” Aultman recalls: “It just struck me, you know, how could she be so hostile and angry towards this little baby. It hadn’t done anything wrong. That really affected me.”

In a recent interview, she took issue with the argument that abortion is necessary for success, saying: “I was one of those women who believed that women had to have abortion in order to succeed. That was a lie. It wasn’t true. You don’t have to have an abortion in order to be a professional and to be able to succeed. … I can’t tell you how many professional women I know who had their babies first or during their career. You can have both.”