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Only anecdotal information is available on why doctors decide to perform abortions. Some samples include:

Only anecdotal information is available on why doctors decide to perform abortions. Some samples include:

*Canadian abortionist Garson "Gary" Romalis credits seeing women suffer and die from criminal and self-induced abortions as his motivation for performing abortions legally and therefore, presumably, safely.<ref>[http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=283931 "Why I am an abortion doctor", ''National Post'', February 3, 2008]</ref>

*Canadian abortionist Garson "Gary" Romalis credits seeing women suffer and die from [[illegal abortion | criminal and self-induced abortions]] as his motivation for performing abortions legally and therefore, presumably, safely.<ref>[http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=283931 "Why I am an abortion doctor", ''National Post'', February 3, 2008]</ref>

*Notorious Kansas late-term abortionist [[George Tiller]] reported mixed motives: honoring the memory of his late father, who had done abortions in his own practice, and the oft-cited motive of wanting to spare women injury or death from criminal abortions.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller#Background George Tiller at Wikipedia]</ref>

*Notorious Kansas [[late term abortion | late-term abortionist]] [[George Tiller]] reported mixed motives: honoring the memory of his late father, who had done abortions in his own practice, and the oft-cited motive of wanting to spare women injury or death from criminal abortions.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller#Background George Tiller at Wikipedia]</ref>

*Chatoor Bisal Singh, who made the news when he botched two abortions, one of them fatally<ref>[http://realchoice.0catch.com/library/weekly/aa040901d.htm Christina Dunigan, "Tea and Sympathy", RealChoice, April 9, 2001]</ref>, told the Miami Herald that he didn't usually work at the Dadeland abortion facility, but was "strapped for cash" and agreed to fill in for Robert Kast while he was away. Singh described himself as "not an abortionist, just an honest, easygoing guy looking for something temporary.<ref>''Miami Herald'', September 17, 1989</ref>

*Chatoor Bisal Singh, who made the news when he botched two abortions, one of them fatally<ref>[http://realchoice.0catch.com/library/weekly/aa040901d.htm Christina Dunigan, "Tea and Sympathy", RealChoice, April 9, 2001]</ref>, told the ''Miami Herald'' that he didn't usually work at the Dadeland abortion facility, but was "strapped for cash" and agreed to fill in for abortionist Robert Kast while he was away. Singh described himself as "not an abortionist, just an honest, easygoing guy looking for something temporary."<ref>''Miami Herald'', September 17, 1989</ref>

*Former abortionist Anthony Levatino performed abortions on his patients as an ob/gyn because he'd been trained to do so and, until his conversion to the pro-life cause, simply saw it as a treatment doctors provided as their patients requested it<ref>[http://www.prolifeaction.org/providers/levatino.php Anthony Levatino, ''Meet the Abortion Providers'', Pro-Life Action League]</ref>

*[[Reformed abortionists | Former abortionist]] Anthony Levatino performed abortions on his patients as an ob/gyn because he'd been trained to do so and, until his conversion to the pro-life cause, simply saw it as a treatment doctors provided as their patients requested it<ref>[http://www.prolifeaction.org/providers/levatino.php Anthony Levatino, ''Meet the Abortion Providers'', Pro-Life Action League]</ref>

*Abortionist Steven Chase Brigham, having failed as a general practitioner and in his attempts to operate a smoking-cessation clinic<ref>[http://w3.health.state.ny.us/opmc/factions.nsf/58220a7f9eeaafab85256b180058c032/8328b3f301e2834185256a4a0047c608/$FILE/ATTELT7I/lc172457.pdf State of New York Department of Health State Board for Professional Medical Conduct, Statement of Charges in the matter of Steven Chase Brigham, January 4, 1994]</ref>, turned to abortion and became a multi-state abortion entrepreneur.<ref>[http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100903_Doctor_s_four-state_abortion_business_under_investigation.html Marie McCullough, "Doctor's four-state abortion business under investigation", ''Philadelphia Enquirer'', September 3, 2010]</ref>

*Abortionist [[Steven Chase Brigham]], having failed as a [[general practitioner]] and in his attempts to operate a smoking-cessation clinic<ref>[http://w3.health.state.ny.us/opmc/factions.nsf/58220a7f9eeaafab85256b180058c032/8328b3f301e2834185256a4a0047c608/$FILE/ATTELT7I/lc172457.pdf State of New York Department of Health State Board for Professional Medical Conduct, Statement of Charges in the matter of Steven Chase Brigham, January 4, 1994]</ref>, turned to abortion and became a multi-state abortion entrepreneur.<ref>[http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100903_Doctor_s_four-state_abortion_business_under_investigation.html Marie McCullough, "Doctor's four-state abortion business under investigation", ''Philadelphia Enquirer'', September 3, 2010]</ref>

*Brigham's chain of facilities, [http://www.americanwomensservices.com/ American Women's Services], recruited abortion doctors with the promise of easy money:

*Brigham's chain of facilities, [http://www.americanwomensservices.com/ American Women's Services], recruited abortion doctors with the promise of easy money: