Warren Hern

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Warren Martin Hern (born 1938) is an American physician best known for performing late terminations of pregnancy. [1] In 1973, he founded Boulder Abortion Clinic in Boulder, Colorado. Hern was a founding member of the National Abortion Federation, and authored Abortion Practice, a comprehensive text on operating and evaluating abortion facilities. He and doctors LeRoy Carhart, Shelley Sella, and Susan Robinson were the subject of the 2013 documentary After Tiller about the four providers openly advertising later abortions in the United States after the 2009 assassination of George Tiller.

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Background

Hern took his B.A. at the University of Colorado, in 1961. He triple-majored in Speech, Anthropology, and Chemistry. He attended medical school at the University of Colorado, taking his M.D. in 1965. After earning is MD, degree,he served as a Peace Corps doctor in northeast Brazil for four years.He took his M.P.H. degree at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, in 1971, and his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the same school in 1988.

He has been board certified in Preventive Medicine since 1978.

In 1973, Hern was asked to help found a private, non-profit abortion clinic in Boulder, Colorado. After his position was eliminated, Hern entered into private practice, creating the Boulder Abortion Clinic in 1975. [2] [3]

Academic appointments

Hern holds the following academic appointments [4]

Non-abortion work

Hern travels regularly to Peru, where he works as a volunteer providing medical care to the Shipibo tribe. [5]

Violence against Hern and his clinic

Hern's clinic has been the target of numerous vandalisms and threats, including gunshots fired through his office window. [6] He has been stalked and threatened. [7] His family has been threatened as well. [8] [9]

Solidarity with George Tiller

Hern expressed outrage over the May 31, 2009 killing of George Tiller, a doctor who offered similar services, in Wichita. [10] In the aftermath of Tiller's murder, Hern's clinic has continued to receive threats. [11]

Published works

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References

  1. Rochman, Bonnie (January 21, 2011). "Philly Abortion Horrors: What Matters Is How and Not When an Abortion Is Done, Says Expert". TIME . Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  2. "About Dr. Warren Hern". Archived from the original on 2020-09-21. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  3. Rochman, Bonnie (November 5, 2010). "Late-Term Abortions: Q&A With the Last Remaining Doctor Who Performs Them". TIME. Archived from the original on 2019-11-15. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  4. Dr. Hern's CV
  5. "Warren Hern | People/Characters | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  6. Esquire profile of Dr. Hern
  7. Jackson, Steve (1997-02-13). "The Fight of Their Lives". Westword. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  8. Indictment of Donald Hertz for threatening Dr. Hern
  9. "Man Who Threatened Abortion Doctor Gets Probation". Rewire.News. 2 November 2010. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  10. Luning, Ernest (2009-05-31). "Late-term abortion doctor decries Tiller killing: 'This is a fascist movement'". The Colorado Independent. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  11. "Police: Warren Hern's Boulder Abortion Clinic threatened : County News : ColoradoDaily.com Boulder, CO". 2009-06-27. Archived from the original on 2009-06-27. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  12. "Boulder abortion Clinic" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-11-15.