‘Utter exhilaration’: An infamous late-term abortionist describes his ‘work’

Retired abortionist Curtis Boyd, who committed as many as 250,000 abortions, including abortions on viable third-trimester babies, gave a talk in Washington, D.C., last month at a bookstore with his wife, retired psychologist Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, who ‘counseled’ her husband’s patients.

The two discussed their recently published memoirs, “We Choose To,” during the talk, and made several shocking statements about their experiences and feelings about abortion — including admitting to feeling “utter exhilaration” and “love” for abortion work.

Dr. Curtis Boyd, MD, Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN — We Choose To - with Melissa Fowler

Killing babies was “euphoric” and “utter exhilaration”

Boyd compared the happiness he experienced in killing preborn babies to the joy of delivering live babies and giving babies to their families.

“It was utter exhilaration,” he said, describing committing abortions. “I never had that feeling other than delivering babies,” Boyd said. Boyd further described the exhilaration he felt when fulfilling women’s desires to kill their children, emphasizing his initial comparison of abortion to childbirth.

“[During birth], the child comes out. It’s alive and healthy… it’s very exhilarating. This [abortion] was like that for me… It was exhilarating for the families and the women. This euphoric feeling, so liberating for them – the power it gave them… controlling their own life… just to kind of guide their destiny.”

Halvorson-Boyd similarly voiced her enthusiasm for abortion work, talking about the couple’s stubborn persistence in committing late-term abortions at their facilities – Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque and Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center in Dallas – for decades, even after an arson attack and patient deaths.

“Once I started doing the work, I fell in love with the work,” Halvorson-Boyd said.

“When the awful things started happening, that stubborn little girl in me [said]… ‘You will not win… I will not be intimidated. I will not be denied, neither will our patients and we will see to that,’” Halvorson-Boyd said. She described her attitude as a symptom of “pissy” feminism.

Both Boyd and his wife discussed how they used “love” to keep their abortion businesses running. “We tried to develop this culture of love,” Boyd said.

Boyd claimed compassion as his motivating force. “You [an abortion worker] have to care about helping people… you have to have compassion… that was what drove me,” Boyd claimed during the recent talk.

A long career based on false compassion

 This bookstore talk was not the first time Boyd used his idea of compassion to justify his actions.

He also appealed to his own warped idea of “compassion” during his deposition for the lawsuit that shut down his business, and in an interview during which he admitted he was “killing,” but that he always prayed that the spirits of the babies he aborted “would be returned to God with love, with understanding.”

Boyd may have tried to use “love” and “understanding” when committing abortions, but the fact is, he intentionally killed hundreds of thousands of fully formed preborn infants, who were capable of surviving outside the womb. Not only that – he harvested these babies’ organs and donated them to the University of New Mexico for research and experimentation. Eventually, Boyd and the University of New Mexico came under investigation after the gruesome baby parts trafficking business was revealed to the public. The University of New Mexico was forced to end its commerce with Southwestern Women’s Options.

Attorney Mike Seibel also brought two lawsuits against Boyd: one on behalf of Jessica Duran, a mother whose aborted child’s remains were donated by Southwestern Women’s Options to the University of New Mexico without her informed consent, and another on behalf of Tina Atkins and Nicole Atkins, mother and sister of 23-year-old Keisha Atkins, who died after a late abortion (at around six months pregnant) she received at Southwestern Women’s Options.

Seibel was profoundly moved by the evil he perceived in Boyd and what the self-proclaimed former Baptist minister was doing, and has dedicated his life to fighting this evil. As previously reported by Live Action News, Seibel first heard about Boyd’s late-term abortion empire in 2015,  when Boyd claimed he was sending the “spirit” of the babies he killed “to God with love and understanding.”

“I was so mad — it was so blasphemous, I knew I had to do something,” Seibel said. As a result, “For seven and a half years I have fought Boyd because I find it despicable that a doctor would do any abortion, but more despicable that he would perform a third trimester abortion on a viable, healthy baby.”

Seibel went on to win a lawsuit against Boyd and his abortionist employees over Keisha Atkins’ death as a result of the actions of Southwestern Women’s Options. Seibel’s actions eventually helped bring about the toppling of Boyd’s late-term abortion empire, eventually leading to the closure of Boyd’s business in Dallas and the sale of his business in New Mexico.

In his memoirs, Boyd describes the Atkins lawsuit as an “emotional toll on our doctors and staff… greater than I can calculate.”

It is astounding to watch Boyd and his wife applauding their own careers in killing viable preborn children at a D.C. bookstore like beloved, admired celebrities. Such is the blindness brought on by years of abortion work – that such individuals can convince themselves they are moral people while they leave behind a legacy of horror and bloodshed. 

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