Creator of partial-birth abortion was a "Catholic" from California

Altar boy gone bad

Dr. James T. McMahon, the physician credited with developing the procedure now called “partial birth abortion,” was owner of the now defunct Eve Surgery Center in Los Angeles, an abortion clinic. McMahon, a former altar boy, died in 1995 from a brain aneurysm – and, though unrepentant until the end, was nonetheless given a Catholic funeral and buried at Holy Martyrs Field in Holy Cross Cemetery, owned by the Los Angeles archdiocese.

McMahon, who began performing abortions in California in 1972, called himself the “pioneer of partial birth abortion.”. . .

“McMahon ... developed his own method [of]...intrauterine cranial decompression...”