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Doctor who shaped modern anti-abortion movement dies at 89

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CINCINNATI — Dr. John Willke, an obstetrician who helped shape the modern anti-abortion movement with ideas including a belief that a woman can resist conception from a sexual assault, has died, his daughter said Saturday. He was 89.


Willke, who founded the International Right to Life Federation, died Friday at his home in Cincinnati, daughter Marie Meyers said. She said the cause of death wasn't immediately known, but that he had seemed in good health for his age.


"The core of his life was caring for people as a husband, a father and a doctor, and that caring extended to his life work for unborn children and their mothers," Meyers said. Read more...


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