LeRoy Harrison Carhart (born 1941) is an American physician from Nebraska who became well-known for his participation in the Supreme Court cases Stenberg v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Carhart, both of which dealt with intact dilation and extraction (colloquially known as partial birth abortion), a controversial abortion procedure.
Carhart is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and one of only three abortion providers in the state of Nebraska. He is a g...
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LeRoy Harrison Carhart (born 1941) is an American physician from Nebraska who became well-known for his participation in the Supreme Court cases Stenberg v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Carhart, both of which dealt with intact dilation and extraction (colloquially known as partial birth abortion), a controversial abortion procedure.
Carhart is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and one of only three abortion providers in the state of Nebraska. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and a 1973 graduate of Hahnemann University School of Medicine (now Drexel University College of Medicine).
On September 6, 1991, the day of the passage of the Nebraska Parental Notification Law, arsonists targeted Carhart's farm, setting fire to his home and a 48-stall barn, along with two other buildings and numerous vehicles. The attack killed two family pets and 17 horses. The fire, which had started in seven different locations on Carhart's property, was never deemed arson and no one was prosecuted. Carhart...
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