By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer  A Spanish newspaper has published the incredible story of a Serbian abortionist who became pro-life after suffering from recurring dreams about the more than 48,000 children he murdered in the Yugoslavian abortuaries. According to a report by the Catholic News Agency (CNA) Stojan Adasevic spent 26 years as one of Yugoslavia’s most renowned abortionists before a series of strange dreams gradually began to convict him of his sin. Adasevic, who was raised under a communist regime, told the Spanish daily La Razon that medical textbooks presented abortions as merely the removal of a blob of tissue. “Ultrasounds allowing the fetus to be seen did not arrive until the 80s,” the paper reported, “but they did not change his opinion. Nevertheless, he began to have nightmares.” Adasevic said he began to “dream about a beautiful field full of children and young people who were playing and laughing, from four to 24 years of age, but who ran away from him in fear. A man dressed in a black and white habit stared at him in silence. The dream was repeated each night and he would wake up in a cold sweat. “One night he asked the man in black and white who he was. ‘My name is Thomas Aquinas,’ the man in his dream responded. Adasevic, educated in communist schools, had never heard of the Dominican genius saint.  He didn’t recognize the name” In the dream, St. Thomas asked him, “Why don’t you ask me who these children are?” When he did so, St. Thomas replied, “These are the ones you killed with your abortions,’ “Adasevic awoke in amazement and decided not to perform any more abortions,” the article stated. However, that same day a cousin came to the hospital with his four months-pregnant girlfriend, who wanted to get her ninth abortion—something quite frequent in the countries of the Soviet bloc. Dr. Adasevic agreed. “Instead of removing the fetus piece by piece,” the paper reported, “he decided to chop it up and remove it as a mass. However, the baby’s heart came out still beating. Adasevic realized then that he had killed a human being,” After this experience, Adasevic “told the hospital he would no longer perform abortions. Never before had a doctor in Communist Yugoslavia refused to do so.  They cut his salary in half, fired his daughter from her job, and did not allow his son to enter the university.” After years of pressure and on the verge of giving up, he had another dream about St. Thomas.   “You are my good friend, keep going,’ the man in black and white told him.  Adasevic became involved in the pro-life movement and was able to get Yugoslav television to air the film ‘The Silent Scream,’ by Doctor Bernard Nathanson, two times.” Adasevic has told his story in magazines and newspapers throughout Eastern Europe. He has returned to the Orthodox faith of his childhood and has studied the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. “Influenced by Aristotle, Thomas wrote that human life begins forty days after fertilization,” Adasevic wrote in one article. La Razon commented that Adasevic “suggests that perhaps the saint wanted to make amends for that error.”  © All Rights Reserved, Living His Life Abundantly/Women of Grace. http://www.womenofgrace.com