Warren Martin Hern, Doctor of Medicine, Master of Public Health, Doctor of Philosophy is an American physician best known for performing late-term abortions.
Education
He attended medical school at University of Colorado, taking his Doctor of Medicine He took his Master of Public Health degree at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, in 1971, and his Doctor of Philosophy in epidemiology from the same school in 1988.
Career
In 1973, he founded Boulder Abortion Clinic in Boulder, Colorado. He and doctors LeRoy Carhart, Shelley Sella, and Susan Robinson were the subject of the 2013 documentary After Tiller about the four openly-advertising late-term abortion providers in the United States after the 2009 assassination of George Tiller. Hern took his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Colorado, in 1961.
He triple-majored in Speech, Anthropology, and Chemistry. in 1965.
He has been board certified in Preventative Medicine since 1978. In 1973, Hern was asked to help found a private, non-profit abortion clinic in Boulder, Colorado.
After his position was eliminated, Hern entered into private practice, creating the Boulder Abortion Clinic in 1975. Hern holds the following academic appointments
Professor Adjunct, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder
Associate Professor Adjunct, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Colorado at Denver
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics Gynecology
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice
Hern travels regularly to Peru, where he works as a volunteer providing medical care to the Shipibo tribe.
Hern"s clinic has been the target of numerous vandalisms and threats, including gunshots fired through his office window.
He has been stalked and threatened. His family has been threatened as well. Hern expressed outrage over the May 31, 2009 killing of George Tiller, a doctor who offered similar services, in Wichita.
In the aftermath of Tiller"s murder, Hern"s clinic has continued to receive threats.
Membership
Hern was a founding member of the National Abortion Federation, and authored Abortion Practice, a comprehensive text on operating and evaluating abortion facilities.