LeRoy Carhart cause of death

LeRoy Carhart’s family, who announced the news via social media, said he died on Friday, April 28, 2023, but did not give a cause of death.

“Dr. Carhart will be deeply missed by family, friends, colleagues, and patients,” his daughter Janine Weatherby said in a Facebook post.

“Lee had a very simple belief that patients know what is best for their life plan and was there to support them.”

LeRoy Carhart, a prominent and controversial doctor well known for providing late-term abortions, has died at the age of 81.

Carhart, who had provided abortions for the past 50 years, became a lightning rod for anti-abortion activists who opposed his practices.

As the medical director of Clinics for Abortion and Reproductive Excellence (CARE), Carhart and his wife Mary ran two clinics in Nebraska and Maryland that specialize in providing second- and third-trimester abortion care.

Carhart spent 21 years in the U.S. Air Force, where he worked as a surgeon before retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

In 1985, Dr. Carhart opened a walk-in emergency clinic in Omaha, Neb.