Abortion Survivors At Columbine

This paper is a comprehensive analysis of the two adolescent perpetrators of
the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. Using psychoanalytic, family systems, and prenatal psychology
resources, the author explores various theories advanced to explain their behavior and offers the new
observation that the boys match the clinical profile of abortion survivors. In concluding, he predicts the
increasing appearance of more and ever younger killers in a culture which features the multigenerational
transmission of the threat of being aborted and suggests that this insight may help us understand other
examples of antisocial behavior and pathological syndromes