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We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent.

Bernard Nathanson

I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . .
BERNARD NATHANSON

Cynical Laughing Look Opinion Public Sexy
We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child’s mouth wide open in a silent scream.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Baby Child Children Mouth Moving Scream
I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Another Hand Myself Resident
Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy….As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Concept Pro Protection Require Scientist
A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Believe Philosophical
We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Percent Poll Sensationalized
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then be done legally.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Mean Media Numbers
We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Law Media Quoted Statement Written
Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Window Womb
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Life Pro Statistics
There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Doubt Human Longer Pregnancy
We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Cynical Opinion Public Today
In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.
BERNARD NATHANSON

Abortion Control Legalization Method Number Since

We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent.

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We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent.

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