We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.
BERNARD NATHANSONWe fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
More Bernard Nathanson Quotes
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There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.
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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.
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I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . .
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
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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.
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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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