SCARE TACTICS: Sen. Feinstein's 'Back Alley Abortion' Stats Are Blatant Lies

Brittany M. Hughes | September 6, 2018
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California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is so abysmally wrong on her abortion facts, even the founder of one of the nation's biggest abortion groups thinks she's wrong.

Speaking at a Senate confirmation hearing for Trump SCOTUS pick Brett Kavanaugh Wendesday, Feinstein made the outrageous claim that somewhere in the neighborhood of “200,000 to 1 million women” had died from illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade.

It’s a figure so inflated that even pro-abortion advocates disagree. LifeSite News points out that while "pro-choice" proponents often use the “back-alley abortion” tactic to scare the public into condoning infanticide, even Bernard Nathanson, the cofounder of abortion advocacy group NARAL who later became a pro-life advocate, has admitted that relatively few women died from illegal abortion procedures prior to 1973. They explain:

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist and co-founder of NARAL, also later admitted that their “statistics” about back alley abortions were false.

Nathanson said NARAL often claimed between 5,000 and 10,000 women died every year from dangerous, back alley abortions and argued that legalizing abortions would protect women in America.

He wrote: “I confess that I knew that the figures were totally false and I suppose that others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted … The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible.”

The report also cited a 1972 Center for Disease Control report that placed the death rate from illegal abortions at a grand total of 39 in 1972, just one year before Roe v. Wade.

While Feinstein may toss out completely bunk statistics to advocate for state-sanctioned genocide, it’s unlikely she’ll mention women who’ve died from legal abortions in the last 40-plus years, including this woman who bled out and died following a botched late-term procedure in Georgia in 2009.

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