{"id":238579,"date":"2021-01-22T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=238579"},"modified":"2021-12-15T19:53:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:53:16","slug":"scam-big-lies-false-promises-roe-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/scam-big-lies-false-promises-roe-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAM: The big lies and false promises of Roe v. Wade have led to 62 million dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been 48 years since the Supreme Court legalized abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy in the United States with Roe v. Wade<\/em> and Doe v. Bolton<\/em>. Since that time, approximately 62 million preborn children have been legally killed in the name of ‘choice’. In the years leading up to those shocking decisions on January 22, 1973, Americans were scammed \u2014\u00a0and the scam is ongoing. Outright lies were fed to Americans until they were accepted as truth… and the promises of all the good abortion would bring have never been fulfilled.<\/p>\n

LIE #1: One million illegal abortions had occurred in America.<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Truth: The number of illegal abortions was a fraction<\/em> of this.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the main proponents of legalized abortion and a founder of NARAL (later renamed NARAL Pro-Choice America), eventually became pro-life and admitted<\/a> that the actual number of illegal abortions in the United States was “approaching<\/em> 100,000.” (emphasis added) Not one million. But the fear tactic \u2014 that a million women had undergone dangerous illegal abortions \u2014 worked. The lie sold the idea of legalizing abortion in order to protect women from something based on an entirely false narrative.<\/p>\n

LIE #2: 10,000 women died from illegal abortion annually.<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Truth: The real number was about 300.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While any death from abortion is tragic, the number of women who had died from illegal abortions prior to Roe v. Wade<\/em> was hugely inflated. Not only was the true number of deaths from illegal abortion only about 300<\/a> annually, but that number had dropped<\/a> consistently between 1930 and 1970 due to advancements in antibiotics. In 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the CDC reported just 39 maternal deaths<\/a> from illegal abortions. The lives of those 39 women and their preborn babies<\/em> mattered but did not justify the legalization of abortion or the 62 million deaths that have followed.<\/p>\n

LIE #3: The majority of Americans wanted abortion legalized.<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Truth: The polling was completely fabricated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another admission of Nathanson’s was that abortion proponents knew they needed the media on their side.\u00a0\u201cWe persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one\u2026. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls,” he explained<\/a>. “We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60% of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority.”<\/p>\n

Convincing Americans that legalizing abortion was necessary to protect women led to lies that many still believe today. But there were also false promises that never came to light.<\/p>\n