We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded [in breaking down the laws limiting abortion] because the time was right and the news media cooperated. 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. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.
Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, from an address to the Winnipeg League for Life, April 25, 1981. cited by John Powell, S.J., Abortion: the Silent Holocaust, p.75
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