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Confessions of An Ex abortionist - Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson
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producer of the anti-abortion film “Silent Scream”
I am personally responsible for 75,000 abortions. This legitimizes my credentials to speak to you with some authority on the issue. I was one of organizers of the National Association for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws (NARAL) in the United States in 1968. A truthful poll of opinion then would have found that most Americans were against permissive abortion. Yet within five years we had convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to issue the decision, which legalized abortion throughout America in 1973 and produced virtual abortion on demand up to birth. How did we do this? It is important to understand the tactics.
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The First Key Tactic Was to Capture the Media
We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal enlightened, sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be sounded defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and 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. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000 but the figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures took root in the consciousness of Americans convincing many that we need to crack the abortion law. Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would be done legally. 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 1500% since legalization.
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“We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its ‘socially backward ideas’ and picked on the Catholic Hierarchy as the villain in opposing abortion. This theme was played endlessly. We fed the media such lies as ‘we all know that opposition to abortion comes from hierarchy and not from most Catholics.”
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The Second Key Tactic Was To Play The Catholic Card.
We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its “socially backward ideas” and picked on the Catholic Hierarchy as the villain in opposing abortion. This theme was played endlessly. We fed the media such lies as “we all know that opposition to abortion comes from hierarchy and not from most Catholics” and “polls prove them again that most Catholics want abortion law reform”. And the media drum-fired all this into the American people, persuading them that anyone opposing permissive abortion must be under enlightened and forward looking. An inference of this tactic was that there were no non-Catholic groups opposing abortion. the fact that the other Christian as well as non-Christian religions were (and still are) monolithically opposed to abortion was constantly suppressed, along with pro-life atheist’s opinions.
The Third Key Tactic was the Denigration and Suppression of All Scientific Evidence That Life Begins At Conception
I am often asked what made me change my mind. How did I change from prominent abortionist to pro-life advocate? In 1973, I became director of obstetrics of large hospital in New York and had to set-up a pre-natal research unit, just at the start of a great new technology which we now use everyday to study the fetus in the womb. A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Foetology makes undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy., Why, you may well ask, do some American doctors, who are privy to the findings of foetology, discredit themselves by carrying out abortions? Simple arithmetic at $300 a time, 1.55 million abortions means an industry generating $500,000,000 annually, of which most goes into the pockets of the physicians. Abortion is purposeful destruction of what is undeniably human life. It is an impermissible act of deadly violence. One must concede that unplanned pregnancy is a wrenchingly difficult dilemma, but to look for its solution in a deliberate act of destruction is trash the vast resourcefullness of human ingenuity, and to surrender the public weal to the classic utilitarian answer to social problems.
As a scientist I know, not believe, that human life begins at conception.
Although I am not a formal religionist, I believe with all my heart that there is divinity of existence, which commands us to declare a final and infinitely sad and shameful crime against humanity.
(Dr. Nathanson has since converted to Catholicism, being baptized in 1996.)
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