[Polonius]

... and when 10,000 American women a year died from illegal abortions

This statistic seems ridiculous on its face. Does anyone know its origin?

[T'wit]

> This statistic seems ridiculous on its face. Does anyone know its origin?

Yes. The former abortionist, Bernard Nathanson, said they made it up, to boost the fledgling NARAL group (I think). This showed up in another thread today, though I'd heard it before. That thread also came up with the highest number of women's deaths from abortion at about 1,900 -- but that was before antibiotics. (Sorry to do this from memory. Best find that other thread and get the exact figures...)

[T'wit]

Here we go. This is from that other thread. I'll give you the link... Abortionist lies

"...The truth is that by 1966, the year before the first state liberalized abortion, fatalities dropped to 120 per year due to the overall improvement in medical care and the introduction of antibiotics. You have to go back to the pre-antibiotic days, the 1940's, and even then the highest annual death toll was 1,679. Former abortionist and NARAL founder Dr. Bernard Nathanson admits the 10,000 number was intentionally inflated just to get abortion legalized!"

So, 1679, not 1,900. (Knew I had that wrong but I couldn't remember the right figure.)

[FreepinforTerri]

That figure was created by former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson when he founded NARAL, the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws. Since his conversion to the pro-life movement, he admitted that this statistics was totally invented by those attempted to pass ROE.