I wondered if this wasn't all just trumped up. Thanks.
It's like the old coathanger propaganda. It's unlikely that anyone ever used a coathanger for an abortion, or if they did, it was maybe a couple of drunken nutjobs. But if you listen to the propaganda you would think that was the only choice before Roe v. Wade, and that backyard coathanger abortions was a regular practice.
Say it often enough and it becomes "true."