Bernard Nathanson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded 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.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Media #Law #Abortion
Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Abortion #Window #Womb
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Abortion #Deceit #Lines
There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Pregnancy #Abortion #Doubt
We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Baby #Children #Moving
At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan], we had done 60,000 abortions. [During my life] I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Hands #Years #Two
I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Sexy #Laughing #Cynical
A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Believe #Philosophical #Abortion
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then 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 1,500 percent since legalization.
-- Bernard Nathanson

#Mean #Media #Numbers

The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.
I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.
In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.
Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.

Bernard Nathanson famous quotes

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