MANILLA, February 18, 2002 (LSN.ca) – One of the founders and strategists of the pro-abortion movement in the United States, Dr. Bernard Nathanson has questioned the claimed numbers of illegal abortions in the Philippines. Nathanson, a pro-life convert, explains that the inflation of numbers of illegal abortions is a tactic used by abortion promoters to legalize the procedure.
He notes that as part of the pro-abortion movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he and his colleagues claimed that there had been one million legal abortions in the US annually and that 10,000 women died due to abortion every year. However, in truth, he said, there were only about 200,000 legal abortions and only 200 to 300 women died due to abortion a year.
See the coverage in the Philippine Star: https://www.philstar.com/philstar/show_content.asp?article=68012