Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb 14, 2006 / 22:00 pm
In an article published by the AICA news agency, Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata, Argentina, has questioned statistics being used by the country’s Minister of Health, Gines Gonzalez Garcia, who claims that more than 800,000 back-alley abortions are taking place each year in Argentina.
In his article entitled, “Truths, Half-truths and Lies,” Archbishop Aguer wonders, “How is it possible to keep track of two thousand clandestine procedures per day? If it were based on estimates, it would be good to know how they were calculated. Perhaps by how many of these illegal actions are reported?”
The archbishop recalled the famous case of Dr. Bernard Nathanson, “who was director of the largest ‘sexual health’ clinic in the world, where he personally carried out some 5000 abortions. Later, when participating in scientific studies on the fetus inside the womb, he recognized that the fruit of conception is a human being from the very first moment and he became a special witness against the abortion movement.”
Nathanson revealed that in 1968, abortion supporters maintained that “in the United States a million back-alley abortions were taking place, when we knew that in reality they only numbered about 10,000. But this number was of no use to them and therefore they inflated it in order to gain attention. We also constantly repeated that deaths by back-alley abortions numbered some 10,000, when we knew they were only 200--that’s all--but this number was too small for the propaganda. This tactic of deceit and lies, if it is repeated enough, ends up being accepted as truth.”