By WND. The repeated claim by the president of Planned Parenthood that “thousands” of women died before the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling because they lacked access to safe abortion is a “big lie” that was spread by activists a half century ago, according to a co-founder of the leading pro-abortion group NARAL.

In a 1990 interview with WND Vice President David Kupelian, Bernard Nathanson, M.D., who once was head of the nation’s largest abortion clinic, observed that “repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public.”

He said that he and other abortion activists prior to the Roe decision “constantly fed to the media” the figure of 10,000 women dying annually from illegal abortions. The actual figure, he said, was about 200 to 250 annually. . .

Last week, nevertheless, in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen said: “We’re not going to go back in time to a time before Roe when thousands of women died every year because they didn’t have access to essential health care.”

In his Washington Post fact-check column, Glenn Kessler rated Wen’s claim with “Four Pinocchios,” writing that “there is no evidence that in the years immediately preceding the Supreme Court’s decision, thousands of women died every year in the United States from illegal abortions.” (Read more from “Planned Parenthood Spreads Their Biggest Lie of All” HERE)

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Washington Post Gives ‘4 Pinocchios’ to Planned Parenthood President for False Abortion Claim

By Fox News. The president of Planned Parenthood has repeatedly spread a false claim about “thousands” of women who died due to a lack of safe abortion access before the Roe v. Wade decision, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

“We’re not going to go back in time to a time before Roe when thousands of women died every year because they didn’t have access to essential health care,” said Dr. Leana Wen on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” last week. . .

Before Roe v. Wade, thousands of women died every year — and because of extreme attacks on safe, legal abortion care, this could happen again right here in America. #WeWontGoBack https://t.co/9orqLaif0J

— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) April 24, 2019

In a fact-check piece, Glenn Kessler rated the claim with “Four Pinocchios,” writing that Wen’s statements were “derived from data that is decades old.”

“Even given the fuzzy nature of the data and estimates, there is no evidence that in the years immediately preceding the Supreme Court’s decision, thousands of women died every year in the United States from illegal abortions,” Kessler wrote, adding that abortion advocates “hurt their cause” with such unproven claims.

He added that the information was “debunked in 1969 — 50 years ago — by a statistician celebrated by Planned Parenthood,” and that the claim relies on statistics from before antibiotics were being used, when fatal complications were far more likely. (Read more from “Washington Post Gives ‘4 Pinocchios’ to Planned Parenthood President for False Abortion Claim” HERE)

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By The Blaze. The ACLU celebrated a key victory against the Trump administration policy changing the Title X family planning program to stop federal funding to clinics that refer women for abortions. . .

BREAKING: We just won a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s attacks on the Title X family planning program.

This is a victory for all Americans — especially for patients who turn to Title X. We will not stop fighting for everyone’s right to get the care they need.

— ACLU (@ACLU) April 25, 2019

Judge Bastian in the Eastern District of Washington granted the nationwide preliminary injunction to halt the order from President Donald Trump.

The policy was to go into effect on May 3. (Read more from “Judge Issues Crucial Decision in Lawsuit Against President Trump’s Pro-Life Order” HERE)

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Mulvaney: Trump Personally Wrote Pro-Life Comments in State of the Union Speech

By Washington Free Beacon. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney praised President Donald Trump’s personal commitment to the protection of religious liberty while speaking at the 15th annual National Catholic Prayer breakfast on Tuesday.

Mulvaney told the audience of Catholic leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., that in addition to emphasizing religious liberty during his public speeches, during private meetings at the White House Trump also speaks with world leaders about the importance of protecting the rights of Christians.

“He will look at them and say, ‘You’re not doing enough to take care of the Christians in your country,’ or ‘Thank you for helping the Christians in your country,'” Mulvaney said.

Mulvaney also said that Trump’s comments on abortion in 2019 State of the Union speech, which focused in large part on the then-recent scandal surrounding Virginia governor Ralph Northam’s (D.) apparent endorsement of infanticide, were added in by Trump himself shortly before the speech.

“The president was looking at it the very last time before he went out to give the speech, and he made some notes—he didn’t tell us what he was doing when he made the notes,” Mulvaney said. “If you remember the speech, you heard what the president was writing. The president was writing more about how important it was to protect life and how terrible it was to see what Virginia was doing.” (Read more from “Mulvaney: Trump Personally Wrote Pro-Life Comments in State of the Union Speech” HERE)

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A former patient of Planned Parenthood recalled her experience with the organization and revealed the disturbing method one doctor allegedly said he used for terminating “stubborn” pregnancies. The patient alleged that the reported method involved breaking a newborn baby’s neck if it survives the abortion. . .

The woman, who was 22 years old at the time, ended up choosing life after she discovered the barbaric methods abortionists at the clinic would use to end the life in her womb. . .

The woman said that the abortionist used a long needle to inject digoxin to stop the child’s heart beating — but the baby ended up surviving. The woman said she asked the attending doctors, “If you guys were to take him out right now while he’s still, his heart rate is still, you know, going, what would you guys do?” . . .

“[S]he told me that we don’t tell women this, and a lot of women don’t even ask this question, but if we was to proceed with the abortion and the baby was to come out still alive and active, most likely we would break the baby’s neck,” the woman recalled the abortionist saying. . .

“The more I was telling them no, it was more like they were trying to sell me something, like a seller that pushes you and pushes you until you buy their item or their product. That’s how it felt, as if they were trying to sell me this abortion,” she explained. (Read more from “Planned Parenthood Doctor’s Terrifying Response to Botched-Abortion Scenario” HERE)

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