PUBLIC MARKS with tags legal & women

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League, admits his group lied about the number of women who died from legal abortions when testifying before the Supreme Court in 1972. "We spoke of 5,000 - 10,000 deaths a year ... I confess that I knew the figures were totally false ... it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?"

Planned Parenthood changes the advice it offers women taking RU-486, while <strike>religious</strike> groups opposed to legal abortions re-ignite the debate over whether the “medical abortion” regimen should be administered at all.