"Terry Beatley spoke at a local right-to-life event here in South Florida. Beatley had met with Nathanson in 2009 (about a year before he died), and he gave her a charge to continue spreading the pro-life message. He told her, "teach the strategy of how I deceived America" to accept abortion." "Bernard Nathanson, M.D., performed or oversaw some 75,000 abortions. After his conversion to the pro-life side – initially as an atheist, then later as a Catholic – he wrote the book "Aborting America" and made the film "The Silent Scream." "Dr. Bernard Nathanson is not just one of many former abortionists. I think one of the main things we should know is that he's the father of the abortion industry in America. The idea of ambulatory, in-out, same-day service surgery abortions. That was a fairly new concept that he master-minded. This idea of having these so-called 'clinics' set up all across the United States." "She continues with other points of Nathanson's strategy: "They used the complicit media because Nathanson was quick to realize that most of the reporters were young and female, and he would tell them almost anything … and they would believe anything he'd tell them. And what did he tell them? He'd tell them fabricated facts, i.e., lies. He would say that a million women a year were having back-alley abortions. And 5,000-10,000 women a year were dying due to complications. Those were bald-faced lies." "How else did Nathanson, by his own account, deceive America into accepting baby-killing? Dr. Nathanson would say that 60 percent of Americans wanted abortion on demand legalized. … The real percentage was one-tenth of one percent." "Other parts of the strategy included: Repeating the lies again and again so they become accepted as true. Working to decriminalize abortion since many people assume something is acceptable if it is legal." "Many of these lies are still with us."
