WaPo Fact Check Rates Planned Parenthood Claim About Roe Totally False
http://dailycaller.com/2019/05/29/washington-post-fact-check-planned-parenthood-roe-false/
The Washington Post rated Planned Parenthood's talking point that "thousands of women" died every year before Roe v. Wade false in a fact check Wednesday.
The fact check concludes there is "no evidence" to support the claim, and chides Planned Parenthood for using the figure, which a statistician debunked 50 years ago.
"They should know better," Glenn Kessler writes.
Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen has been peddling the false claim for months in interviews with the press about a slew of new abortion restrictions across the country. Most recently, Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country - a near total ban on the procedure after 6 weeks. In addition, Georgia joined a number of states in banning abortion after a heartbeat can be detected in the fetus. Wen has been saying thousands of women's lives are at risk as a result.
"We face a real situation where Roe could be overturned," she said in a March interview cited by the fact check. "And we know what will happen, which is that women will die. Thousands of women died every year pre-Roe." ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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