PODCAST: Dianne Feinstein's Big Fat Abortion Lie

PODCAST: Dianne Feinstein’s Big Fat Abortion Lie

09.05.18

In Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on earlier today, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) made a mind-blowing—make that head-exploding—statement. Citing the liberal Guttmacher Institute, Feinstein said, “In the 1950s and ’60s, the two decades before Roe, death from illegal abortions in this country ran between 200,000 to 1.2 million” (emphasis added).

That is not what the Guttmacher Institute says. The Guttmacher Institute says that “Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year.” Please note, this statement does not mention death.

Here’s what Feinstein omitted, also from the Guttmacher Institute…