Bernard Nathanson Quotes

United States, Doctor
July 31, 1926 – February, 21, 2011.

Bernard N. Nathanson was an American medical doctor and co-founder in 1969 of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws — NARAL — later renamed National Abortion Rights Action League. He was also the former director of New York City's Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health, but later became a pro-life activist. He was the narrator for the controversial 1984 anti-abortion film The Silent Scream.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.

Bernard Nathanson
- Public
- Fed
- Dishonesty
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place it legally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.

Bernard Nathanson

A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.

Bernard Nathanson
At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan], we had done 60,000 abortions. [During my life] I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion.

Bernard Nathanson
- Director
- Abortion
- Center
We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.

Bernard Nathanson
- Child
- Aggression
- Uterus
I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.

Bernard Nathanson
- Abortion
- Cynical
- Slogans
Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.

Bernard Nathanson
- Windows
- Abortions
- Wombs
There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.

Bernard Nathanson
- Life
- Human
- Pregnancy