In a recently uncovered video, Mexican pro-abortion leader Marta Lamas told a university panel how they vastly “inflated the figures” of maternal abortion deaths, the Spanish Catholic news outlet ACI Prensa reports.
Lamas teaches at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and helped to found the pro-abortion organization Group for Information on Elective Reproduction (GIRE). Her group has been influential in lobbying Mexico City and eight other Mexican states to legalize the killing of unborn babies in abortions.
In the video, uncovered by the pro-life organization Steps for Life, Lamas admitted that abortion activists misinformed the public about the number of women dying from illegal abortions, according to the report.
“At that time, I remember, we women said ‘100,000 women die from clandestine abortions.’ It turns out that 100,000 people died in the whole country, men and women from all diseases. We inflated the figures,” she said in the video.
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