In our civil war over abortion, those who champion life know that the abortion supporters lie. Bernard Nathanson, the abortion doctor who co-founded of NARAL, later in his life repented and told the truth about NARAL abortion statistics. He said that the NARAL claim that 60% of Americans favored permissive abortion was simply invented, that NARAL statistics claiming that one million illegal abortions were performed each year in America was false, and that the real number 100,000.