Feminist leader admits ‘we inflated the figures’ to get abortion legalized in Mexico (CNA)

“At that time, I remember, we women said, ‘100,000 women die from clandestine abortions,’” said Marta Lamas, one of the founders of the Group for Information on Elective Reproduction. “It turns out that 100,000 people died in the whole country, men and women from all diseases. We inflated the figures.”