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And thus we know, in that grandest of Clinton traditions, that she was lying:

Last month Secretary of State Hilary Clinton told Congress that half of the women she had seen in Brazilian hospitals “were fighting for their lives against botched abortions.” After her comments she was asked to produce evidence as to when she had visited the hospitals or statistics to back her claim, but neither she nor her staffers have been able to produce any evidence.

Clinton, who last year falsely claimed that she had been involved in a sniper attack as First Lady when she visited Bosnia, is now making another claim: half the women in Brazilian hospitals are “fighting for their lives against botched abortions.”

After video tapes showed that Clinton was not actually under sniper fire when she was in Bosnia, she said she had a “different memory of the event.” Later she said, “So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I’m human, which, you know, for some people, is a revelation.”

The National Catholic Register contacted Department of State spokeswoman Laura Tischler to see if there was any record of Clinton’s trip to Brazilian hospitals. Tischler said, “I am unable to confirm where or when the trip she referred to in her testimony was — where specifically in Brazil she was visiting or when the trip occurred.”

Representative Chris Smith, who asked the question that prompted Clinton’s response, remarked, “Pro-abortion activists have a long history of making these type of unsubstantiated claims. That’s how they drive policy — with gross exaggeration of numbers, hyperbole and junk science,” according to the NCR.

Not just pro-abortion people – the left has this penchant for just making up an alarming factoid to buttress whatever argument they happen to be making at the moment. People with retentive memories might recall all the post-Columbine massacre assertions that this or that number of kids were killed by guns every day in America…trouble was, all the figures bruited about exceeded the number of juveniles killed by guns per year. Its always good to pause and think about it each time a liberal makes an assertion.

Hillary’s absurd assertion about the prevalence of post-botched-abortion cases in Brazilian hospitals is one of the easier ones. I mean, honestly, how many people in Brazil are seeking an abortion at any given moment? Not enough, I’ll warrant, to fill up hospital wards, even supposing that all of them were of the botched variety. The pro-abortion loves to put out this sort of nonsense – this way they can paint the pro-life side as heartless and cruel…it is we, on our side, who want women to die…because we hate them, or something. An old – but still used – pro-abortion talking point is the absurdly inflated numbers on pre-Roe deaths from “back alley” abortions…and then, presto, Roe was decided and abortion deaths became such a small number as to never, ever need to be looked in to or studied in any way, shape or form. Apparently scores of doctors stepped forth post-Roe because they all really wanted to perform abortions all along.

Yeah, right – the people who performed the legal abortions post-Roe were the same people performing the “back alley” abortion pre-Roe. All they did was hang out a shingle – and if deaths were rare post-Roe, then they were almost certainly rare pre-Roe because, you know, “back alley” abortions weren’t done in back alleys…they were done on the sly at medical facilities were doctors would bend or break the rules about abortion. Its hard to strip away the thick and varied layers of lies the left has put out about abortion, as well as every other issue advocated by the left. It takes a while to demonstrate just one lie for what it is – and thus liberals glibly lie all the time because they know that not all the lies will be uncovered (I’m talking here, of course, about liberal leaders – the servile rank and file of liberalism doesn’t question anything and certainly doesn’t think anything through…they think they’re saying the truth because liberal leaders told them it was).

The truth, though, will out – we’re going to win this fight because we’re fighting lies designed to facilitate evil. Such things can go on for a while, but not forever…as the USSR and other bits of wickedness learned.