Pandora, anti abortion activists are zealous in their cause. It comes with being an activist. That zeal often leads them to believe that any bad thing said about abortion must be true, since abortion is bad. Their primary concern is saving babies/stopping women from having abortion. One point of persuasion has to do with the health of women themselves. So, abortion activists will tell women that abortion causes breast cancer, that it entails high risk of  mental and emotional problems, and that it poses a serious risk to their future fertility.  To make these assertions, (and whatever others they may think to present) additional weight, activists often present themselves as dis-interested medical experts, whose primary concern is the health of  the woman, but they never discuss the more serious hazards involved in pregnancy and delivery.

That's what I was talking about. 

And I don't think the French are setting records for nonsense, so much as trying to set limits.