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Obama Administration to Stop Reporting Abortion Statistics?

Beginning in 1969 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected data on legal abortions carried out in the United States through its Abortion Surveillance System. The report based on this data ordinarily appeared as an article in CDC’s professional journal, The Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report (MMWR) the week after Thanksgiving. The report lagged the data by three years, i.e., the 2006 data were printed in 2009.

While not comprehensive, the CDC report provided the best single estimate of abortions in the US, as well as providing detailed breakdowns: the age of the baby at the time of abortion, age of the mother, number of abortions the mother had previous to the current one, etc. People on both sides of the abortion debate have cited these statistics to make their points.

Last year, contrary to the long-established practice, November came and went with no report posted on the CDC’s website. Over the following weeks, multiple visits to the site proved fruitless. The possibility the report was not merely delayed, but had in fact been axed from higher up, had to be considered.

Last week, RedState began investigating by calling those in DC who might have some answers. After several attempts, we finally received confirmation from Rhonda Smith at the CDC’s press office in Atlanta that the report has been buried indefinitely; the CDC “will not have stats available at any time in the near future” and there “are no plans for them to come out any time soon.”

More. This is outrageous, and raises the question of why the Obama Administration wouldn’t want the report published.

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DarwinCatholic
Saturday, February 5, AD 2011 12:09pm

This is indeed pretty appalling.

And here some people have promised they were going to prove to me that Obama was better at reducing abortions than Bush. So much for that, I guess…

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Saturday, February 5, AD 2011 1:08pm

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Donald R. McClarey
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Saturday, February 5, AD 2011 2:11pm

Now the CDC and the Obama administration are attempting to cover their posteriors by stating that the report has merely been “delayed” and has been in editing since November. Mediamatters claim that they obtained, read “obtained” as spoonfed to them by the Obama administration, a CDC e-mail from November discussing a publication date. The whole thing stinks to high heaven and if Redstate had not raised a furor the publication date would likely have been the 28th of Never.

T. I.
T. I.
Saturday, February 5, AD 2011 3:19pm

Hmm…. I wonder why the report is not being published. Could it be due to Obama’s record of being one of a few senators to vote against outlawing partial birth abortions? Consistently pro-choice Obama’s motives seem quite clear to me.

teomatteo
teomatteo
Saturday, February 5, AD 2011 5:27pm

Maybe this is what our president meant when he said he wanted abortions RARE….. he wanted the numbers to be unfindable

TeaPot562
TeaPot562
Saturday, February 5, AD 2011 5:37pm

Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, described in “1984” a memory hole into which the bureacrat was supposed to put items to be remembered. The memory hole fed into an incinerator.
Welcome to their world.
TeaPot562

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Sunday, February 6, AD 2011 5:34am

[…] people? Well, here’s your answer – don’t cut loose from the horrific practice; just stop reporting the abortion statistics! Always better to keep the cockroaches hidden, ya […]

Phillip
Phillip
Sunday, February 6, AD 2011 8:41am

You clearly don’t understand. Obama is the most pro-life president ever. He has passed pro-life health care reform and pro-life education subsidies. He has passed pro-life bank reform and pro-life infrastructure repairs.

The only reason that there is no report is that pro-life Obama has clearly eliminated abortion through all this pro-life investment.

carolinmd
carolinmd
Sunday, February 6, AD 2011 1:09pm

This is yet another example of the transparency we were promised by Mr. Obama. For those who still expect anything other than lies from this guy, you will continue to be amazed at the audacity he displays in view of the truth. The only truth is what Obama wants the people to see, and as he wants them to see it.

Jasper
Jasper
Monday, February 7, AD 2011 4:06am

were talking about an administration here that doesn’t believe BORN babies that survive abortion should be cared for…the first lady even believes that PBA is a legitimate medical procedure…

Rome is burning.

http://www.jillstanek.com/2008/02/links-to-barack-obamas-votes-on-ils-born-alive-infant-protection-act/

http://www.jillstanek.com/2009/09/will-michelle-promote-partial-birth-abortion-in-healthcare-pitches/

Jasper
Jasper
Monday, February 7, AD 2011 4:07am

I think one of my comments is stuck in purgatory….

Donald R. McClarey
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Monday, February 7, AD 2011 5:27am

I retrieved your comment from spam purgatory Jasper! Links in a comment often causes our spam protection program to toss it into the spam file.

EricW
EricW
Monday, February 7, AD 2011 9:12am

Ah, this would explain why my comment containing a link debunking this was discarded. Not that it would convince anyone anyway.

Have a wonderful week.

Joe
Joe
Monday, February 7, AD 2011 10:32am

Hello!?!? Where were you guys 10 years ago? After the drastic declines under Clinton the abortion rates stagnated under Bush’s social policies and started to rise well before he left office.

Did no one pay attention to the fact that the 2004 Pro-Life ads were using Clinton ear data? Why? because Mr Pro-Life Bush’s policies were killing the same or more babies. In the article above it states that 2006 didn’t come out until 2009… which was definitely planned so that the Republican’s wouldn’t have to answer the questions as to why the rates were doing up the younger groups and why they could say they were Pro-Life all they want but if their policies of greed kill more innocent lives… well they just won’t report that.

While I’m 100% Pro-Life it definitely seems worse to me to lie to people that you are trying to do something when you really just want votes as opposed to being delusional that life doesn’t being at Conception.

Until the greater Pro-Life movement realizes that we don’t really have any friends in Washington and start demanding both Social policies that are in line with the Church to go along with our Life Issues… nothing is going to change.

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Monday, February 7, AD 2011 1:29pm

[…] Obama Admin to Stop Keeping Abortion Stats – Looks like your score sheet is going to be useless before long.  The CDC is slowing, if not stopping, their practice of tracking abortions in the U.S. […]

DarwinCatholic
Tuesday, February 8, AD 2011 8:41pm

Hello!?!? Where were you guys 10 years ago? After the drastic declines under Clinton the abortion rates stagnated under Bush’s social policies and started to rise well before he left office.

Ummm. Huh? The abortion rate and ratio continued to decline under Bush, and indeed to my knowledge were lower every single year under Bush than they ever were under Clinton.

http://darwincatholic.blogspot.com/2008/03/poverty-and-abortion-new-analysis.html

You may be 100% pro-life, but you need to work on being 100% clear on the facts.

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