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Abortions are on the decline
By Valerie Jane | April 15, 2008
Fact: No one really knows for sure what the true statistics are for Abortion in the United States.
Why? According to the CDC:
For each year since 1969, CDC has compiled abortion data by state or area of occurrence. During 1973–1997, data were received from or estimated for 52 reporting areas in the United States: 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. In 1998 and 1999, CDC compiled abortion data from 48 reporting areas. Alaska, California, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma did not report, and data for these states were not estimated. During 2000–2002, Oklahoma again reported
these data, increasing the number of reporting areas to 49; for 2003 and 2004, Alaska again reported and West Virginia did not, maintaining the number of reporting areas at 49.
How can we say that we know abortion is declining if we do not get all the statistics? Then there is this statement from the same CDC report:
This report summarizes and describes data voluntarily reported to CDC regarding legal induced abortions obtained in the United States in 2004.
What does voluntarily mean in this case? Here is an example from the same CDC report:
(For New Jersey) Numbers do not include private physicians’ procedures.
Some may wonder about the Guttmacher Institute - an private sexual research organization - and how they get their statistics.
All known abortion providers in the United States were contacted for information about abortion services in 2004 and 2005.
All statistics are voluntary. The Guttmacher institute doesn’t say if any providers did not give them information.
How can anyone know what the true information is? They can’t. It’s all up to medical doctors who call it a successful day if 1/2 of all their patients die to tell us how many abortions they are doing.
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