Guttmacher Report (decrease in abortion) Inaccurate (intentional lie in election year)

JillStanek ^ | January 24, 2008 | Jill Stanek

[NYer]

I reported earlier in the week I was skeptical of The Guttmacher Institute's most recent report indicating that by 2005 abortion had dropped 25% from its all time high of 1.6 million in 1990 to 1.2 million. Guttmacher, after all, is the research arm of the head of the abortion cabal, Planned Parenthood. Why no one in the MSM was skeptical comes as no surprise.

Now Guttmacher has been found way off its numbers in at least 1 state, Illinois. Kudos to Bill Beckman of IL Right to Life for uncovering this. According to the Chicago Tribune, January 17:

Rachel Jones, lead author of the report, noted that abortion rates can differ... from one part of the country to another. "Some states, such as Connecticut, had increases in the abortion rate," Jones said. "But Illinois had a larger-than-average decline -- the rate came down 19% from 2000 to 2005."

Beckman responded in a Trib letter to the editor, published January 18:

... I did not recall such a drop being consistent with the data published by Illinois Dept of Public Health. I checked the IDPH Web site. [See stats right; click to enlarge]....

Abortions in 2000 were 45,884 and in 2005 43,409. That change is only a 5.4% drop, far lower than the stated 19% drop. In my mind, this raises questions about what data is being used in the Guttmacher Institute report... and what level of reliability it should be given. If such inconsistencies exist for Illinois, what about the data for other states?

To further emphasize my point, IDPH data for 2006 shows 46,467 abortions in Illinois, higher than the total for 2000, so no decrease at all.

Why would Guttmacher lie? Lots of reasons....

One, to improve the industry's image as being anti-abortion and pro-prevention, like the tobacco industry and its lame anti-smoking campaigns.

Two, to create false studies showing that states with pro-life laws do not have lower abortion rates than states without. IL, for instance, has no pro-life laws whatsoever. No clinic regulations. No Women's Right to Know. Its parental notification law has been tied up in the courts for 12 years.

Another possibility would be to create false studies showing states with more abstinence education have higher pregnancy rates than states with more comprehensive sex ed.

Etc., etc., etc. We'll see what they do with this. They've already succeeded in comforting liberals and perhaps lulling certain pro-lifers into complacency.

It was so easy to prove Guttmacher wrong. What bold-faced liars. Its IL numbers are wildly off compared to legitimate stats accessible on the Internet. Where is MSM?

[NYer]

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[SlapHappyPappy]

What do you expect from a group that calls Planned Parenthood a “reproductive services” organization?

[trumandogz]

These abortion numbers do not include all the women that take the ‘abortion’ pill where the abortion provider is the pharmaceutical company with the help of Wal-Mart and Fed-Ex.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

It was so easy to prove Guttmacher wrong. What bold-faced liars. Its IL numbers are wildly off compared to legitimate stats accessible on the Internet. Where is MSM?

The MSM has no heart or soul and cares nothing about these defenseless babies.

[Antoninus]

In my opinion, any "drop" in surgical abortions is the result of increased availablity of so-called "emergency contraception"/abortion drugs like RU-486.

But hey, quibbling over whether there were 1.2 million abortions or 1.6 million abortions is like arguing over whether the Nazis killed 5.4 million Jews or 6 million.

It's a sick world we live in.

[Neidermeyer]

It was so easy to prove Guttmacher wrong. What bold-faced liars. Its IL numbers are wildly off compared to legitimate stats accessible on the Internet. Where is MSM?
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I find it hard to believe that you really expect the MSM to care about this... Guttmacher/NOW/NARAL/PP etc. etc. have been lying since 1970 and getting away with it because of the MSM wanting them to. Guttmacher knows that getting there firstest with the mostest in the propaganda wars is what counts ,,, go ahead fight the newspapers to get a correction ,, it’ll be on page G32 and for the next 10 years whenever someone does a search on these keywords the ORIGINAL story will be all they find..

That isn’t to say not to be upset by this but most of us expect it and will be shocked when we get truth out of them.

We will win, persistent truth is difficult to counter and it seems as if the young kids “get it” ...

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

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