What’s Driving The Downturn In Number Of Abortions?
By Charmaine Yoest, July 25, 2015
Daily Signal
Daily Signal
The data on the abortion rate in the United States for 2014 has not been updated since 2011. And that is just the beginning of the problems with American abortion data. The paucity and poor quality of data on abortion in our country are worthy of note in and of themselves. While the better-known aphorism is “what you subsidize, you get more of,” there seems to be a lesser-known corollary guiding abortion politics: “What you don’t measure doesn’t matter.”
Abortion data is collected by the Centers for Disease Control on a purely voluntary reporting basis. And even that is done incompletely. For example, California, Maryland, and New Hampshire do not report their abortion statistics to the CDC. The Guttmacher Institute—the research arm of the abortion lobby—conducts an annual survey of abortion providers that provides an alternate, but still non-comprehensive, source of accounting.
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