{"id":23706,"date":"2012-11-22T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=23706"},"modified":"2012-11-22T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T14:30:14","slug":"new-cdc-data-shows-bungled-abortion-reporting-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-cdc-data-shows-bungled-abortion-reporting-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"New CDC data shows bungled abortion reporting in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Yesterday the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their annual report on abortions in 2009 and found a 5% decrease from the previous year. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h0wRDfUypVcvP1GFOVdGByAGk1Zg?docId=f6348605f17a4334993e719168e46eb7\" target=\"_blank\">Associated\u00a0Press described<\/a> this drop as the &#8220;biggest one-year decrease in at least a decade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is all well and good until we look back at reporting about abortion in 2009. Some outlets like <em>The New York Times<\/em> and Reuters ran with an unsupported theory that a bad economy must equal a higher abortion rate and cherry-picked facts and quotes from abortion providers as the evidence. Now we know the truth. Will the media take note of their reporting failure from 2009?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at some major media that got things wrong;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Colorado Spring Gazette<\/em>\/Associated\u00a0Press: <a href=\" Read more: http:\/\/www.gazette.com\/articles\/counseling-50553-halfway-through.html#ixzz2CwM6rR2D\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. recession enters the bedroom: Abortions, vasectomies increasing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reuters:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2009\/04\/22\/us-usa-economy-births-idUSTRE53L0S520090422\" target=\"_blank\">Recession linked to more abortions, vasectomies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>New York Times<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/18\/more-abortions-in-a-recession\/\" target=\"_blank\">More abortions in a recession<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Side observation: Evidence that Planned Parenthood share of abortions is rising<\/h3>\n<p>If Planned Parenthood of Illinois is reporting all-time high abortion numbers at the same time that the country is\u00a0experiencing\u00a0its\u00a0&#8220;biggest one-year decrease in at least a decade,&#8221; it stands to reason that Planned Parenthood&#8217;s share of the abortion industry is rising.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-03-24-family-planning_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press (3\/24\/2009)<\/a>: &#8220;Planned Parenthood of Illinois clinics performed an all-time high number of abortions in January&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/health\/article988131.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em>\/AP (3\/20\/2009)<\/a>: Planned Parenthood clinics in St. Petersburg and Sarasota observed a 14 percent increase in abortions the first two months of this year compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood&#8217;s increasing share of the abortion market is long-term trend that has seen them go from performing 1 in 10 U.S. abortions in 1995 (139,899 of\u00a01,359,400) to slightly more than 27% of abortions today (332,278 of 1,212,400).<\/p>\n<h3>Theories, speculation, and experts<\/h3>\n<p>Also of note is the new theory going around. The big Associated\u00a0Press\u00a0article on the new CDC report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h0wRDfUypVcvP1GFOVdGByAGk1Zg?docId=f6348605f17a4334993e719168e46eb7\" target=\"_blank\">led with the speculation<\/a> that &#8220;perhaps &#8230; women are more careful to use birth control when times are tough,&#8221; and that is why abortion dropped during a recession. Talk about whiplash from the &#8220;experts&#8221; that just a few years ago speculated\u00a0that a poor economy would lead to more abortions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the media scrambles to cover it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":12858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New CDC data shows bungled abortion reporting in 2009 - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-cdc-data-shows-bungled-abortion-reporting-in-2009\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New CDC data shows bungled abortion reporting in 2009 - 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