By Dave Andrusko Yesterday Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education and Research, offered an in-depth overview of the abortion numbers provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). If you missed it, take time to read his analysis carefully and then...
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CDC Report Shows Abortions Drop 4.2% in 2012
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education and Research Figures released last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) show that the number of abortions are continuing to drop--by 4.2% in 2012. That means more than 31,000 fewer abortions in...
CDC Abortion Surveillance Figures show decline of 4.2% in 2012
By Dave Andrusko For some strange reason, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released its latest abortion numbers the day before Thanksgiving. But a wonderful holiday gift it was--the lowest number of abortions CDC has recorded since 1973! The number of...
CDC report confirms there has been a big drop in the number of abortions
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research The government’s latest report confirms the good news reported by Guttmacher earlier this year. That not only the number of abortions in the U.S. have dropped to lows not seen since the...
What the new CDC abortion numbers tell us about abortion’s impact on minorities
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research The abortion of a child of any ethnicity or color is a tragedy that impacts a whole nation. But one thing the latest numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tell us is that...
CDC Report Shows Decline in Abortions for 2010; abortion rates and ratios both down
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Although they’re missing data from too many states to give an accurate national total, the latest surveillance report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) does tell us something...
Behind the CDC numbers
By Dave Andrusko As we come to the end of the third week post-election, I’d like to reflect further on the data produced by the Centers for Disease Control. You know the figure that has (rightfully) attracted the most attention: from the 2008 to 2009 there was a 5%...
CDC Shows Large Drop in Abortions for 2009, Part One
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research Abortion numbers, rates, and ratios for 2009 have been released by the government’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), indicating significantly fewer abortions than found in the previous...
CDC Abortion Surveillance Report for 2008 Contains Valuable Demographic Data
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research Because the nation’s most populous state, California, and others have been missing from its data set since 1998, no one really looks to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for the...
CDC Abortion Report Offers Valuable Demographic Data
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., National Right to Life Director of Education & Research When the 2007 Abortion Surveillance report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) came out February 25, 2011, it was almost lost in the shuffle owing to the fact that the...