By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This is the latest instance of where we look back at what ran in NRL News Today on this date in years past. Once upon a time (1968, to be exact), the Guttmacher Institute was housed inside Planned Parenthood. According to its official...
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Guttmacher Institute: former PPFA “special affiliate,” still carries water for Planned Parenthood
By Dave Andrusko The formal separation of the Guttmacher Institute and Planned Parenthood took place in 2007, according to GI’s webpage. Prior to that, beginning in 1968 GI was “housed within the corporate structure of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)”...
Flawed “study” calls for supporting abortionists instead of protecting women
Guttmacher Institute cites themselves to attack pro-life state laws designed to protect mothers and their unborn children WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) today said that a new "study" issued by the Guttmacher Institute (originally founded as a...
Guttmacher’s own study demonstrates state waiting periods have little impact on how long it takes women to secure abortions
By Dave Andrusko A new study by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, released today, is a study in artifice. How do you maintain the myth that “punitive” abortion laws are causing lengthy delays when your own study proves otherwise? To begin with, we are told the...
Guttmacher report finds teen abortion rate in 2011 lowest since abortion legalized
By Dave Andrusko I just came across this report from the Guttmacher Institute, released today, so this post will be short with a more in-depth follow up tomorrow. The headline is hugely encouraging, and in line with other data both from Guttmacher and from the Centers...
Guttmacher: Only those who approve of abortion should monitor it
By Rebecca Oas Ph.D. June 25, 2015 (C-Fam) -- For half a century, the Guttmacher Institute has been attempting the “Epic Split” of attempting to frame itself as both an impartial source of facts about human sexuality and reproduction and an advocacy organization...
Digging Deeper into the Data: Chemical Abortifacients Cloud the Picture of Big Abortion Drop, Conclusion
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research There were many profoundly encouraging results in Guttmacher’s latest abortion report for 2011– 1.06 million abortions, a drop of 13% since 2008 and 550,000 fewer abortions than the high...
Digging Deeper into the Data: Legislation, Education and the Latest Drop in Abortion Part 3
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. A week ago today the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion think-tank, released an analysis of abortions for 2011. The major (and very encouraging) takeaway from “Abortion...
Digging Deeper into the Data: Considering the causes for the drop in abortion, Part 2
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research It is said that failure is an orphan but that victory has a hundred fathers. Well, there are a lot of folks taking credit for the sudden and significant decline in abortion numbers...
Digging Deeper into the Data: Analyzing the decrease in the number of abortions, Part 1
By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research By now, you’ve seen the major outlines of the latest abortion report from the Guttmacher Institute – 1.06 million abortions, down 13% from 2008 to 2011, with abortion rates and ratios lower...