Mixed messaging much? Planned Parenthood claims 20 million women want the same 20-wk abortions Guttmacher calls “very rare”
Think 20-week abortion bans aren't a serious attack on women's health, nationwide? Think again. pic.twitter.com/EunPs2suWD
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) February 9, 2015
The abortion lobby isn’t quite sure how to smear those 20-week abortion bans that are sweeping the country.
So on one hand you’ll see Planned Parenthood claim 20 million women are being negatively impacted by bans on abortions past 20 weeks.
And on the other you’ll see Guttmacher claim these same abortions are “very rare”:
[L]ater abortions are very rare: In 2011, the most recent year for which there is sound data, only about 13,000 women terminated their pregnancies after 20 weeks, out of a total of about 1.06 million abortions.
I wouldn’t call 35.6 late-term abortions a day – or 1.5 an hour, every hour of the year – “very rare.”
But it’s exaggerating on on exaggerated scale to claim 20 million American women want them but can’t get them.
Which is it, abortion people?
There’s also Planned Parenthood’s assertion in its tweet that a ban on abortions past 20 weeks is a “serious attack on women’s health” (just another variation of the “war on women” meme, I note as an aside).
Actually, it’s quite the contrary. The risk of maternal mortality skyrockets when abortions are committed after 20 weeks (click to enlarge)…
Even when they try to avoid discussing the fetal victims of late-term abortions, they still fail on promoting them as a perk for women.
[HT for mortality chart: Clarke Forsythe of AUL]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Planned Parenthood presumes that all 20 million of those women stand with them when in reality a significant portion of them are pro-life. I am willing to bet that a majority of women in those states voted the pro-life politicians into office that passed 20 week abortion bans. Planned Parenthood pretends that they speak for all women when in fact many of us work to close their doors.
That final chart disturbs me.
I have been using an average number of 10 maternal deaths per year due directly to abortions and complications. That’s 10 out of a typical million abortion procedures per year. This is the data that pro-lifers usually report, and it comes from Guttmacher’s own publications.
But according to this peer-reviewed scientific report, the maternal mortality is much higher — close to 200 maternal deaths per year in the U.S.
Difficult data for pro-lifers to find, since abortion-related deaths are typically recorded under some other cause (such as “surgery” or “trauma” or “hemorrhage).
20 million is more than 1500 times greater than 13,000. I think in my statistics classes, we would have called that “significant exaggeration”, otherwise known as “deception”.
Sickens me!
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