Red State vs. the CDC on Abortion Stats
So far it seems Red State has secured a victory. But we’ll see. It looks like the CDC was trying to bury abortion statistics. Check out the story from Red State. They seem to be doing some good reporting on this.
It’s never the action, it’s the cover up.
Yesterday RedState broke a significant story which points to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s premier public health organization, making a conscious decision to stop publishing the only federal report on abortion.
To briefly recap, for 40 years the CDC has published the Abortion Surveillance Report. For 40 years that report has appeared in the last November or first December issue of CDC’s journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Report Weekly Report. This year it didn’t. A RedState tradition has been to use this report for our annual retrospective on abortion. When it didn’t appear in November… or December… or in January we decided to ask why