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Planned Parenthood’s Guttmacher Institute has disclosed that a Delaware abortion provider has admitted to greatly underreporting the number of abortions it performs every single year-including in statistics that it supplied to Delaware’s Department of Well being and Social Services (DHSS).

“For too long abortion providers have been allowed to practice with out regulation or safeguards, and it now appears that the scope of their operations has been hidden by false reports to government authorities, at the same time. Delawareans need to know the whole truth behind our state’s abortion industry.”

Surrounding evidence points in the scandal-plagued Atlantic Women’s Medical Services, which has recently been linked to indicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell and only this week was suspended from the national abortion provider network.

The Guttmacher Institute’s 2008 statistics also reveal that Delaware now has the highest abortion rate in the nation, at 40 abortions annually per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44. The state’s abortion rate is higher than those of New York, New Jersey, and California, long the leaders in abortion.

Guttmacher further states that 7,070 abortions were performed in Delaware in 2008 (the last year for which figures are available)1.

In its “Delaware Vital Statistics Annual Report 2008,” DHSS lists Delaware’s total number of abortions at 4,603, only 65% of Guttmacher’s total2.

In an attempt to discover the cause for the enormous discrepancy, Ellen Barrosse, President of A Rose and a Prayer (ARAAP), spoke yesterday to Dr. Rachel Jones, Senior Research Associate for the Guttmacher Institute. Dr. Jones confirmed that her researchers received data from each abortion provider in Delaware.

Dr. Jones revealed that for 2007 and 2008, 1 provider supplied numbers that had been substantially higher than the number it had given in previous years. When asked to explain the sudden and dramatic increase, the provider indicated that it had not been reporting all the abortions accomplished at the facility, and that the actual number of abortions had not increased at all.

That’s an additional 2,467 abortions per year, or more than 200 additional abortions per month.

Dr. Jones declined to identify the provider. The fact that abortions procured by Delaware residents increased by only 530, although abortions procured by out-of-state residents increased by almost 2,000, suggests that the provider that falsified its records is in New Castle County, which is nearer to large population centers in other states.

There are only two providers in New Castle County-Planned Parenthood of Delaware and Atlantic Women’s Medical Services.

Just across the state line from Pennsylvania, which requires that minors get parental consent for abortions, Delaware has long officially reported out-of-state abortions at approximately 25% with the total for the state. The new numbers supplied by Guttmacher indicate that 46%-almost half-of all abortions completed in Delaware are performed on out-of-state women-many of whom may be minors evading parental consent laws in their home states.

Unfortunately, due to the fact the Guttmacher statistics for Delaware don’t include age data and since the state data are clearly flawed, we don’t know how a lot of of those who seek abortions here are young girls trying to avoid their parents’ involvement.

Dr. Jones told Ms. Barrosse that a female staff member of DHSS spoke to her to make an effort to uncover the reason for the large discrepancy between Guttmacher’s numbers and DHSS’s. Dr. Jones said that she supplied the very same data to the caller as she did to A Rose and a Prayer, but DHSS has yet to update its numbers to reflect the details it received.

A Rose and a Prayer asks that Attorney General Beau Biden quickly investigate what appears to be a clear case of offering false details to a state agency by an abortion provider.

Ms. Barrosse stated that “Attorney General Biden needs to make use of his subpoena power to find out why DHSS was provided with materially false and misleading info and regardless of whether this was carried out to obscure from the General Assembly and also the community at large what has been going on in New Castle County’s abortion clinics.

“For too long abortion providers have been allowed to practice with no regulation or safeguards, and it now appears that the scope of their operations has been hidden by false reports to government authorities, also. Delawareans need to know the whole truth behind our state’s abortion industry.”

A Rose and a Prayer will probably be working with concerned members of Delaware’s General Assembly to determine how to deal using the revelation that Delaware has become a destination for abortions for minors from other states-and regardless of whether the State’s failure to regulate abortion clinics has led to this problem.

A Rose and a Prayer and its African-American Advisory Board will probably be holding a joint press conference at Theater N inside the Nemours Building (1007 N. Orange St., Wilmington, DE) on Friday, February 4th, at 10 AM.

1. See table from Guttmacher Institute’s Create a Table attached

2. Table D-13, page 140

Source:
Planned Parenthood’s Guttmacher Institute