Conservative blogger and CNN correspondent Erick Erickson is alleging that the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) three-month delay in releasing its annual Abortion Surveillance Report is evidence of an attempt on the part of the Obama administration to deliberately conceal the statistics revealed in this year’s report. The report, which releases data up to three years prior to the publication year, is typically published in late November. The 2010 report, however, has not yet been published.
Today, the conservative blog is reporting that the CDC has scheduled the data to be released in February, and that the delay was due to the fact that “the population data needed to develop rate/ratio statistics was not available at the time we normally prepare the ASR.” “This ignores the fact that the CDC’s 2010 report will use data from 2007,” wrote Erickson.
CDC Spokesperson Karen Hunter told LifeSiteNews in an interview that the delayed data was natality data from the National Center for Health Statistics. “The folks who write the report need that information to calculate the abortion ratio and rate,” she said, adding that the data is typically provided in May but was not furnished until August this year, which set the report back three months. LifeNews
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