Planned Parenthood’s Guttmacher Institute has disclosed that a Delaware abortion provider has admitted to greatly underreporting the number of abortions it performs each year—including in statistics that it provided to Delaware’s Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS). Surrounding evidence points at 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 women 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). In its “Delaware Vital Statistics Annual Report 2008,” DHSS lists Delaware’s total number of abortions at 4,603, only 65% of Guttmacher’s total. Business Wire
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