“D*mn the Statistics” Says IPPF Head at Women Deliver

By Wendy Wright | May 28, 2013

“D*mn the statistics!” So says the head of International Planned Parenthood Federation. He was speaking at Women Deliver, a global conference on family planning and abortion.

This is striking considering his movement has relied heavily on manipulating statistics to gain backing for family planning and abortion. Planned Parenthood even created the Guttmacher Institute to craft statistics to influence policy debates.

“Why do we have to rely on statistics,” Tewodros Melesse asked, “D*mn the statistics! Do we have to use statistics when mothers and sisters are dying!”

The Women Deliver conference was conceived as a way to direct efforts to reduce deaths from childbirth toward family planning and abortion. They ran into problems when it was discovered the statistics for maternal mortality were inflated.

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