The Biography of a Bad Statistic

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Abortions rising under Bush? Not true. How that false claim came to be -and lives on.

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Politicians from Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Howard Dean have recently contended that abortions have increased since George W. Bush took office in 2001.

This claim is false. It’s based on an an opinion piece that used data from only 16 states. A study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute of 43 states found that abortions have actually decreased.

Click the link below for the entire article:

factcheck.org/article330m.html
 
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