Earlier this week, the Guttmacher Institute, one of the nation’s leading pro-abortion shills, released its annual report detailing abortion data in the U.S.  

Its findings? Almost nothing has changed since last year. Its basis for those findings? The vibes, obviously. 

There is no national abortion reporting law — meaning no one knows exactly how many abortions happen in the U.S. per year. Instead, the Guttmacher Institute based its estimates on other estimates based on a statistical model based on data collected on in-person and telehealth abortions from U.S. vendors. 

That’s a long train of so-called educated guesses (which alone would be cause enough to question Guttmacher’s ultimate estimate). But most of those guesses aren’t even grounded in that much reality. 

For one thing, abortion vendors themselves don’t even have accurate data on how many abortions they commit via Chemical Abortion Pills. One study of 14 Planned Parenthood affiliates found that in more than a third of cases, the nation’s largest abortion vendor didn’t even know whether a woman it gave the deadly pills to actually had an abortion. 

For another thing, a sizeable number of U.S. abortions aren’t performed by U.S.-based vendors. Instead, they’re the result of international organizations shipping Chemical Abortion Pills into the U.S. No one knows how many pills these organizations ship into the U.S. per year — and they certainly aren’t factored into the Guttmacher Institute’s estimates.  

Even without those serious methodology issues, the Guttmacher Institute’s data still wouldn’t be reliable, especially given its status as a not-so-secret front for the pro-abortion movement (it was originally founded as part of Planned Parenthood to expand the vendor’s business of aborting babies). 

In summary: The new data from the Guttmacher Institute is nothing more than guesswork by an organization clearly motivated to reach a certain set of results. 

Accurate abortion data is important, but to get it, several key changes must be implemented. Accurate data requires a nationwide reporting law — one that currently doesn’t exist. Yet even if there was a reporting law, the accuracy of that reporting would depend on the government restoring the in-person dispensing requirement for Chemical Abortion Pills. Without that requirement, there’s no way of knowing who received the Chemical Abortion Pills, whether they were taken, or even who took them. Not only that, but the government must prevent international organizations from shipping pills into the U.S. 

Without those changes, we’ll be stuck with guesswork instead of actual data — leaving us to guess how many more preborn babies and women have been harmed.