A new study in a Mexican medical journal casts light on the deception intentionally sewn by the Guttmacher Institute regarding the number of “unsafe” abortions in several Latin American countries.

Stafano Gennarini, J.D., reported on the international blog Turtle Bay and Beyond, that “[a]ccording to the authors Guttmacher did not only obtain estimates that are empirically impossible through unsound methodology, but they failed to validate their numbers with estimates that are readily attainable through tested and established epidemiological methods.”

According to Gennarini,

For years abortion activists have claimed that there is an overwhelming demand for abortion in Latin America. What has been surfacing in recent years is that Guttmacher, IPPF, WHO and other well-funded large organizations have been using inflated figures to make a case for free access to abortion in developing countries. They claim that unless abortion is legal it substantially increases maternal mortality and morbidity. It looks as though the numbers are finally catching up with them.

The journal article, written by doctors and academics from Chile, pointed to a Guttmacher report that estimated 400,400 clandestine abortions per year in Colombia in 2008, when the real number of induced abortions was “more like 22,000.”

Guttmacher was conceived as the research arm of Planned Parenthood, and now claims independent status. For decades, it has pumped out statistics that have been relied upon to obtain billions of dollars in government funding for the abortion giant, and to promote its abortion agenda worldwide.

Instead of helping provide basic medical care and necessities that are central to lowering maternal mortality, Planned Parenthood continues to senselessly push—against all the evidence—for more abortion access. It is time to write Planned Parenthood and the Guttmacher Institute out of the worldwide healthcare playbook and bring back true compassion and common sense.