The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research and policy analysis organization, was founded as an affiliate of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.  It’s namesake, Dr. Alan Guttmacher, was an obstetrician and gynecologist who served as the president of Planned Parenthood and vice-president of the American Eugenics Society (they changed their name in 1972 to The Society for the Study of Social Biology and are in process of changing their name again to Society of Biodemography and Social Biology).

Dr. Guttmacher also founded the American Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians, now known as the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. He founded the Association for the Study of Abortion in 1964. He was a member of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization (Another name change, it seems Dr. Guttmacher’s names were all too honest).

Guttmacher’s belief in the convenience killing of children was helpfully summed up in something he said himself: ”No woman is completely free unless she is wholly capable of controlling her fertility and…no baby receives its full birthright unless it is born gleefully wanted by its parents.”

Were we to literally apply those last, frightening, words of the doctor these days, the blood flow would be endless.  Like most abortion proponents, the doctor held the innocent to account for the coldness of the parents.  If the parents didn’t feel like having the child then the child was, in the doctor’s mind, a candidate for death.

The Guttmacher Institute pretends to be the authority on all things “reproductive”.  The Institute’s research is frequently quoted in news articles citing data related to abortion and pregnancy and, well, all things “reproductive”. Yes, they refer to abortion as a “reproductive health issue”.

Their history isn’t clear on their website but readers can safely assume that the institute exists to promote pro-abortion data.

In a recent news article in the NY Times and another article on the Institute’s own website, the Guttmacher Institutes “research” was cited saying that teen pregnancy rates and teen abortion rates rose for the first time in years because of the Bush administration’s funding for abstinence only programs that apparently never mentioned contraception. Of course, the articles failed to mention the almost nationally mandated  instruction on contraception in health classes in public schools and the programs still in existence that have been teaching contraception for years and years.

This probably isn’t the first time the pro-life Bush administration was blamed for increases in abortion by people who actually support abortion, an argument that can only be a strategic lie or evidence of insanity in it’s purveyors. Of course, these days, especially the past two weeks, it’s very popular to blame the Bush administration for everyone’s troubles.

I read the Institute’s data myself and was surprised to see that the increase was only about one percent and that from 2005 to 2006! Both articles mentioned that it is “too soon” to tell what the real cause of this increase is, yet both articles were comfortable blaming the Bush administration’s support of abstinence only education programs for the increase.

But we should believe them. We should believe them that pro-abortion president Bill Clinton’s policies were actually more pro-life because they resulted in condoms lying around in locker rooms all over the country?

For every pro-lifer out there, following the “data” of a pro-abortion institute, like the Guttmacher Institute, is like letting Burger King convince you that their food is really health food because their burgers are “flame broiled” and that it’s actually unhealthy to keep Burger King out of your diet (not that BK would ever say this of course).

For Christians, believing Guttmacher data about abortion would be like letting Satan tell you that Jesus is a bastard prophet who was nothing more than a good teacher and that believing on Jesus for salvation has done more harm for the world than good.

Not many will say this about the Guttmacher Institute, but from everything I’ve read, their institute is one massive cavern of deceit.