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Require every state to report detailed abortion statistics

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 14, p. 455. Written by Roger Severino.

Require every state to report detailed abortion statistics

The document says “shouldWho acts: HHS, CDCHow: regulationp. 455 in the PDF
What the document says

“HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 455

The chapter asks that reports cover gestational age, reason, the mother's state of residence and method, separated by category, and that complications and every instance of a child born alive after an abortion be monitored and reported. It says abortion should be defined only as procedures that intentionally end an unborn child's life, and that miscarriage management and standard ectopic pregnancy treatment should never be conflated with abortion.

What the document actually says

“HHS should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 455
That sentence, in plain words

Make every state report its abortion numbers. Cut their funding if they will not.

What this is about

States are not all required to report abortions. The book says every state should have to. It says money should be cut off if they refuse.

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