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Sarah Zagorski
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(Washington, D.C.): Led by Americans United for Life (AUL), top legal and medical pro-life groups, including the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs, Christian Medical & Dental Associations, and the Catholic Medical Association have delivered policy recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an effort to “increase the quality of data and reporting relating to maternal mortality and abortion” conducted by the agency and asked to provide a formal briefing to agency leadership.
Backed by thousands of physicians, AUL and these medical organizations are asking the CDC to:
The agency’s 2025 abortion surveillance report was intended to cover data from 2023 reporting data, the first full year after Dobbs v. Jackson. Following the report’s delay, HHS spokesperson Emily Hillard stated that the CDC was preparing the data for a Spring 2026 release. No report has been released.
Full policy recommendations for the CDC can be found in AUL’s policy brief, Improving Maternal Mortality Statistics for Public Health: Multi-Metric Models and Abortion Surveillance.
Gavin Oxley, author of the AUL policy brief and Director of External Affairs & Media Strategy, added, “Global public health is critical, but the CDC should work first for the advancement of American health, not bureaucratic international agencies. Flawed maternal mortality metrics hold hostage the data that women and their healthcare providers need to make informed medical decisions, working to the advantage of the abortion lobby. Women deserve to know the real risks associated with pregnancy outcomes, from childbirth to abortion.”
John Mize, CEO of Americans United for Life, stated, “While only Congress has the authority to mandate state abortion reporting, the CDC still has a role in advancing gold-standard reporting by expanding the voluntary elements requested. We urge Director Schwartz and agency leadership to expand anonymized abortion reporting as far as their congressional authority allows to advance public health and inform federal policy decisions.”
For more information or to arrange an interview with AUL, contact Sarah Zagorski at press@aul.org or 202-987-3321.
Since 1971, Americans United for Life (AUL) has advanced the human right to life in culture, law, and policy by equipping advocates and lawmakers with the facts and strategies that change hearts and minds and protect human life. The first national pro-life organization in the country, AUL is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization with a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.
The post Leading Pro-Life Experts to CDC: Fix Broken Maternal Mortality and Abortion Reporting Systems appeared first on Americans United for Life.
Backed by thousands of physicians, AUL and these medical organizations are asking the CDC to:
- Implement and publish a multi-metric U.S. maternal mortality dashboard that does not rely primarily on the World Health Organization’s flawed “live birth” ratio;
- Expand voluntary abortion surveillance elements included in annual state reporting requests; and
- Complete and release the 2025 abortion surveillance report that has been delayed for nearly a year past the series’ usual November release.
The agency’s 2025 abortion surveillance report was intended to cover data from 2023 reporting data, the first full year after Dobbs v. Jackson. Following the report’s delay, HHS spokesperson Emily Hillard stated that the CDC was preparing the data for a Spring 2026 release. No report has been released.
Full policy recommendations for the CDC can be found in AUL’s policy brief, Improving Maternal Mortality Statistics for Public Health: Multi-Metric Models and Abortion Surveillance.
Gavin Oxley, author of the AUL policy brief and Director of External Affairs & Media Strategy, added, “Global public health is critical, but the CDC should work first for the advancement of American health, not bureaucratic international agencies. Flawed maternal mortality metrics hold hostage the data that women and their healthcare providers need to make informed medical decisions, working to the advantage of the abortion lobby. Women deserve to know the real risks associated with pregnancy outcomes, from childbirth to abortion.”
John Mize, CEO of Americans United for Life, stated, “While only Congress has the authority to mandate state abortion reporting, the CDC still has a role in advancing gold-standard reporting by expanding the voluntary elements requested. We urge Director Schwartz and agency leadership to expand anonymized abortion reporting as far as their congressional authority allows to advance public health and inform federal policy decisions.”
For more information or to arrange an interview with AUL, contact Sarah Zagorski at press@aul.org or 202-987-3321.
Since 1971, Americans United for Life (AUL) has advanced the human right to life in culture, law, and policy by equipping advocates and lawmakers with the facts and strategies that change hearts and minds and protect human life. The first national pro-life organization in the country, AUL is a nonprofit, public-interest law and policy organization with a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.
The post Leading Pro-Life Experts to CDC: Fix Broken Maternal Mortality and Abortion Reporting Systems appeared first on Americans United for Life.