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Remember when candidate Obama promised the most transparent White House ever? In case you forgot (and I wouldn’t blame you), here’s the White House blog describing the promise:

President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise. The President’s executive orders and proclamations will be published for everyone to review, and that’s just the beginning of our efforts to provide a window for all Americans into the business of the government.

I’m not going to recount for you all the ways this promise as been broken, but let’s just say no one takes it seriously anymore. The latest example involves not just the transparency of the process of government, but also of policy outcomes. As RedState reports, the Obama White House has decided that, the less the public knows about abortion, the better:

RedState has uncovered evidence – confirmed by the CDC’s own press office – that the Obama administration is deliberately playing “hide the ball” on nationwide abortion statistics. For apparently the first time in 40 years, the CDC’s annual “Abortion Surveillance Report” was not published, and there are “no plans” for the data to be produced at this time.

Whatever you feel about abortion and its legality, virtually all people agree that transparency and factual accuracy are important in the abortion debate.

…Yet, in the wake of numerous damaging disclosures about unscrupulous practices by abortionists (from Kermit Gosnell to Planned Parenthood clinics across the country), the Obama Administration has apparently ordered that the only Federal government report on abortion statistics – again, a report that has run continuously for 40 years – be deep-sixed.

More at RedState.

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