Title: The Case Against Abortion: Abortion and Race
Headings: Abortion and Race
Abortion and Race
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Content: In America today, the average black woman is almost five times more likely to have an abortion than the average white woman. 1 Part of this disparity owes to the fact that, statistically, black women get pregnant more frequently than white women, 2 but even if we control for pregnancy, black babies are still more than three-and-a-half times more likely to be aborted than their white counterparts. 3 No matter what your opinion of abortion, the fact that it disproportionality eliminates members of the minority community is a significant sociological problem. Here’s what it looks like by the numbers. According to the latest census estimates, just over 13% of the U.S. population is black, 4 and yet somewhere between 28-38% of all U.S. abortions are performed on black babies. The Guttmacher Institute puts that number at 28%, based on voluntary 2014 survey data from 8,380 respondents. 5 The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) places the number at 38%, based on actual counts of every 2016 abortion performed in the 30 states/districts that collect and report abortion data by race. 6 By comparison, non-Hispanic white women make up 60% of the population but account for only 35-39% of all abortions. 7
Among black women, the current abortion ratio is 401. 8 That means there are 401 abortions for every 1,000 live births.