Title: The Case Against Abortion: Abortion and Race
Headings: Abortion and Race
Abortion and Race
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Content: 18 That percentage rose to 30% in the 1980's, 34% in the 1990's, 36% throughout the 2000's and now sits at 38%. 19 That means that roughly 32% of all U.S. abortions since 1973 have been performed on African American women. Based on the January 2020 estimate that there have been 61.6 million abortions in the United States since 1973, 20 we can deduce that almost 20 million of them were performed on black babies. As of July 2019, the black population in the U.S. stood somewhere around 44 million, 21 which means that abortion has reduced the size of the black community by more than 30%—and that doesn't include the children and grandchildren that would have been born to those aborted more than a generation ago. Recognizing that abortion disproportionately impacts minorities is one thing. Understanding why is quite another. According to a 2017 Pew Research survey, there is not much of an ideological divide between blacks and whites when it comes to abortion. Though a black woman is up to five times more likely to have an abortion than a white woman, she is only .002 times more likely to support abortion as a matter of public policy. 22 And though black women are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than white women, their poverty levels are relatively comparable to Hispanic women. 23 In both cases, the disparity in income doesn’t match the disparity in abortions—which tells us that something beyond ideology and economics is at work here.