Title: The Case Against Abortion: Abortion and Race
Headings: Abortion and Race
Abortion and Race
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Content: 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. Statistically, 29% of black pregnancies end in abortion (excluding miscarriages). Among white women, the abortion ratio is 109—which means less than 10% of white pregnancies end in abortion. 9 The current abortion rate among black women, which is the number of abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age is 25.1. 10 That means that in 2016, 2.5% of black women, aged 15-44, had an abortion. By comparison, only 0.67% of white women of reproductive age had an abortion that year.