Title: The Case Against Abortion: Abortion and Race
Headings: Abortion and Race
Abortion and Race
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Content: 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. 11
In 2018, approximately 2,400 human beings lost their lives to abortion each day in the United States. 12 On average, 19% were Hispanic, 38% were black, and 35% were white. 13 That translates to approximately 456 Hispanic children, 912 black children, and 840 white children. Though the white population in the U.S. outnumbers the black population by more than four to one, 14 abortion kills more black children each day than it does white children. In fact, abortion claims virtually the same number of black lives each year in the United States as all other causes combined.