Title: Who's getting abortions? Not who you'd think
Headings: Who's getting abortions? Not who you'd think
Who's getting abortions? Not who you'd think
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Content: In fact, the women come from virtually every demographic sector. But year after year the statistics reveal that black women and economically struggling women — who have above-average rates of unintended pregnancies — are far more likely than others to have abortions. About 13 percent of American women are black, yet new figures from the Centers for Disease Control show they account for 35 percent of the abortions. Black anti-abortion activists depict this phenomenon in dire terms — “genocide” and “holocaust,” for example. But often the women getting the abortions say they act in the interests of children they already have. “It wasn’t a hard decision for me to make, because I knew where I wanted to go in my life — I’ve never regretted it,” said Kimberly Mathias, 28, an African-American single mother from Missouri. She had an abortion at 19, when she already raising a 2-year-old son. “It wasn’t hard to realize I didn’t want another child at that time,” Mathias said. “ I was trying to take care of the one I had, and going to college and working at the same time.” She was able to graduate, now has an insurance job, and — still a single mother — has a 3-year-old son as well as her first-born, now 11.