Title: The Case Against Abortion: Abortion and Race
Headings: Abortion and Race
Abortion and Race
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Page Summary: In the United States, black children are aborted at more than three times the rate of white children; Hispanic children are aborted at one and a half times the rate. Whatever the intentions of Planned Parenthood, abortion is eliminating an incommensurate number of minority children. 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.