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: “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. 'A silent killer'
By contrast, Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King Jr., calls herself a “reformed murderer” for undergoing two abortions when she was young. Now an outspoken anti-abortion campaigner, King says the best way to reduce abortions among black women is to dissuade more of them from premarital sex. “We give free sex education, free condoms, free birth control,” she complained. “ That’s almost like permission to have free sex, and the higher the rate of sexual activity, the higher the rate of unintended pregnancy.” Anti-abortion activist Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union says many blacks are unaware of their community’s high abortion rate.