Title: The Case Against Abortion: Abortion and Race
Headings: Abortion and Race
Abortion and Race
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Though the black population in America grew by 12% between 2000 and 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the black population "grew at a slower rate than most other major race and ethnic groups in the country." 16 CBS News reported in 2009 that "Hispanics have surpassed blacks as the nation's largest minority group." 17 Can there be any doubt that abortion has significantly impacted this demographic shift? Despite similar population numbers, Hispanic women account for approximately 19% of U.S. abortions whereas African-American women account for up to 38%. The CDC reports that during the 1970's, roughly 24% of all U.S. abortions were performed on black women. 18 That percentage rose to 30% in the 1980's, 34% in the 1990's, 36% throughout the 2000's and now sits at 38%. 19 That means that roughly 32% of all U.S. abortions since 1973 have been performed on African American women. Based on the January 2020 estimate that there have been 61.6 million abortions in the United States since 1973, 20 we can deduce that almost 20 million of them were performed on black babies. As of July 2019, the black population in the U.S. stood somewhere around 44 million, 21 which means that abortion has reduced the size of the black community by more than 30%—and that doesn't include the children and grandchildren that would have been born to those aborted more than a generation ago. Recognizing that abortion disproportionately impacts minorities is one thing.