Posted on 11/23/2007 9:42:44 AM PST by wagglebee
Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) -- The new report the Centers for Disease Control released this week about annual abortion figures in the United States shows abortions continue to target black women moreso than other ethnic groups. The 2004 report also shows about 10 percent of all abortions in the United States are done with the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug.
The CDC shows a majority of women who get abortions are white (53 percent) compared with 35 percent done on African-Americans, 8 percent on women of other ethnic backgrounds and the race of the woman was unknown in four percent of the cases.
However, the abortion ratio for black women (472 per 1,000 live births) was 2.9 times higher than the ratio for white women (161 per 1,000).
Examined another way, nearly half of all pregnancies among black women end in abortion while just 16 percent of pregnancies among while women end in abortion.
The abortion rate for black women (28 per 1,000 women) was 2.8 times the rate for white women (10 per 1,000) -- meaning a much greater percentage
Those statistics continue to worry pro-life leaders in the African-American community.
On 27 reporting areas adequately obtained abortion stats by ethnicity and those areas showed that 19 percent of the women getting abortions were Hispanic -- with a low of 0.6% in Mississippi to a high of 50% in New Mexico.
For Hispanic women in these reporting areas, the abortion ratio was 211 per 1,000 live births, and the abortion rate was 26 per 1,000 women. However, only 46% of Hispanic women in the United States resided in these reporting areas.
About half of all abortions are done on women 25 years and older and half done on college-aged women and teenagers.
The CDC statistics continue to show that women involved in a marital relationship are less likely to have abortions -- perhaps because they are not as concerned about the financial implications of having a child as unmarried women.
For women whose marital status was adequately reported (41 reporting areas), 80% of women who obtained abortions were known to be unmarried. The abortion ratio for unmarried women (510 per 1,000 live births) was 8.4 times that for married women (61 per 1,000).
Repeat abortions continue to be a problem in the United States, showing a sizable percentage of women getting abortions are using it as a method of birth control.
The data also showed that 46 percent of women getting abortions in 2004 had at least one prior abortion and 19 percent of the women getting abortions had at least two or more prior abortions.
Maryland, Massachusetts and New York had the highest repeat abortion rates and nearly 70 percent of the abortions done in Maryland were repeat abortions -- by far the highest in the nation.
Looking at the method of abortion, 87% of abortions were known to have been performed by curettage (which includes dilatation and evacuation [D&E]) and 10% of all abortions include the mifepristone abortion pill approved by the Clinton administration in September 2000.
States with the highest percentage of abortions by RU 486 include Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, South Carolina, Utah and Vermont -- with all having more than 20% of their abortions done with dangerous drugs.
Most of the abortions done in the U.S. came when the baby was eight weeks along or younger (61%) and the vast majority (87%) were done at 12 weeks into the pregnancy or younger.
About five percent of the reported abortions were known to have occurred after 15 weeks' gestation: 3.7% at 16--20 weeks and 1.3% at 21 weeks or longer.
In 2004, the highest number of reported legal induced abortions occurred in Florida (91,710), NYC (91,673), and Texas (74,801); while the lowest occurred in Idaho (963) and South Dakota (814).
Wyoming and New Hampshire may have had lower figures but their abortion totals are not adequately reported to the CDC.
About 92 percent of women obtained the abortion in their home state while almost 8 percent went out of state for the abortion.
The District of Columbia (52.6%), Kansas (48.2%), North Dakota (37.5 percent) and Delaware (28.9%) had the highest percentage of out-of-state abortions. Other than Alaska and Hawaii, Michigan, Mississippi, and Arizona had the lowest totals.
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“The new report the Centers for Disease Control released this week about annual abortion figures in the United States shows abortions continue to target black women moreso than other ethnic groups.”
I can see it now. An abortion with a rifle tip-toeing through the woods, “Shhhh! Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. I’m hunting blacks.”
LOL!
Planned Parenthood was FOUNDED in order to exterminate the “inferior” black race. To this day 40% of babies murdered by PP are black.
It is amazing that vast federal funds flow to PP to murder black children to this day. The democrat party are naked racism, hiding in plain sight.
"Target" blacks? Huh? Is there some sort of marketing campaign going on or something? What is this loaded statement supposed to mean?
Latest stats also show that over 70% of black births are out of wedlock. Whose fault is that?
Planned Parenthood was FOUNDED in order to exterminate the “inferior” black race. To this day 40% of babies murdered by PP are black.
It is amazing that vast federal funds flow to PP to murder black children to this day. The democrat party is institutionalized naked racism, hiding in plain sight, supported in every election by its blind, deceived victims.
“Planned Parenthood was FOUNDED in order to exterminate the “inferior” black race.”
Keep perpetuating the lie, brother. The ends justify the means right? After all, why should liberals be the only ones who throw the race card.
MLK’s neice is out there preaching this, but she is truly a voice crying in the wilderness.
Yep, abortions seems to be directed against blacks. The Klan and southern lynch mobs didn’t even kill 1% of annual aborted black babies.
"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people
Keep perpetuating the lie, brother. The ends justify the means right? After all, why should liberals be the only ones who throw the race card.
Then how do you explain these quotes by Margaret Sanger?:
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…"
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
"Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems."
"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying… a dead weight of human waste… an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."
"[Mandatory] sterilization for [the insane and feeble-minded] is the answer."
"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization."
Nailed ‘em, but good!
True, the concept of “abortion” (as if it were an aggressor) “targeting” blacks is a little strange. On the other hand, PP abortuaries are disproportionately located in Black and Latino neighborhoods, and with abortion (as in many other elective, um, “services”) supply tends to generate demand -— does that surprise you? Of course, vice-versa too.
No doubt Maggie Sanger and her pal satan are doing the dance of shameful joy in hell.
It’s not “playing the race card” when it’s demonstrably true.
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