Posted on 07/30/2026 7:30:45 PM PDT by Morgana
The number of births to Black women in the United States fell more sharply than for any other major racial or ethnic group in 2024, according to final data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As a result of skyrocketing abortions in recent years due to the expansion of the abortion pill, the black birth rate is reaching levels described as among the lowest on record.
The CDC report, “Births: Final Data for 2024,” recorded 473,377 births to non-Hispanic Black women, a 4 percent decline from 491,494 in 2023. The general fertility rate for Black women dropped 5 percent to 50.9 births per 1,000 females ages 15–44, while the total fertility rate fell 5 percent to 1,501.0.
By comparison, births declined 2 percent among American Indian and Alaska Native women and less than 1 percent among non-Hispanic White women. Births rose 4 percent among Hispanic women and 5 percent among Asian women.
The overall U.S. total fertility rate hit a record low of 1,599.5 births per 1,000 women, well below the replacement level of roughly 2,100.
The birth rate among Black teens ages 15–19 fell 8 percent in that period, and the average age at first birth for Black women has risen to about 25.9.
Pro-life leaders view the sustained drop as the tragic continuation of a demographic crisis long warned about in the Black community.
In a July 27 analysis, Walter Hoye of the Issues4Life Foundation connected the trend to Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project,” which she introduced on June 25, 1939.
Hoye quoted Sanger’s December 18, 1939, letter: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Hoye argued that Sanger’s goal of limiting Black population growth is being realized through today’s low fertility. He noted that a statistically reconstructed estimate of the total fertility rate for Black women in the 1850s was 7.9 births per woman, and that rates far below the 2.11 replacement level threaten irreversible decline.
“Abortion in the Black American community needs to end now,” he wrote.
The CDC figures confirm a multi-year downward path for Black fertility, with births and rates falling steadily in recent years while remaining below replacement.
High abortion rates in the Black community, combined with broader cultural shifts toward delayed or forgone childbearing, are accelerating the very outcome Sanger once sought to achieve.
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There have been several major cities in several different years where abortions exceeded live births among African Americans.
CC
Doing so would reveal some interesting trends!
GFR of...
Non-Hisp. Black: % change = -5%; abs. change = -2.7 (dropping from 53.6 to 50.9)
Non-Hisp. White: % change = -1%; abs. change = -0.4 (dropping from 52.3 to 51.9)
Hispanic: % change = +4%; abs. change = +2.5 (rising from an already record-breaking 63.5 to 66.0)
Asian: % change = +5%; abs. change = +2.6 (rising from 51.0 to 53.6)
Am. Indian / Alaskan Native: % change = -2%; abs. change = -1.0 (dropping from 52.0 to 51.0)
TFR of...
Non-Hisp. Black: % change = -5%; abs. change = -79 (dropping from 1580 to 1501)
Non-Hisp. White: % change = -1%; abs. change = -15 (dropping from 1570 to 1555)
Hispanic: % change = +4%; abs. change = +70 (rising from an already record-breaking 1820 to 1890)
Asian: % change = +5%; abs. change = +70 (rising from 1460 to 1530)
Am. Indian / Alaskan Native: % change = -2%; abs. change = -30 (dropping from 1600 to 1570)
Summary: Non-Hisp. Blacks and Non-Hisp. Whites show declining births - from already low birth rates.
Hispanics who rising births - from already high birth rates!
Regards,
Black women, a 4 percent decline
Even they got fatigue?
Look at the look on
Cecile Richard’s face
there with Resident Joe Biden
😮🤯😧😨
A very proud look
Nearly 4 million abortions on
her watch at Planned SlaughterHood
Babies cut up and parted out like
an old Chevy Corvair
They created a junkyard of Baby Parts
🤦♀️🤦🤦♂️
Yep .. finally some good news.
I wonder what Margaret Sanger would say if she saw any of the millions of chimp out videos on X and YouTube.
Margaret Sanger realizes her dream
I don’t see any proof in this article that abortions have “sky-rocketed”, only that live births have dropped. This could actually be due to responsible, non-abortive forms of birth control.
the same folks who post “Is it them, BooBoo?” gnash their teeth about this.
Eyeroll.
It must be because of all those smart white guys marrying all those black women, like we see on TV commercials.
the biggest story of the last census no one talks about is the fact that the percentage of the population that is black DROPPED.
If you only watched movies, and watched liberal news you would assume blacks were about to become the majority.
It is all a lie.
Hispanics and Asians are growing really fast, and they keep peeling off groups that used to be counted in the white category in order to push the narrative that whites are becoming a minority.
the day after pill made it much easier for to abort babies for those too irresponsible to take a daily pill.
at least it is a nice break from the constant black man white woman commercials they pushed the previous 20 years.
My rule would be 3 children supported by the taxpayers - involuntary sterilization, male or female.
“the same folks who post “Is it them, BooBoo?” gnash their teeth about this.
Eyeroll.”
The reason Boo Boo always has to ask goes back to abortion and how it destroyed the family unit, which is what certain people wanted to happen
I will have to disagree with you on this entire subject.
abortion didn’t destroy the family unit ... the great society did ...
Black History Month should remind people Democrats professed an apparent contradiction as they seceded to begin the Civil War.
They demanded protection where slavery existed, and the right to take their “peculiar property” into the territories. They had demanded trading their property across state lines and that states enforce the Fugitive Slave Law. Yet during prior and final Congressional debates, and in the Confederate Constitution Southerners joined near universal condemnations of international slave trading.
This contradiction vanished when understanding the South was being overrun with its property. Democrat Senator Alfred Iverson of Georgia said before Congress in 1861, “We know well that we never can enjoy equal possession of the territories without protection of our property….. They increase, according to the last census bill, at the rate of 32% every ten years.” The South needed new slave states and plantations to absorb the increasing population.
Over one hundred fifty years later black communities provide voting plurality to the Democrat party and adopt their Pro-Choice sacrament of abortion. According to the Centers for Disease Control, black women in 2021 accounted for 25% of abortions, though blacks constituted 15% of total population. Applying antebellum population growth with the Roe v. Wade decision as a marker would mean 95 million blacks instead of the 50 million currently living.
So, what benefits override the contradiction of providing the Democratic party 90% voting support, compared to the antebellum mandate for contributing 60% of black humanity to enrich the Democrat slave master’s political status?
If you want to both limit abortions and limit government coercion, tell these women that the only way they’d be eligible for an EBT card and other welfare benefits after several kids is to voluntarily consent to a sterilization. Most prefer the hand-out to having another kid and would agree. There’s no coercion because nobody is forcing them to live off welfare.
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