[Riverman94610]

When I was teaching in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans in the early Seventies,one frequently heard comment from my students was”only white girls get abortions.WE keep our kids”
I don’t know when that changed.I still think most black moms opt to have their children,man or no man around.Yet all stats recently show that black women are having abortions at as great a rate as white women.

[paltz]

When I was teaching in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans in the early Seventies,one frequently heard comment from my students was”only white girls get abortions.WE keep our kids” I don’t know when that changed.I still think most black moms opt to have their children,man or no man around.Yet all stats recently show that black women are having abortions at as great a rate as white women.

The local gov'ts made abortions less expensive and more accessible. On top of that, more minority women are going to college than ever before. That being said, abortion became more of a reality for the same reasons white girls were having them...affordability, accessibility, and career.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, Klan Parenthood and their allies are aborting black babies at 3x the rate of whites: African-Americans = 12% of American population, 35% of American abortions.

[utahagen]

A social worker I know tells me that “black girls don’t get abortions”, but I’ve done some research that explains why this may merely seem to be the case. Statistically, unmarried black women have more pregnancies (per woman) than unmarried white woman do (per woman). In addition, speaking very generally, black people disapprove of abortion more than white people do. So, an unmarried black woman is less likely to abort than an unmarried white woman...HOWEVER, because an unmarried black women may have several more pregnancies than a white woman, she may choose abortion once for, say, every three babies she carries to term; whereas an unmarried white woman may have just one out of wedlock pregnancy, which she aborts.