Abortion Rate Among Black Women Far Exceeds Rate for Other Groups

Planned Parenthood officials did not produce a response to this claim. The organization performed 22 percent of all abortions in 2005 (260,000 out of 1.2 million abortions).

Blacks do, indeed, have much higher rates of abortions than whites or other minority groups. In 2000, while blacks made up 17 percent of live births, they made up more than twice that share of abortions (36 percent). If those aborted children had been born, the number of blacks born would have been slightly over 50 percent greater than it was.

The comparison with whites and other minorities is striking. Whites made up 78 percent of live births, but only 57 percent of abortions. Non-black minorities had 7 percent of live births and 5 percent of abortions. If the aborted children had been born for either group, the percentage increase in the number of children born to these groups would have been less than that for blacks: 16 and 32 percent, respectively.

Data from 1973 on indicate that black women's share of abortions has consistently been at least twice their share of live births.

But not all those babies would necessarily have been born if abortion were illegal or harder to obtain. A number of recent academic studies have found that making abortion more difficult results in less pre-marital sex and fewer pre-marital pregnancies.

In 1973, the year the Supreme Court rendered its Roe v. Wade decision, there were 11 abortions per 1000 women aged 15 to 44. Eight years later, that number doubled for the same group to 22. In terms of the total number of abortions, 615,831 legal abortions took place in 1973; 1,300,760 in 1981.

Why would a woman of virtue WANT one of these "average guys"?

I guess I'm a bit younger than the average FReeper. In my age group, almost everyone has that attitude. Couples that wait are by far the exception.

A few months is when the guys usually bail.

I get blank stares when I tell guys my girlfriend's body isn't what I love most about her. And they laugh if I say I don't mind waiting.

I know the best natural way to not get pregnant is to wait. You can be intimate in other ways.

“Exactly, eugenics and genocide. Black folks are suckers for our continued support of the Democrats who favor a platform that wants to wipe us out. .... either before we are born or with liberal policies that perpetuate the slave mentality. That is one of the reasons this sister and many black people that I know have broken away. It is still not enough though.”

Congratulations!! Welcome to the club!

The problem with Obama, like most Dems, refuses to pinpoint the most important SINGLE cause of the cultural degradation in much of the black community. That cause is the destruction of the 2 parent black family. The precipitate cause of this tragedy was the welfare state created by LBJ and (mostly) the DemocRAT Party. But since Barack He who must not be middle named Obama wants to extend and expand the welfare state to all of America, he is careful to avoid drawing the correct conclusions.
When you point out that the Democratic Party’s entire history and policies have been antithetical to the best interests of the black community, and that to the extent that a major political party is responsible for any political and civil liberty that black people have, they owe it to the Republican Party, and even when you can prove that historically and factually the most amazing case of political cognitive dissonance then occurs.
The common response is, well that may be true but only the Democrats are “for us”. They usually go on to an entirely erroneous understanding of Nixon’s Southern strategy, a distortion of Berry Goldwater’s principled opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and completely ignore the fact that the Democratic Party was founded amongst other things, to extend slavery into the territory’s. The Democratic Party opposed 13, 14, and 15th amendment to the United States Constitution, reconstruction, every bit of foundational civil rights legislation from 1866 to 1968, instituted Jim Crow in the Southern states, refused to enact antilynching laws, and most importantly destroyed the two-parent black family with Lyndon Johnson’s welfare state. When you point out the fact that the modern-day Democratic Party is home to the pro-abortion forces that have enhanced the wildly disproportionate abortion rate in the black community, that doesn’t seem to register either.
The black community is in the throes of the worst political brainwashing outside of the Soviet Union and I just don’t know what can be done about it. I am constantly engaged in debates with people in my community and they are determined to vote for Democrats despite the clear and present evidence of their utterly destructive policies. The staggeringly high level of political cognitive dissonance amongst my people is frightening.

It is time we stop being slaves to this government and stand on our own two feet.

And no reasonable person can blame blacks for seeing the US Federal government as the solution to their problems; it was that same government that freed slaves, that opened school doors. But that government cannot change minds, cannot enforce thought. Respect, equality, those are things earned by individuals, not enforced by dictate.

If someone's a bigot, why would you want their acceptance? I'd take one Harlem renaissance over 10,000 atlanta thug rap dynasties.

The fatherlessness is a HUGE part of the chain that needs to be broken.

I went to college with some very brilliant young black women who were basically getting all of their education paid for, and yet they still chose the getting pregnant out of wed lock and not really being with the father of the baby thing. I just don't get it. I have kind of lost track of them, but I don't think that any of them actually managed to finish school and get their degrees. I just don't get it?

I am white, however, I grew up in a poor Latino community and saw this kind of stuff all the time. I just did not want to repeat it myself. Why would anybody want to repeat a hellish pattern like being a single mother to children that are not really being cared for by their fathers?

I will never understand it.

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