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Abortion Kills More Black Americans Than the Seven Leading Causes of Death Combined, Says CDC Data
CNS News ^ | 10/23/09 | Karen Schuberg

Posted on 10/25/2009 9:40:20 AM PDT by wagglebee

(CNSNews.com) – Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available.
 
Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC.  During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined.  These were the seven leading causes of death for black Americans that year. 

A total of 49 jurisdictions reported their abortion numbers for 2005 to the CDC. These included all 50 states--except California, Louisiana, and New Hampshire--and New York City and the District of Columbia.  Of these 49 jurisdiction, only 36 states plus New York City and the District of Columbia reported the number of abortions by race. 

Of these 36 states, Georgia reported the largest number of abortions--18,325--among African Americans.  Idaho and Montana reported the fewest, 16 and 17 respectively.
 
Among the large states not reporting abortions by race--and thus where the number of blacks killed by abortions is not included in the national total of 203,991--are California, Florida, Illinois and the rest of New York state outside of New York City.
 
According to the CDC, the total of 203,991 blacks killed by abortion in 2005 also does not include those aborted by "private physicians’ procedures.”
 
Every year since 1969, the CDC has amassed abortion data by state or area of occurrence, requesting information each year from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. The CDC attempts to collect data on abortions by the age, race and marital status of  the women who undergo them as well as the type of abortion procedure.
 
However, the “CDC is not a regulatory agency,” Senior Press Officer Karen Hunter told CNSNews.com. “So while we are required by Congress to collect this information, states are not required to provide any data to the CDC, including abortion surveillance.”
 
In 2005, a total of 820,151 legal abortions were performed in the 49 jurisdication that reported abortions to the CDC, according to the “Abortion Surveillance” report, which is published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or MMWR, for Nov. 28, 2008. (Scroll up to top of report)
 
The report states, “Approximately 1 in 5 U.S. pregnancies have ended in abortion,” and also notes some limitations on the data: “The overall number, ratio, and rate of abortions are conservative estimates; the total numbers of legal induced abortions provided by central health agencies and reported to the CDC for 2005 were probably lower than the numbers actually performed.”
 
In Table 9 of the report, it states that there were 203,991 blacks killed by abortion, which comprises 35.5 percent of all abortions reported for that year.

Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., founder of BlackGenocide.org, told CNSNews.com that according to numbers gleaned from statistics provided by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion group, 1,784 blacks are aborted each day. Also, he notes on his Web site that three out of five African-American women will obtain an abortion.
 
Childress said the information and sources on his Web site have never been challenged by abortion-access supporters. “This is because they can see that themselves, and they know them probably to be far worse than we’re reporting. The facts come from the pro-abort/pro-choice community,” he said.
 
“You want to go to a reliable source where people can’t dismiss what you’re saying,” Childress said.
 
“Yet the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, Urban League, and the National Action Committee of Al Sharpton fail abysmally to report not only the decimation but the health ramifications which are questionably very pertinent and provable,” said Childress.  
 
“It would be one thing if we were talking about something hypothetically, but these are actual empirical proofs. … We simply want the health issues of abortion to be discussed,” Childress added.
 
Susan Cohen, director of government affairs at the Guttmacher Institute, said that black women are not inordinately targeted. 
 
It is the high number of unintended pregnancies among black women that explains the disproportionate number of black abortions, she stated in a policy analysis, “Abortion and Women of Color: The Bigger Picture (2008),” which was provided to CNSNews.com by Guttmacher Institute spokeswoman Rebecca Wind.

While acknowledging that the abortion rate for blacks in the United States is “almost 5 times that for white women,” Cohen concluded in her analysis, “these higher unintended pregnancy rates (among African American women) reflect the particular difficulties that many women in minority communities face in accessing high-quality contraceptive services and in using their chosen method of birth control consistently and effectively over long periods of time."
 
“Because black women experience so many more unintended pregnancies than any other group—sharply disproportionate to their numbers in the general population—they are more likely to seek out and obtain abortion services than any other group,” said Cohen.  
 
 When asked to comment on this report, Dr. Freda Bush, an obstetrician and gynecologist in private practice in Jackson, Miss., told CNSNews.com that she found the explanation for the high rate of black abortions “disingenuous.”
 
“I would just like for them to explain why there’s such a significant proportion of their clinics that are located in minority communities,” said Bush, who is black. “So if you’ll notice, I did not mention that as a factor when I talked to you [earlier], so I was not accusing them of anything. 
 
“I was just pointing out the fact that we have more, but since they brought it up, I would like for them to explain where their clinics are located, and why their clinics are located in that area,” she added.
 
“I would also like for an explanation of why their founder, Margaret Sanger, who was a known eugenist, also had a Negro project, and an explanation if that was not directed at the ‘undesirables,’” said Bush. “So, I’m not accusing them of anything. I would just like an explanation for the practices that they have continued.”
 
Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a pro-life activist. In August 2007 she told a meeting of Priests for Life that abortionists “plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope.” 
 
“The great irony,” she said, “is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.” 


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Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a pro-life activist. In August 2007 she told a meeting of Priests for Life that abortionists “plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope.”

“The great irony,” she said, “is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”

And the black community continues to vote for the same people who want to destroy them.

1 posted on 10/25/2009 9:40:21 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 10/25/2009 9:40:50 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 10/25/2009 9:41:41 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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very sad for everyone in this nation.


4 posted on 10/25/2009 9:41:49 AM PDT by television is just wrong (one big ass mistake America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

5 posted on 10/25/2009 9:42:19 AM PDT by narses ("These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.")
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Pretty sure this was what planned parenthood had in mind all along...


6 posted on 10/25/2009 9:42:24 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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Where’s AIDS....in the ralm of things


7 posted on 10/25/2009 9:47:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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It’s very sad that our nation has come to this. What ever happened to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? While we fight to end these murders our hope can remain in God and that these souls are in Heaven.


8 posted on 10/25/2009 9:48:00 AM PDT by I Hate Obama ("Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther Party." -Forest Gump)
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To: wagglebee

Margaret Sanger would be proud.


9 posted on 10/25/2009 9:48:46 AM PDT by umgud (I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
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As is her great admirer, Hillary Clinton.


10 posted on 10/25/2009 9:50:14 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: wagglebee

Pray to end abortion!!!! 40 Days for Life, currently in progress across America.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370549/posts


11 posted on 10/25/2009 9:52:49 AM PDT by Faith
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Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities

Excuse me. But the author, and I presume most now-concerned people of color on the liberal side, implies by this comment that the abortees now termed 'blacks' instead of tissue, are somehow now humans with souls? No, this can't be true can it? Can it be that they are only now coming to the realization that this heretofore only just - tissue is actually a life with a 'soul'?

I guess it's just a matter of perspective of race and which is now suddenly worth saving more than others because they now see a black man can become President?

12 posted on 10/25/2009 9:54:01 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Deaths in America per year
1,400,000 people die from abortion
650,000 people die of heart disease
560,000 people die of cancer
143,000 people die of stroke
75,000 people die of diabetes

Another perspective:
18,000 - Deaths by death penalty in American history (all the way back to the 1600s).
1,315,000 - Deaths in all American wars combined.
50,000,000 - Deaths by abortion since Roe v Wade


13 posted on 10/25/2009 9:54:50 AM PDT by Faith
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Who is killing all the black babies in America?

14 posted on 10/25/2009 9:56:04 AM PDT by Deepest End ("It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine)
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To: wagglebee

more blacks killing blacks


15 posted on 10/25/2009 9:56:11 AM PDT by wardaddy
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The statistics I’ve found indicate that Blacks account for 51% of new AIDS cases.

There were just under 15,000 total AIDS deaths nationwide in 2007.

So, if we say that 7,500 Blacks die from AIDS each year, that is still FAR LESS than the number of Black who are killed in abortuaries EACH WEEK.


16 posted on 10/25/2009 9:56:22 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC.

Shocking......those poor little babies.

17 posted on 10/25/2009 9:57:09 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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Excuse me. But the author, and I presume most now-concerned people of color on the liberal side, implies by this comment that the abortees now termed 'blacks' instead of tissue, are somehow now humans with souls?

However, the author works for CNS News which is a conservative news service.

18 posted on 10/25/2009 10:00:13 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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Can it be that they are only now coming to the realization that this heretofore only just - tissue is actually a life with a 'soul'?

I believe they've known it in their hearts all along. Why else the standard statement that they want abortion to be 'rare'? If it's not a baby, why the need for rarity?

19 posted on 10/25/2009 10:03:44 AM PDT by RightField (A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.)
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That doesn't matter to me. It was about what the CDC said. As far as I'm concerned, the CDC is a liberal arm of the government, even when it was under GWB. They have no business studying anything that doesn't have to do with 'disease'. Yet, they always seem to propagate some study or other that has to do with 'wife beathing' 'unhealthy guns in the home', 'bad junk food nutrition' and now, 'black abortion'. These are all things of choice, not disease. These are also things that have to do with 'behavior', not biological impetus.

To parse the MURDER of untold humans with souls down to a now-terrible problem relating to how 'blacks' are affect is morally bankrupt and disgusting. These people are just EVIL, plain and simple.

20 posted on 10/25/2009 10:04:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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