Abortion Statistics by Race
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The differential between the abortion ratio for black women and that
for white women has increased from 2.0 in 1989 (the first year for
which black and other races were reported separately) to 3.0 in 2000. In addition, the abortion rate for black women has been
approximately 3 times as high as that for white women (range:
2.6--3.1) since 1991 (the first year for which rates by race were
published). These rates by race are substantially lower than
rates previously published by NCHS and suggest that the reporting
areas for the 2000 report might not be fully representative of the
U.S. black female population of reproductive age. Census Bureau
estimates and birth certificate data indicate that the large majority
of Hispanic women report themselves as white. Therefore, data for
some white women actually represent Hispanic women, which distorts the numbers.
In 2000, 41 states, the District of Columbia and New York City
reported Hispanic ethnicity of women who obtained abortions. Because
of concerns regarding the completeness of such data (>15% unknown
data) in certain states, in 2000, data from only 29 states, the
District of Columbia, and New York City were used to determine the
number and percentage of abortions obtained by women of Hispanic
ethnicity. These geographic areas represent approximately 46% of all
reproductive-age Hispanic women in the United States for 2000 and
approximately 47% of U.S. Hispanic births. Thus, the number of
Hispanic women who obtain abortions is underestimated, and the number,
ratio, and rate of abortions for Hispanic women in this report are not
generalizable to the overall Hispanic population in the United States.
The abortion ratio for Hispanic women (225 per 1,000 live births) was
lower than the ratio for non-Hispanic women (233 per 1,000 live
births). This differs from the findings for abortions performed in
1999 and reflects a return to the previously observed pattern among
Hispanic women of slightly lower or similar ratios to those for
non-Hispanic women. As in the past, the abortion rate per 1,000
Hispanic women was higher than the rate per 1,000 non-Hispanic
women. This finding is consistent with another study but
differs substantially from abortion rates by ethnicity that were
published previously by NCHS. The differences are likely due to
the method used to account for under reporting of abortions by
adjusting CDC tabulations to national totals. This finding also
suggests that the reporting areas for the 2000 report are not fully
representative of the U.S. Hispanic female population of reproductive
age. Race-specific and ethnicity-specific differences in legal induced
abortion ratios and rates might reflect differences among groups in
factors such as socioeconomic status, access to family planning and
contraceptive services,
contraceptive use, and incidence of unintended pregnancies.
Non-Hispanic Whites who make up 68% of the United States population are responsible for only 40% of the abortions (unfortunately the statistics don't indicate how many of these are due to rape, adultery, mental or physical defects, or the result of pregnancy from interracial relationships, which undoubtedly many are).
Blacks, on the other hand, make up 12.4% of the United States population, but are responsible for 32% of all
abortions; while Hispanics make up 14.8% of the population are responsible for 20% of all abortions.
According to the most recent census data available for race (2000), black women make up 12.3% of the female population in America, but accounted for 36.4% of all U.S. abortions in 20063- that according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The Guttmacher Institute (AGI) puts the percentage of black abortions at 30% of the U.S. total4. Their most recent numbers are from 2008. Similarly, AGI tells us that Hispanic women5 accounted for 25% of all U.S. abortions in 20086, though they made up just 12.5% of the female population in 20007. The CDC lists the percentage of Hispanic abortions in 2006 at 20.1%8. Compare those numbers to non-Hispanic, white women, who make up 69% of America's female population9, but account for
only 36% of all U.S. abortions10 (36.1% according to the CDC11).
Every day in America, an average of 3,315 human beings lose their lives to abortion12. Based on the percentages above, between 666-829 of those babies are Hispanic, between 1,193-1,197 are white, and between 995-1,207 are black. Not only are black children being killed at a far greater percentage than white children, it's possible they're being killed in greater numbers, period. Is that not shocking?! Though the white population in the U.S. outnumbers the black population five to one, abortion may well be killing more black children each day than white children. John Piper, a white pastor with a heart for racial justice, remarks on the disparity of abortion this way:
The de facto effect (I don’t call it the main cause, but net effect) of putting abortion clinics in the urban centers is that the abortion of Hispanic and Black babies is more than double their percentage of the population. Every day 1,300 black babies are killed in America. Seven hundred Hispanic babies die every day from abortion. Call this what you will—when the slaughter has an ethnic face and the percentages are double that of the white community and the killers are almost all white, something is going on here that ought to make the lovers of racial equality and racial harmony wake up
Ms. King refers to abortion as genocide. Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr. goes further and refers to black genocide. In 2002, he birthed a website by and for African Americans called Blackgenocide.org. The lament at that website reads like this (referring to statistics in 2002):
[The] incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 10 million abortions [probably up to 13 million now]. Michael Novak . . . calculated, “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 31 million, the missing 10 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America's Black community would now number 41 million persons. It would be 35 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.”
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Revelation 1:6-10
6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
9 I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,