Let’s Talk About the Black Abortion Rate
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What’s not in doubt is the outsize toll that abortion has taken on the black population post-Roe. In NYC, thousands more black babies are aborted than born alive each year, and the abortion rate among black mothers is more than three times higher than it is for white mothers.
According to a city Health Department report released in May, between 2012 and 2016 black mothers terminated 136,426 pregnancies and gave birth to 118,127 babies. By contrast, births far surpassed abortions among whites, Asians and Hispanics.
Nationally, black women terminate pregnancies at far higher rates than other women as well. In 2014, 36% of all abortions were performed on black women, who are just 13% of the female population.
The little discussed flip side of “reproductive freedom” is that abortion deaths far exceed those via cancer, violent crime, heart disease, AIDS and accidents. Racism, poverty and lack of access to health care are the typical explanations for these disparities.
But black women have much higher abortion rates even after you control for income. Moreover, other low-income ethnic minorities who experience discrimination, such as Hispanics, abort at rates much closer to white women than black women.
Among civil-rights activists today, talk of black self-destructive behavior is unpopular and minimal.
Jason Hill, a professor of philosophy at DePaul, noted the hypocrisy of groups like Black Lives Matter.
Hill: Black Lives Matter, who “want white people to esteem black lives and value the humanity of black people" won't "condemn and express moral outrage at those who maim and kill black children in the course of gang warfare, senseless street violence, and drive-by shootings”
Hill: “moral hysteria raised by a few incidents of police brutality in the face of this larger national tragedy is reckless hyperbole” and “hides from the nation a deep malaise at work in the psyche of some in the black community: "...
... it's a form of self-hatred that manifests itself in a homicidal rage not fundamentally against white people, but against other black people.”
When you combine the amount of black violent behavior directed at other blacks with the # of pregnancies terminated by black women, the rate at which blacks willingly end the lives of one another is chilling and far surpasses what goes on within other racial and ethnic groups
Racial disparities in abortion rates are no less disturbing than racial disparities in income, crime, poverty and school suspensions. Why are the people who want to lecture the rest of us about the value of black lives pretending otherwise?
