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Report: Abortions Target Blacks, Repeat Abortions High, 10% Use RU 486
Life News ^ | 11/23/07 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 11/23/2007 9:42:44 AM PST by wagglebee

Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) -- The new report the Centers for Disease Control released this week about annual abortion figures in the United States shows abortions continue to target black women moreso than other ethnic groups. The 2004 report also shows about 10 percent of all abortions in the United States are done with the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug.

The CDC shows a majority of women who get abortions are white (53 percent) compared with 35 percent done on African-Americans, 8 percent on women of other ethnic backgrounds and the race of the woman was unknown in four percent of the cases.

However, the abortion ratio for black women (472 per 1,000 live births) was 2.9 times higher than the ratio for white women (161 per 1,000).

Examined another way, nearly half of all pregnancies among black women end in abortion while just 16 percent of pregnancies among while women end in abortion.

The abortion rate for black women (28 per 1,000 women) was 2.8 times the rate for white women (10 per 1,000) -- meaning a much greater percentage

Those statistics continue to worry pro-life leaders in the African-American community.

On 27 reporting areas adequately obtained abortion stats by ethnicity and those areas showed that 19 percent of the women getting abortions were Hispanic -- with a low of 0.6% in Mississippi to a high of 50% in New Mexico.

For Hispanic women in these reporting areas, the abortion ratio was 211 per 1,000 live births, and the abortion rate was 26 per 1,000 women. However, only 46% of Hispanic women in the United States resided in these reporting areas.

About half of all abortions are done on women 25 years and older and half done on college-aged women and teenagers.

The CDC statistics continue to show that women involved in a marital relationship are less likely to have abortions -- perhaps because they are not as concerned about the financial implications of having a child as unmarried women.

For women whose marital status was adequately reported (41 reporting areas), 80% of women who obtained abortions were known to be unmarried. The abortion ratio for unmarried women (510 per 1,000 live births) was 8.4 times that for married women (61 per 1,000).

Repeat abortions continue to be a problem in the United States, showing a sizable percentage of women getting abortions are using it as a method of birth control.

The data also showed that 46 percent of women getting abortions in 2004 had at least one prior abortion and 19 percent of the women getting abortions had at least two or more prior abortions.

Maryland, Massachusetts and New York had the highest repeat abortion rates and nearly 70 percent of the abortions done in Maryland were repeat abortions -- by far the highest in the nation.

Looking at the method of abortion, 87% of abortions were known to have been performed by curettage (which includes dilatation and evacuation [D&E]) and 10% of all abortions include the mifepristone abortion pill approved by the Clinton administration in September 2000.

States with the highest percentage of abortions by RU 486 include Alaska, Arizona, Iowa, South Carolina, Utah and Vermont -- with all having more than 20% of their abortions done with dangerous drugs.

Most of the abortions done in the U.S. came when the baby was eight weeks along or younger (61%) and the vast majority (87%) were done at 12 weeks into the pregnancy or younger.

About five percent of the reported abortions were known to have occurred after 15 weeks' gestation: 3.7% at 16--20 weeks and 1.3% at 21 weeks or longer.

In 2004, the highest number of reported legal induced abortions occurred in Florida (91,710), NYC (91,673), and Texas (74,801); while the lowest occurred in Idaho (963) and South Dakota (814).

Wyoming and New Hampshire may have had lower figures but their abortion totals are not adequately reported to the CDC.

About 92 percent of women obtained the abortion in their home state while almost 8 percent went out of state for the abortion.

The District of Columbia (52.6%), Kansas (48.2%), North Dakota (37.5 percent) and Delaware (28.9%) had the highest percentage of out-of-state abortions. Other than Alaska and Hawaii, Michigan, Mississippi, and Arizona had the lowest totals.


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To: wagglebee

Wasn’t Margaret Sanger an advocate of reducing breeding by “inferior” classes?


21 posted on 11/23/2007 10:43:51 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

Yes.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929667/posts?page=14#14


22 posted on 11/23/2007 10:46:37 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Antoninus

“Do the research, brother.”

I did, unlike the people who spout that nonsense. When I first heard about Margaret Sanger and a supposed “black genocide” I decided to do some research on this evil woman. Where better to start than her own published writings.

What I found was a regular, garden variety liberal who thought she could fight poverty in poor ethnic and immigrant communities through birth control and abortion.

She never advocated or supported any kind of genocide and that is a fact. Tanya L. Green at “blackgenocide.org” took one sentence she wrote out of context and used it to build a lie to be perpetuated among gullible pro-lifers.

I did my research bud and I took it much farther than reading what propagandists write.


23 posted on 11/23/2007 11:09:13 AM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Antoninus; L98Fiero; FormerACLUmember
Here's a link to the referenced Tanya Green. I'm not sure how hysterical her writing is, it looks fairly well documented. I wonder if there is anything available from Green's detractors where one can go to read a competing compilation of Sanger's advocacy.
26 posted on 11/23/2007 11:48:17 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: wagglebee

So the highest repeat abortion rates are in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York. That’s interesting, because we’re constantly told that liberal sex education decreases the need for abortion. Yet, three states with notoriously liberal sex education not only have high abortion rates, but the women having them end up with yet another unintended pregnancy and show up a second (or third or...) time at the abortion mill.


27 posted on 11/23/2007 11:58:18 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: L98Fiero; Antoninus; FormerACLUmember
"[Sanger was} a regular, garden variety liberal."

I admire your thoroughness in doing the reading and research. I do suggest, though, that many "regular, garden variety liberals" thoroughly believe in suppressing poverty by suppressing the fertility of the poor. This is not this-generation genocide, but it is next-generation genocide to the extent that it succeeds in minimizing procreation in disfavored sectors of society. When you-know-who did that to the Slavs --- not requiring abortion, but 'encouraging' abortion in a targeted manner---- it was later defined as a crime against humanity.

Very fine article about that here, by Dr. Tessa Chelouche, Chelouche a physician with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.

28 posted on 11/23/2007 12:03:55 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (God bless the child who's got his own.)
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To: wagglebee
Hey, the libs are simply "liberating" People of Color from The Man, the racist bigot who doesn't want them to exterminate themselves! What are you, a Klucker???

Stick it to Whitey! Kill your kids!

That'll show David Duke!!![/Sarcasm]

29 posted on 11/23/2007 12:09:06 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Lo' Ya`aqov ye'amer `od shimkha ki-'im Yisra'el; ki-sariyta `im-'Eloqim ve`im-'anashim vatukhal.)
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To: L98Fiero

While driving a carbon-guzzling SUV...


30 posted on 11/23/2007 12:16:31 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: L98Fiero; Antoninus; MHGinTN; Mr. Silverback; narses; 8mmMauser; Coleus; Diago
I did my research bud and I took it much farther than reading what propagandists write.

The only "propagandist" that anyone is quoting is Margaret Sanger, and she said this in a 1939 letter:

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

Now, I realize that you and the other Darwinists would prefer that the racism of Darwinism-Eugenics be overlooked, but the facts speak for themselves.

31 posted on 11/23/2007 12:52:43 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: L98Fiero

“Keep perpetuating the lie, brother”

It’s not a lie... that’s exactly why it was founded.


32 posted on 11/23/2007 2:04:40 PM PST by babygene (Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; L98Fiero
Bob Dornan said that he once had a discussion with Nancy Pelosi about abortion. Pelosi responded to his arguments with, "C'mon, Bob, what would you do if your daughter came home pregnant by a black guy?"

Dornan was too shocked by her blatant racism to answer.

Plenty of "garden variety liberals" are racist bigots to the core.

33 posted on 11/23/2007 2:12:57 PM PST by Campion
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34 posted on 11/23/2007 2:24:17 PM PST by narses (...the spirit of Trent is abroad once more.)
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To: wagglebee
Abortions Target Blacks, >>

it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out that most abortion mills and planned parenthood shops are in the inner city or urban areas. but then again, the blacks and democrats don’t know or just don’t want to know who the racists practicing eugenics are targeting.

35 posted on 11/23/2007 2:27:02 PM PST by Coleus (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: Coleus

Of course some of the Darwinists here would prefer that we ignore the racist agenda of the eugenicists.


36 posted on 11/23/2007 2:30:17 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Shhhh, don’t confuse that uninformed poster with actual FACTS.


37 posted on 11/23/2007 2:32:45 PM PST by piytar
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To: piytar

Facts always seem to annoy the FRiberals.


38 posted on 11/23/2007 2:36:50 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Crack/466 cocktail....... on DC Street corners


39 posted on 11/23/2007 2:42:47 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: L98Fiero

“What I found was a regular, garden variety liberal...”

Scrath many if not most “regular, garden variety” liberals, and you will find a racist belief system that they often do not even realize they hold themselves. In fact, much of their self-professed tolerant ideas and policies have a very racist underpinning, namely a belief that blacks really are inferior and cannot compete on their own without government “help.” (In some cases the racism is more apparent in the form of “keep them down and beholden,” but I’m not talking about that here).


40 posted on 11/23/2007 2:55:30 PM PST by piytar
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