Abortion Kills More Black Americans Than the Seven Leading Causes of Death Combined, Says CDC Data

CNS News ^ | 10/23/09 | Karen Schuberg

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(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.

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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.”

[miliantnutcase]

Pretty sure this was what planned parenthood had in mind all along...

[Sacajaweau]

Where’s AIDS....in the ralm of things

[I Hate Obama]

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.

[umgud]

Margaret Sanger would be proud.

[onedoug]

As is her great admirer, Hillary Clinton.

[Faith]

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

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

[Gaffer]

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?

[Faith]

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

[Deepest End]

Who is killing all the black babies in America?

[wardaddy]

more blacks killing blacks

[wagglebee]

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.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

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.

[wagglebee]

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.

[RightField]

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?

[Gaffer]

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.

[ArchAngel1983]

”Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined…”

I’m sure this study will be labeled “Racist” by the usual gang of hustlers. How dare they report the truth without the obligatory anti-white spin (pounding little fists against the table in display of self-righteous indignation).

[tiki]

And they accuse pro-life conservatives of being racist.

[Tanniker Smith]

Abortion also kills more females than males, so I guess it is a Women’s issue.

[DoughtyOne]

Blacks think it’s the pro-life Republicans who want to keep them down on the plantation. When these folks finally wake up, they are going to be so angry at the Democrat party.

Let’s recall, the Democrats are the ones who controlled the South until Kennedy came along. Shortly thereafter that block was cracked by Nixon.

So today the same party that tried to prevent Black youth from entering White high schools, tries to keep a program in place that reduces the black population by 200,000 per year.

And 90% of Blacks vote for this party’s candidates.

Talk about a self-defeatist group of people...

The Democrats offer them welfare, and we try to make sure they have a job.

And Blacks think Conservatives are evil. Just sad...

[Seven plus One]

"We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten that idea out if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

Margaret Sanger to dr. C.J. Gamble,12-10-1939

It was one of their original missions. Google Margaret Sanger+Negro Project, eugenics, black genocide, etc, and discover a lot. Martin Luther King's acceptance of the Margaret Sanger award was a propaganda coup if there ever was one. Imagine William Kaufman accepting a Heinrich Himmler award, and the results thereof. Real 'hope and change' means putting the evils of the Twentieth Century away for good, not institutionalizing them.

[Slyfox]

Susan Cohen, director of government affairs at the Guttmacher Institute, said that black women are not inordinately targeted.

Stemming the dark-skinned tide was at the heart of Margaret Sanger's abortion plan. Ms. Cohen, black women have ALWAYS been ordinately targeted.

[FrogMom]

Ping to our shared sorrow.

[red irish]

The democrats have made blacks modern day slaves.

[17th Miss Regt]

The democrats have made blacks modern day slaves.

And they are conditioning the blacks to be happy about their condition of abject slavery.

[RoadTest]

It looks to me like the party that is always accusing conservatives of being “racist” is practicing genocide on the black race. I believe that’s called hypocricy.

[Salvation]

This is a little out of date, but still applicable.

[miliantnutcase]

There it is!

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For a second, I thought this said “CBS News”. My heart skipped a beat, and I almost fell out of my chair. I thought that someone there had come to his/her senses and realized the truth. But alas, they have not.

As far as this article, it’s very very sad, yet the black community to a large degree brands the Republicans as the racists.