Why Won’t the Left Talk About Racial Disparities in Abortion?

 I’ve actually heard people on the Left say, “one reason crime started going down in the 1990’s and 2000’s is because of Roe vs. Wade.  You see when we allowed black women to terminate their pregnancies then they birthed less black males.  And black males are responsible for an overwhelming amount of violent crime...so abortion has ended up saving us billions in police, lawyer and prison time.”

Killing people before they have a chance to commit a crime is more than heinous.  If you want to play that game, maybe we killed a baby who would have been Elon Musk on steroids and would have already delivered us electric cars that run on watch batteries?

Also remember that Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood and she was serious about making sure blacks could terminate pregnancies so as to control the black population.  She was a white supremacist from the beginning.  So yes, this entire story has The Father of Lies woven through the entire thing.

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When it comes to abortion, however, left-wing concern seems to stop at making the procedure safe and legal, even while black-white disparities have not only persisted but widened. A 2020 paper by public-health scholar James Studnicki and two co-authors cites data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to note that the black abortion rate is nearly four times higher than the white rate: “Between 2007-2016, the Black rate declined 29% and the White rate declined 33%—meaning that the racial disparity actually increased rather than decreased.” Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurrence in a 2019 abortion case observed that “there are areas of New York City in which black children are more likely to be aborted than they are to be born alive—and are up to eight times more likely to be aborted than white children in the same area.”

Mr. Studnicki and his co-authors likewise conclude that abortion’s impact on the size of the black population is pronounced. Using Pennsylvania as a case study, they note that in 2018 there were about 61,000 premature white deaths from all causes and 21,000 premature black deaths. “Abortions were 23.9% of the White deaths and 62.7% of the Black deaths.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-wont-the-left-talk-about-racial-disparities-in-abortion-low-income-marriage-pro-choice-11652218772