MINORITY AMERICANS AND ABORTION
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Life Education and Resource Network,
from their resource manual.
Minority preborn children are being aborted at more than
twice the rate of White preborns (in 1988, 57.3 per 1000 women for
Nonwhites, compared to 21.2 per 1000 women for Whites).
Source: Abortion Factbook 1992 Edition, The Alan Guttmacher
Institute.
According to 1990 statistics minority women constituted
only about 26% of the female population (age 15-44) in the U.S., but they
underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
Dec. 18, 1992, Centers for Disease Control.
Minorities make up only 20.7% of the population in the
state of New Jersey, yet 55.8% of the abortions in this state took the lives
of minority babies. In Maryland 29% of the population is minority but 49.3%
of the abortions are minority.
Source: Computation of statistics from State Yellow
Book, 1993, and Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
Dec. 18, 1992, Centers for Disease Control.
In 1988, 38.9% of minority pregnancies ended in abortion
while only 25% of White pregnancies end in abortion. Source:
Abortion Factbook, 1992 Edition, The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The number of minority babies killed by abortion from
1973 to 1991 corresponded to approximately 21% of the total minority
population in 1991.
Source: Computation of statistics from U.S. Census
Bureau, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Dec. 18, 1992,
Centers for Disease Control; and Abortion Factbook, 1992
Edition, The Alan Guttmacher Institute.
According to a recent study African American and Hispanic
young men are less likely than white young men to suggest that their
pregnant girlfriends abort their babies.
Source: Family Planning Perspectives, Jan/Feb 1993.
In a 1990 Gallup poll 42.9% of the Hispanic respondents
and 39.8% of the Black respondents felt that the following statement best
described their feelings about abortion: Abortion is just as bad as killing
a person who has already been born; it is murder.
Source: Copyright 1993, Abortion and Moral Beliefs
Survey, Americans United for Life, 343 S. Dearborn St., Suite
1804, Chicago, IL 60604. Reprinted with permission.
The same poll asked the question, "At what point in the
pregnancy do you personally feel that the unborn child's right to be born
outweighs the woman's right to choose whether she wants to have a child - at
the moment of conception, at the moment she first feels movement inside her;
at the moment when the baby could survive on its own, outside the womb, or
at the moment of birth?" The responses were as follows:
1. At the moment of conception : Hispanic:57.6% Black: 45.5%
2. At the moment she first feels movement inside her: Hispanic: 20.2% Black:
19.0%
3. At the moment when the baby could survive on its own: Hispanic: 7.6%
Black: 11.8%
4. At the moment of birth: Hispanic: 8.6% Black: 7.6%
5. Can't say: Hispanic: 6.1% Black: 16.1%
Source: Copyright 1993, Abortion and Moral Beliefs
Survey, Americans United for Life, 343 S. Dearborn St., Suite
1804, Chicago, IL 60604. Reprinted with permission.
