Easy abortion access has created a ‘black apocalypse’By Dr. Alveda King
August 13, 2022
Recently, CNN ran a piece titled “Black women say they are invisible in abortion rights fight: ‘We are still forgotten within all of this.’”
The piece, which highlights the stories of five black women who had abortions, said the reversal of Roe v. Wade “stripped [many black women] of bodily autonomy” and “created another barrier to economic security and choosing the course of their future.” Widespread abortion access, it said, has “especially benefited black women who continue to fight for an equal place in the US.”
But how can abortion access benefit black females when it so starkly impacts black babies – half of them girls? Indeed, of the roughly 930,000 abortions performed in the United States each year, about 38 percent are performed on black women. In other words, there are about 353,000 black babies aborted every year, 968 every day, 40 every hour, and one every minute and a half. Overall, some 24 million black babies have been aborted since Roe v. Wade in 1973.
I call this an abortion apocalypse — each act the taking of an innocent human life.
Racial prejudice is nothing new to the abortion movement. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was one of the most vocal advocates for eugenics in America. In fact, she wrote in 1921 that eugenics was “the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.”
A century after Sanger’s words, we should ask ourselves how much has changed in the pro-abortion movement. Today, a heavily disproportionate number of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in or near minority neighborhoods.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/easy-abortion-access-has-created-a-black-apocalypse/
