{"id":235150,"date":"2020-11-28T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=235150"},"modified":"2020-11-26T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:20:27","slug":"professor-black-women-abortion-fullness-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/professor-black-women-abortion-fullness-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Law professor claims Black women need abortion to reach the ‘fullness of their lives’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The University of California-Berkeley’s Center for Right Wing Studies recently hosted a panel discussion<\/a> entitled, “Abortion Rights in 2020 and Beyond: Threats and Resistance.” During the discussion<\/a>, UC Berkeley law school professor Khiara Bridges<\/a> addressed why she believes Black women need abortion and why they make up a disproportionately high percentage of the women seeking abortions.<\/p>\n

“The undeniable reality is that Black people, Black people with the capacity for pregnancy, disproportionately turn to abortion services,” said Bridges. “That is, Black people are overrepresented among those who terminate pregnancies.” She offered Louisiana as an example. In 2018, Black women in Louisiana accounted for about 33% of the population but 61% of abortions in the state.<\/p>\n

While Black men and women make up about 13% of the population of the U.S., Black women have 38% of all abortions annually<\/a>. Bridges addressed these statistics head-on but through a pro-choice lens.<\/p>\n