{"id":235431,"date":"2020-12-04T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=235431"},"modified":"2020-12-14T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:30:38","slug":"live-black-births-outnumber-black-babies-aborted-new-york-city-first-time-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/live-black-births-outnumber-black-babies-aborted-new-york-city-first-time-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Black births outnumber Black abortions in NYC for first time in years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the first time in years, reported live births in 2017 from Black mothers outnumbered Black babies aborted in New York City (NYC). According to the most recent data from the Summary of Vital Statistics\u00a02017, The City of New York<\/a>,\u00a0published by the NYC Department of Health, abortions obtained by Black women (20,569) made up nearly 38% of all abortions (54,391) reported in the city. Although the number is certainly grim, it represents a slight decline<\/a>\u00a0in the number of Black abortions from the previous year.<\/p>\n

The news may be an indication that more Black mothers are choosing life in the Big Apple. New York City is where Planned Parenthood began with eugenicist Margaret Sanger at the helm. Sanger implemented the so-called \u201cNegro Project<\/a>\u201d to persuade the Black community to accept her eugenically-motivated birth control agenda, despite the fact that the Black community was\u00a0suspicious<\/a> that abortion and “family planning”\u00a0would be used as tools of Black genocide.<\/p>\n

Tragically, data has shown these suspicions to be correct. Abortions among Black women have remained disproportionately high across the nation. In New York City alone, abortions among Black women have outnumbered Black births<\/a> for years, as the chart below (showing 2000 to 2017) indicates.\u00a0But this trend may be coming to an end.<\/p>\n

NYC Data (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2017, for the first time in many years, Black births outnumbered abortions among Black women in NYC:<\/p>\n

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Black live births v Black babies aborted in NYC 2000 to 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

The data reveals that slightly over 46% of Black pregnancies in NYC (44,388) ended in abortion (20,569), while nearly 48% of Black pregnancies ended in a live birth (21,292). The 2017 data revealed additional good news, showing that in the past years, overall abortions have been decreasing among every major race or ethnicity recorded in NYC.<\/p>\n