{"id":284538,"date":"2023-02-01T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=284538"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T22:55:52","slug":"cdc-report-communities-color-impacted-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cdc-report-communities-color-impacted-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC report shows communities of color still disproportionately impacted by abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Communities of color were again disproportionately affected by abortion in 2020, according to the most recently published national data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While recent pro-abortion messaging insists that abortion is \u201creproductive justice\u201d for minorities, abortion is historically\u00a0tethered to eugenics<\/a>, with birth control and abortion used to\u00a0target<\/a>\u00a0communities of color for generations.<\/p>\n

Advocates of abortion often\u00a0paint<\/a>\u00a0the killing of preborn minority children as a solution to poverty, or as a stepping stone out of a life of poverty. But the facts simply do not bear this out.\u00a0This eugenic philosophy of abortion has little to do with helping communities of color\u00a0<\/a>and instead serves only to\u00a0eliminate<\/em>\u00a0them.<\/p>\n

TOTAL ABORTIONS<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The most recently published data<\/a> on abortion from the CDC is for the year 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The CDC collects information provided by states, but due to a broad variety of state requirements on abortions and no federal reporting requirements, the CDC fails to report complete abortion totals.\u00a0For 2020<\/a>, the CDC reported<\/a>\u00a0620,327 legally induced abortions from a total of 49 reporting areas, which voluntarily provided aggregate abortion data to the agency. According to the\u00a0CDC\u2019s data<\/a>, abortion numbers decreased slightly in 2020 while abortion pill use has risen a whopping 154% since 2011. (Read more\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

BLACK AND HISPANIC WOMEN ACCOUNTED FOR DISPROPORTIONATE PERCENTAGE OF ABORTIONS<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In 2020, the percentage of abortions among white women fell over two percent, from 33.4% in\u00a02019<\/a>\u00a0to 32.7% in 2020<\/a>, while the percent of abortions among Black women increased<\/em>, from 38.4% of all reported abortions in\u00a02019<\/a>\u00a0to 39.2% in 2020<\/a> \u2014\u00a0the highest percentage reported in several years. The percentage of abortions among Hispanic women remained relatively the same, from\u00a021% of all reported abortions in\u00a02019<\/a> to 21.1% in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Population data\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) was not recorded for 2020, therefore Live Action News used population data published<\/a> by the U.S. Census Bureau, which reveals that Black and Hispanic women accounted for a disproportionate percentage of abortions in 2020.<\/p>\n