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Abortion disproportionately targeted communities of color in 2019, 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 “reproductive justice” for minorities, abortion is actually tethered to eugenics, with birth control and abortion long used to target communities of color.
TOTAL ABORTIONS
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. The CDC’s latest report for 2019 showed that 629,898 abortions were voluntarily reported from 49 reporting areas (47 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City, excluding California, Maryland, and New Hampshire). The 2019 data revealed a slight increase of 1.7% in total abortions from the 619,591 recorded in 2018. However, 2019 numbers showed a decrease of 1.3% from the 638,169 abortions recorded in 2015, and nearly 18% lower than what was recorded in 2010 (765,751).
The most recent data on race published by Planned Parenthood’s former “special affiliate,” the Guttmacher Institute, is from 2014. “White patients accounted for 39% of abortion procedures in 2014, black patients for 28%, Hispanic patients for 25%, and patients of other races and ethnicities for 9%,” it states.
While abortion data from Guttmacher was updated in 2017, the organization has not released data by race for 2017, 2018, or 2019.
REPORTING AREAS
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New CDC data shows communities of color are disproportionately targeted for abortion
TOTAL ABORTIONS
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. The CDC’s latest report for 2019 showed that 629,898 abortions were voluntarily reported from 49 reporting areas (47 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City, excluding California, Maryland, and New Hampshire). The 2019 data revealed a slight increase of 1.7% in total abortions from the 619,591 recorded in 2018. However, 2019 numbers showed a decrease of 1.3% from the 638,169 abortions recorded in 2015, and nearly 18% lower than what was recorded in 2010 (765,751).
The most recent data on race published by Planned Parenthood’s former “special affiliate,” the Guttmacher Institute, is from 2014. “White patients accounted for 39% of abortion procedures in 2014, black patients for 28%, Hispanic patients for 25%, and patients of other races and ethnicities for 9%,” it states.
While abortion data from Guttmacher was updated in 2017, the organization has not released data by race for 2017, 2018, or 2019.
REPORTING AREAS
Continued below.
New CDC data shows communities of color are disproportionately targeted for abortion