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"Planned Parenthood disavows Margaret Sanger"

Colt

Well-Known Member
Even if we took these figures at face value, which we absolutely should not ( Fact check: Gov. Bryant's claims about abortion numbers, black women | Mississippi Today ) abortion across the board has declined for over 25 years. So saying that in 2019, black abortion was higher than black deaths because of a 48 year mean is simply untrue.

But, more importantly, your silence on my other post is deafening.

In no way would cutting off affordable birth control, screening, family planning and abortion help the black community.
Disparities in Abortion Rates: A Public Health Approach
Mortality rates for non-Hispanic blacks have been improving and abortions have been declining for the same demographic. But the 19,000,000 figure remains the same and not all states report their abortion stats. I've seen some figures that put annual black abortions in the 200,000+, significantly lower than my average......but the 19,000,000 still have to go somewhere between 1973 and 2021.
 

ADigitalArtist

Veteran Member
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Premium Member
Mortality rates for non-Hispanic blacks have been improving and abortions have been declining for the same demographic. But the 19,000,000 figure remains the same and not all states report their abortion stats. I've seen some figures that put annual black abortions in the 200,000+, significantly lower than my average......but the 19,000,000 still have to go somewhere between 1973 and 2021.
Even if the mortality rate was improving at the same rate that abortions were declining (it's not), comparing a single year statistic to a multi generational mean is just bad statistics.

Now answer the rest of the post.
 

ADigitalArtist

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For anyone who is interested in why these conspiracy theories are foundationless and hurt the black community, more from the link above:
Women of lower socioeconomic status and women of color in the United States have higher rates of abortion than women of higher socioeconomic status and White women. Opponents of abortion use these statistics to argue that abortion providers are exploiting women of color and low socioeconomic status, and thus, regulations are needed to protect women. This argument ignores the underlying causes of the disparities. As efforts to restrict abortion will have no effect on these underlying factors, and instead will only result in more women experiencing later abortions or having an unintended childbirth, they are likely to result in worsening health disparities.
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Abortion rights opponents point to racial/ethnic differences in abortion rates as evidence of racism and coercion among those who support the right to obtain abortions.3,4 Not only do these messages explicitly blame those providing abortion for targeting communities of color, they also assign guilt to women of color who decide to have abortions by implying that they are falling victim to a racist conspiracy. Differences in abortion rates by income are also seen as evidence of exploitation by abortion providers, who are claimed to be aggressively profiting from public funding of abortion for low-income women.5 Although there is no evidence of racial targeting6 or routine profiteering by abortion providers, from the perspective of those who espouse these views, the problem of disparities in abortion rates can only be solved by limiting access to and utilization of abortion services.

Motivated by a concern that this politicized perspective on disparities in abortion rates fails to consider their actual underlying causes, and thus will not ultimately lead to meaningful policy or programmatic outcomes, we review what is known about the origins of disparities in abortion rates by both race/ethnicity and SES. We discuss what can be done to address the root causes of these disparities in abortion, as well as to minimize their negative effects
Disparities in Abortion Rates: A Public Health Approach
 

Colt

Well-Known Member
Even if the mortality rate was improving at the same rate that abortions were declining (it's not), comparing a single year statistic to a multi generational mean is just bad statistics.

Now answer the rest of the post.
It would mean there were much higher averages of abortions on an annual basis. You don’t like that, I don’t care. Go do your own research if you can bear it.
 

tytlyf

Not Religious
After all, does anyone consider the Democratic Party
to be pro-slavery just because it was founded for that?
People in the conservative culture do. They're under this false narrative that the southern DemoKKKrat party were progressives somehow.
The southern DemoKKKrat party wouldn't have received the "pro-slavery" label if it weren't for it's conservative culture voting base.
The same people will think Republican Abraham Lincoln was a conservative at the time. So conservatives in the north and conservatives in the south.....go figure..
 
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