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EYE ON POLITICS: Blacks' abortions tragically ignored
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| Last Edited | None Entered Sep 13, 2004 07:50am |
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| News Date | Monday, September 13, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | One of the familiar features of a political rally in any urban area in Michigan is the recitation of ills and injustice that befall many black citizens.
They are, of course, legion. Dysfunctional schools. High crime. Low employment. More African-American men in prison than college.
But there is another that almost never gets mentioned by politicians black or white. Some are even reluctant to call it an ill or an injustice. But it is hard to think of it as anything other than a tragedy.
It is the shockingly high number of African-American women who have had abortions. In Michigan last year alone, black women had 10,911 abortions. (For the sake of comparison, 1,283 Michiganders of all ages and races died in traffic accidents in 2003).
The numbers are highlighted in a new report produced by Right to Life of Michigan from state Department of Community Health data, which is broken down by race for the first time this year.
The report shows that African-American women of childbearing age were three times as likely to have had an abortion last year as were women of other races. Black women, who comprise less than 16 percent of the female population in Michigan, obtained more than 38 percent of all abortions.
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