IF ONLY THOSE MINORITY RATES WERE RISING INSTEAD OF FALLING...:

Abortion rate is down, but report cites racial disparity : The decline has been far more dramatic for whites than for blacks and Latinas. (Mary Engel, 9/23/08, Los Angeles Times)

African American women had high rates of unintended pregnancy, 70% compared with 49% across all racial and ethnic groups. About half of unintended pregnancies in the U.S. end in abortion, the report said.

Latinas had higher pregnancy rates and higher birthrates than whites.

Abortion rates are falling for blacks and Latinas but far less than for whites. [...]

[D]ay Gardner, founder and president of the National Black Pro-Life Union in Washington, disagreed. She blamed the high rates on the number of inner-city clinics that performed abortions.

"It doesn't have as much to do with poverty as that the abortion facilities are there, ingrained in the neighborhoods," she said. "We as a community don't talk about this. . . . This is a silent killer among us."

The report also found that abortion rates for teenagers dropped from 33% in 1974 to 17% in 2004.

...it would be Planned Parenthood's perfect world.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 23, 2008 7:12 AM