Abortion and Minority Communities

In Ohio, African Americans make up only 12% of the total population yet account for 41.7% of all performed abortions.

-2008 Ohio Department of Health and Human Services Abortion Report

“According to the 2000 Census, Hispanics have replaced African-Americans as the largest minority group in the U.S. The loss of over 14.5 African-American children through abortion has played a significant part in this population decline. The number has increased by over 1.5 million abortions between 2004-2006.”

– US Census Bureau, 2000 Census

More African American babies have been killed by abortion during the past 30 years than the total number of African American deaths from all other causes combined since 1973.

-Based on stats from US Center for Disease Control National Vital Statistics Reports

While representing only a quarter of the U.S. population of women of child-bearing age, African-American and Hispanic American women account for over half of all abortions performed each year in the United States.

 - National Right to Life Committee

“Abortion services have been deliberately and systematically targeted towards African Americans. A disproportionate number of the nation’s abortion clinics and located in minority neighborhoods.”

– The Destiny of the Black Race, Carlisle Peterson; Planned Parenthood 1992 Service Report