Is the Womb the Most Dangerous Place for African-Americans?

In America, according to the Center for Disease Control CDC), over 850,000 million abortions are performed each year. Out of that number, African-American women are responsible for about 57%. That is over 450,000 abortions a year.

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That sad statistic recently prompted an anti-abortion group to mount a billboard in New York City that declared that the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb. It caused a great uproar.

The CDC stated that the reasons women choose abortion vary. In their 2000 study, the CDC discovered that 25.5% choose to abort because they want to postpone childbirth; 21.1% cannot afford a baby; 14.1% are in problematic relationships or the male do not want a baby; 12.2 % are either too young or their parents objected; 10.87 believe that having a child will disrupt their education or job; and another 8% do not want any more children. Others are risk to fetal health and maternal health.

These are the same reason why women, black, white, Latino, Indian, etc choose abortion.

In African-American communities, social-political factors like poverty, lack of education, lack of healthcare, high spousal abuse, etch exacerbate these reasons. It is therefore expected that the rate by which African-American women choose abortion would be higher.

Over the years, it has been preached and preached that the only way to avoid poverty is to get an education and get married before having a baby. African-American women have accepted the message. They are doing everything to live by it.

In essence, the attack on African American women and their wombs seem unfair to me. On a human level, the real reason why they are getting pregnant in the first place is that some men do not want to jerk off in the toilet. And these men, when they get a chance with an African-American woman, they do not want to use a condom.

It seems to me that the fault of the African-American woman is to allow their men to play ball without a boot. African-American women should simply wedge a campaign of no boot, no ball.

Those conservatives alarmed at the abortion rate should begin a campaign that provides support to those women who have babies they were not ready for. But instead, they are at the helm of the groups fighting to abolish all forms of welfare supports in the United States.

Those who do not care what happens to a baby when they are born have no moral authority to complain about what happens to the fetus when it is in the womb.