Rep. Manning: ‘To Prevent Unintended Pregnancies,’ Make ‘Contraception Readily Available’
(CNS News) -- When asked if abortion disproportionately targets black babies, House Representative Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) did not directly answer the question, but said “the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies is to make contraception readily available.”
At the U.S. Capitol on July 28, CNS News asked Manning, “CDC data indicate that abortion disproportionately targets black babies. Do you think Congress should do something to protect those babies?”
Manning replied, “That abortion disproportionately targets black babies? I think the real issue is that more women, a minority of women, find themselves in situations where they are less able to handle unintended pregnancies, and that’s the real issue.”
“I recently put a bill on the House floor and [it] passed the House,” she said. “It was to guarantee the right to contraception, and the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies is to make contraception readily available.”
“I was horrified that 197 Republicans voted against guaranteeing the right to contraception,” said Manning. “So, if you really care about abortion, making sure that people have access to a full range of contraceptive methods, that’s the best way to go.”
According to a report published by the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, babies of black mothers were aborted at dramatically higher rates than those carried by mothers of other races.
An article from CNS News referenced this report, “Abortion Surveillance– United States, 2019,” providing annual numbers from the CDC’s latest abortion data.
“Of the 47 responding jurisdictions, 29 states and the District of Columbia provided information that included the race and ethnicity of the women who underwent abortions in their jurisdictions in 2019,” reported CNS News. “In each of the 27 jurisdictions for which the CDC did publish the number of black women who underwent abortions, the percentage of total abortions in 2019 that were performed on black women exceeded what the Census Bureau reported was the percentage of the jurisdiction’s 2019 female population that was black.”
The CDC report stated, “Non-Hispanic White women had the lowest abortion rate (6.6 abortions per 1,000 women) and ratio (117 abortions per 1,000 live births) and non-Hispanic black woman had the highest rate (23.8 abortions per 1,000 women) and ratio (386 abortions per 1,000 live births). In 2019, compared with non-Hispanic White women, abortion rates and ratios were 3.6 and 3.3 times higher among non-Hispanic Black women.”
The CNS News article also referenced the words of Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Chair for the Center for the American Dream at the America First Policy Institute.
Alveda King told CNS News, “Abortion is one of the most violent, reprehensible, discriminatory crimes against humanity. There is overwhelming evidence that many abortions have been performed to reduce minority populations in America. Life is sacred. The reality of the American Dream must include everyone, from the womb to the tomb.”
CNS News reported that the CDC table details the number of abortions by race or ethnicity. This table shows that of 345, 929 abortions reported, “132,878 (or 38.4 percent) were performed on black mothers. Another 115,486 (or 33.4 percent) were performed on white mothers; 72,509 (or 21.0 percent) were performed on Hispanic mothers; and 24,056 (or 7.2 percent) were performed on mothers of another race/ethnicity.”
CDC results reported abortion rates are highest among black mothers.
In Mississippi alone, CDC data show that, “Of the 3,180 abortions occcuring in Mississippi (which includes those among both residents and out-of-state residents) for which race/ethnicity was reported, 2,352 (74%) were among non-Hispanic Black women.”
In 2019, from 33, 459 abortions reported in Georgia, “21,709 (64.9 percent) were performed on mothers of black race/ethnicity.”
In Alabama, 61.9 percent of abortions in this state were performed on black women; and in South Dakota, a state with a total female population of 437,902, and 11,718 black women (2.68 percent of the population), 11.1 percent of abortions were performed on black mothers.
“That was 4.14 times as great as the 2.68 percent of the population that was black.”
“Five other reporting jurisdictions (Kentucky, Minnesota, Michigan, Kansas, and West Virginia) reported abortions performed on black mothers at a percentage that was at least three times greater than the black percentage of the population,” CNS News reported.
Live Action founder and pro-life leader Lila Rose tweeted in February 2018, “Abortion activists want a woman of color to replace @CecileRichards to mask Planned Parenthood’s eugenic roots. There’s nothing that can hide how abortion disproportionately kills Blacks in America and how @PPact has been caught accepting money to target Black lives for abortion.”
“PPact was founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who created the Negro Project and believed in engineering the population to eliminate groups of people,” Rose further tweeted. “Sanger spoke to a woman’s branch of the KKK and supported forced sterilization, which has decimated the Black community.”
A 2015 policy report by the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, “The Effects of Abortion on the Black Community,” states, “Dis-proportionally, the leading consumer of the abortionist’s services is the African-American female. According to the 2011 Abortion Surveillance Report issued by the Centers for Disease Control, black women make up 14 percent of the childbearing population, yet obtained 36.2 percent of reported abortions.”
“Black women have the highest abortion ratio in the country, with 474 abortions per 1,00 live births,” states the report. “Percentages at these levels illustrate that more than 19 million black babies have been aborted since 1973.” (Emphasis added.)
The report went on to describe the abortion industry as fundamentally racist. “Historically, blacks have been the unwitting victims of a hidden racist agenda of those behind abortion and birth control organizations because they believed they were receiving a new civil right – choice,” reads the report.
“In fact, pro-abortion forces have created messaging that reinforces the notion of abortion as a civil right,” according to the report. “On Capitol Hill, these advocates urged their constituents to challenge the pro-life position by accusing them of making the alleged disparity in healthcare for black women worse. Perhaps unknowingly, these black legislators continually damage their political agenda because abortion is destroying their future constituency.”
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