“ Black women may be having more abortions, but that doesn’t prove that they’re being coerced into having them. The only thing it proves is that black women are disproportionately having pregnancies they didn’t intend. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the top two reasons all women give for having abortions are that they don’t have the support of a partner and that they cannot afford to have a child. There’s no reason to believe that black women have abortions with a different motivation.
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As a black woman, I’d go even further than that to say that it could even be that black women are disproportionately having the view that abortion is their only option, or even that they don’t have the same access to pregnancy prevention (since even post-integration, most black people are poor, and not my-car-is-a-nova poor but i’m-not-buying-rubbers-instead-of-food-or-whatever poor or sex-was-forced-on-me-and-that’s-my-idea-of-normal poor).
OR that they have the same access to the actual prevention tool or are being prevented from using them, or think they don’t have the option, i.e. it could be an empowerment issue.
