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On Tuesday, June 24, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) commemorates the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which enables Congress and state legislatures to protect unborn children. As we bear witness to the sacredness of human life, CURE is releasing our latest report on “The Impact of Abortion on the Black Community.” (PDF)
CURE President Donald T. Eason, a co-author of the report, celebrates this Dobbs anniversary with a call for action. “After nearly five decades of courts imposing abortion on America and blocking numerous efforts to protect the sanctity of human life, policymakers at all levels of government now have the opportunity and obligation to do everything in their power to protect human life, inside and outside the womb,” Eason says.
Sadly, black women obtain abortions at a disproportionately high rate. According to the United States Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Abortion Surveillance Report, black women made up 14 percent of the childbearing population in 2022 yet obtained 39.5 percent of reported abortions.
It is no accident that abortion is so prevalent within the black community. Margaret Sanger, a founder of the American birth control movement and the organization that is now known as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), was a leader in promoting control of the birth rate among blacks and others she considered undesirable.
In an opinion article published in The New York Times on April 17, 2021, PPFA Director Alexis McGill Johnson acknowledged Planned Parenthood’s racist roots and eugenic mission. She said Sanger had cultivated connections with the Ku Klux Klan and endorsed a Supreme Court decision that “allowed states to sterilize people deemed ‘unfit’ without their consent and sometimes without their knowledge – a ruling that led to the sterilization of tens of thousands of people in the 20th century.”
Increasingly, abortion proponents have focused on making abortion pills more widely available. Under the Biden Administration in 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed patients to obtain the drug mifepristone, without an in-person visit. Many women are receiving these pills through the mail and aborting at home with no medical supervision.
“The Impact of Abortion on the Black Community” points out that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has called for “a complete review” of new data to accurately reflect the adverse effects of the abortion drug mifepristone. The report notes provisions in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that block Medicaid funding to large abortion providers and prevent federal payments for health insurance plans that cover elective abortions.
