Scientists’ Failure to Report Abortions as ‘Cause of Death’ Masks Massive Racial Disparities

Scientists’ Failure to Report Abortions as ‘Cause of Death’ Masks Massive Racial Disparities, by Susan Berry.

Using data from 2009 of pregnancy outcomes — including estimates of induced abortions as collected by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and deaths due to all causes [where abortion is included as a death] — the researchers report that induced abortions represented only 16.4 percent of NHW [non-Hispanic white] deaths, but 61.1 percent of NHB [non-hispanic black] deaths and 64.0 percent of Hispanic deaths. …

The authors find that for Hispanic and blacks, abortion deaths were 79.3 and 57.5 times the number of homicide deaths, respectively and, for whites, abortion deaths were 12.4 times the number of suicide deaths.