Easy abortion access has created a ‘black apocalypse’

Recently, CNN ran a piece titled “Black women say they are invisible in abortion rights fight: ‘We are still forgotten within all of this.’” 

The piece, which highlights the stories of five black women who had abortions, said the reversal of Roe v. Wade “stripped [many black women] of bodily autonomy” and “created another barrier to economic security and choosing the course of their future.” Widespread abortion access, it said, has “especially benefited black women who continue to fight for an equal place in the US.”

But how can abortion access benefit black females when it so starkly impacts black babies – half of them girls? Indeed, of the roughly 930,000 abortions performed in the United States each year, about 38 percent are performed on black women.