Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Studnicki, James
• Fisher, John W.
• Sherley, James L.

Titel

Perceiving and Addressing the Pervasive Racial Disparity in Abortion

Ist Teil von

• Health services research and managerial epidemiology, 2020-01, Vol.7, p.2333392820949743-2333392820949743

Ort / Verlag

Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Black women have been experiencing induced abortions at a rate nearly 4 times that of White women for at least 3 decades, and likely much longer. The impact in years of potential life lost, given abortion’s high incidence and racially skewed distribution, indicates that it is the most demographically consequential occurrence for the minority population. The science community has refused to engage on the subject and the popular media has essentially ignored it. In the current unfolding environment, there may be no better metric for the value of Black lives.