The Disparity Antiracists Don’t Talk About, by John Stonestreet, Heather Peterson

In all the talk about racial injustices, the racial disparities for abortion are ignored. And that’s because we would need to talk about marriage.

By John Stonestreet & Heather Peterson, The Stream, July 5, 2022

Originally published on Breakpoint.org: BreakPoint Commentaries. Republished with permission of The Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

In all the talk about racial injustices, the racial disparities for abortion are ignored. And that’s because we would need to talk about marriage.

Racial Disparities in Abortion

Recently in The Wall Street Journal, Jason Riley asked a provocative question, “Why Won’t the Left Talk About Racial Disparities in Abortion?” In it, he describes how the “black abortion rate is nearly four times higher than the white rate,” how more black babies in New York City are aborted than born, and how “[n]ationally, the number of babies aborted by black women each year far exceeds the combined number of blacks who drop out of school, are sent to prison and are murdered.”

Even books on racism by Christian publishers, for example, Jemar Tisby’s How to Fight Racism, never mention the significant racial disparities that exist when it comes to abortion, even while spending significant time on other disparities, such as student achievement, incarceration, wealth, and healthcare in general.  …

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