(Washington Examiner) Democrats love to talk about abortion and systemic racism, just not in the same conversation.
The National Right to Life Center estimates that by the end of 2021, 63.5 million abortions had been performed in the United States since the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Nearly 40% of women who seek abortions are African American, which is astounding, considering this demographic made up just 13.6% of the population at the time of the 2020 census. This likely means that over 20 million black babies have been aborted during the past 50 years.
20 million equates to 6% of the total U.S. population. It’s also approximately 45% of the current black American population of 45 million. And, had these children been born, blacks would represent about 20% of the total population. Clearly, abortion has had an enormous effect on blacks in America.
In August 2019, then-New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet assembled his troops to introduce the controversial 1619 Project , their deliberate attempt to “reframe America’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”
The editors of the “paper of record” had decided that systemic racism should become the central issue in the upcoming presidential campaign. Baquet told his staff, “Race in the next year and I think, to be frank, what I hope you come away from this discussion with — race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story.”
Following George Floyd’s death in May 2020, systemic racism exploded into the national debate. Suddenly, every institution, the U.S. justice system, our history, our Founding Fathers, and of course, every Republican, was declared racist. Woke corporations forced employees to attend diversity training sessions to learn how to be “less white.” And demands for equity became ubiquitous.
Planned Parenthood was also forced to recognize its own racist roots. The group admitted that Margaret Sanger, the organization’s founder, was a racist with “harmful connections to the eugenics movement.” Sanger established a predecessor organization, “The Negro Project,” in 1939. In turn, Planned Parenthood removed Sanger’s name from its Manhattan health clinic and renamed nearby “Margaret Sanger Square.” In a later, more formal declaration that it called “a reckoning,” Planned Parenthood acknowledged that Sanger was a white supremacist. The group also confirmed that Sanger delivered a speech to “a women’s auxiliary branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, New Jersey, in 1926.”
