Sentences with phrase «american abortion rate»

The African - American abortion rate is 41 per 1,000 women among that age group, which is four times higher than non-Hispanic whites abortion rate at 10 per 1,000 and twice as high for Hispanics at 20 per 1,000.»

Conversely, over the past 25 years, North American abortion rates have dropped by 40 percent.

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Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

This is largely due to the efforts of the American economist Steven D. Levitt, who claimed, in Freakonomics [1], that the legalisation of abortion has led to a reduction in American crime rates.

Then there is the sadness of black Americans who, according to the polls, are social and moral conservatives, also on the question of abortion, but who have an abortion rate several times that of the general population.

America's inmorality has only kept getting bigger with abortions (at the rate Americans have it) and with legalizing gay marriage and now with forcing everyone to pay for contraception.

Abortion rates have fallen 12 percent since 2010 according to a recent survey, and 49 percent of Americans think abortion is morally wrong, much higher than on other life -Abortion rates have fallen 12 percent since 2010 according to a recent survey, and 49 percent of Americans think abortion is morally wrong, much higher than on other life -abortion is morally wrong, much higher than on other life - issues.

He talks about how the African - American community's illegitimacy rate has reached 70 percent, But he does not touch on the fact that Black women are less likely to have an abortion than White women.

Steven David «Steve» Levitt is a prominent American economist best known for his work on crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates.

Background Information: Support for access to safe, legal abortion is at a record high — nearly 70 percent of Americans don't want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, the highest rate since the case was decided more than 40 years ago — and that includes people who voted for President Trump.