It is a well-established fact, and yet hardly recognized by mainstream America, that black women are specifically targeted for abortions. Abortion clinics are prevalent in minority neighborhoods. Moreover, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, advocated birth control for eugenic purposes. Now the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has found evidence drawing a link between abortions and premature births among black babies.   

In the last 25 years the premature birth rate has sky-rocketed, especially among black women. There are many critical health risks associated with premature and extremely premature births, most notably the 129-times increased risk of cerebral palsy.   Because of the serious nature of these health risks, the AAPS sought to discover the root cause of premature births and recently issued a report revealing a specific connection between premature births and abortions. 

Because black women are more likely to have abortions, they, in turn, experience premature births more often.   Brent Rooney, author of the report, explains:

“Numerous studies have shown a statistically significant increase in risk of EPB [early preterm birth] or XPB [extremely preterm birth] in women with a history of induced abortion (IA) compared with women with no prior IA. About 43% of pregnancies in black American women end in IA. It is likely that IAs are an important risk factor for PTB [preterm birth] and that they help to explain the racial disparity.”

Rooney goes on to reveal that black women are three times more likely to have an early preterm birth, and four times more likely to have an extremely preterm birth. He then cites six different studies that show women who have had abortions are at a significantly higher risk for preterm births. 

The study also points out that even abortion advocates cannot deny the link.  They point to prominent abortion activist Malcolm Potts who admitted that “there seems little doubt that there is a true relationship between the high incidence of therapeutic abortion and prematurity."

Read the complete AAPS report here.