Planned Parenthood Tells Black Women Abortion Is Safer Than Live Birth

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By Shane Vander Hart - Posted at Caffeinated Thoughts:

Published 11.01.2017

On Tuesday in recognition of Halloween Planned Parenthood targeted black women with “#ScaryStats” through their @PPBlackComm Twitter account. In their leading tweet they said, “If you’re a Black woman in America, it’s statistically safer to have an abortion than to carry a pregnancy to term or give birth #ScaryStats.”

If you're a Black woman in America, it's statistically safer to have an abortion than to carry a pregnancy to term or give birth #ScaryStats

— PP Black Community (@PPBlackComm) October 31, 2017

They follow-up with the statistics.

“Between 1998-2015, 16.1mil women accessed abortion care, 108 died. Btwn 2011–’13, BW accounted for 43.5 deaths of every 100,000 live births,” they tweeted.


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