When you accuse pro-life people of not giving a damn about black babies once they're born, you're perpetuating a false stereotype. There are plenty of white people who are pro-life, who adopt, care for, and otherwise support black kids born to women who would otherwise abort their children. When my wife and I wanted more children and it didn't look like we could have them, we talked about adoption without any racial preference.
But a good question might be, how is it the problem of the pro-life side if young girls choose to get pregnant out of wedlock? When did the responsibility for the results of their choices become anyone's but theirs?
Sex education and the availability of birth control have done nothing but increase the numbers of out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy, venereal disease, and abortion.
As of 1966, fertility rates among teenage girls in the United States had been declining steadily for about a decade. Rates of venereal disease had been declining as well: the rate of infection for gonorrhea declined every year from 1950 to 1959, and the rate of syphilis infection in 1960 was less than half of what it had been ten years earlier.
[216] Unwilling to leave well-enough alone, however, the left demanded that sex education be added to public-school curricula nationwide, and that government-funded “family planning” (abortion) services be made more widely available.[217] The
American School Board Journal stressed the urgency of combating “illegitimacy and venereal disease,” while the head of
Planned Parenthood spoke of the need to reduce “the incidence of out-of-wedlock births and early marriage necessitated by pregnancy.”
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By 1968, almost half of all American schools—public and private, religious and secular—had instituted sex education programs for their students; these programs continued to spread widely throughout the American educational system in the 1970s.
[219] “Family planning” clinics proliferated exponentially from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies. In the late Sixties, federal expenditures for “family planning” and “population” legislation grew from $16 million annually to about $200 million; by 1978 the figure stood at $279 million.
Whereas in 1969 fewer than 250,000 teenagers used the services provided by abortion clinics, by 1976 their number had risen to 1.2 million. By the early 1980s, almost two thirds of the funding received by “family planning” agencies came from the federal government.
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Did any of these measures have a beneficial effect on society? The numbers tell the story:
Between 1970 and 1980, the pregnancy rate among 15- to 19-year-olds rose by more than 40 percent. Among unmarried girls aged 15 to 17, birth rates rose 29 percent between 1970 and 1984—even as the number of abortions more than doubled during the same period. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the percentage of unmarried teenage girls who were sexually active rose dramatically during these years. The rate of teenage gonorrhea in 1975 was three times higher than it had been in 1956.
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As noted earlier, today the illegitimacy rate among African Americans is nearly 70 percent, a figure far higher than had ever existed even in the days of Jim Crow segregation or, before that, slavery. The corresponding figures for Hispanics and whites are 46 percent and 26 percent, respectively. While considerably lower than the black rate, these numbers, too, are astronomical in comparison to the era before the left had foisted upon the United States its special insights vis a vis human sexuality.
So that's what birth control and sex education have gotten us. It used to be that getting pregnant when young and unmarried almost always meant one of two things -- you got married, and had the child, or you had the child and it was put up for adoption. But in the 1960's the left began to incentivize single mothers by creating the welfare system that we know today. The result was the destruction of the black family in America, and now black children are much more likely to be born to single mothers, if they are born at all, and for the left, the solution is not to strengthen the black community, but to increase the abortion of black babies.