Abortion question....

Someone asked me a good question....The largest demographic of those who receive abortions are single African American women. If you are against abortion, does that mean that you are inherently for Black Lives matter? If you are for women's rights/proabortion, does that mean that you are inherently against BLM? Banning abortions allows more single African American women to have their babies which is consistent with the BLM movement. Thoughts?

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Graylight · 51-55, F

That's a controversial statement to begin with. Who has abortions is open to wide interpretation depending on the data sets, hypotheses, data collection and analysis methods, and so on. Each link below provides a different, calculated answer.

https://givingcompass.org/article/the-demographic-breakdown-of-women-who-are-getting-abortions
https://www.guttmacher.org/report/characteristics-us-abortion-patients-2014
https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/abortions-by-race/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

The one thing they all have in common, though , is the agreement that women in their early-mid 20's account for the most abortions when age is considered. Are you inherently against young women if you support choice? Neither is it with BLM. Everything else is making inferences and creating connection points that don't exist.