How abortion impacted Black America

On this, the 2026 commemoration of Martin Luther King Day, Pulse Life Advocates considers the impact of abortion on the African American community.

Q. How many Black babies have been aborted in the U.S. since the 1973 Roe verses Wade decision?

A. About 20 million, according to the National Right to Life Center in 2021.

Q. How many total abortions have occurred in that same time period for all races?

A. About 63.5 million.

Q. What percentage of all abortions in the U.S. are done on Black women?

A. About 40%.

Q. What percentage of the total U.S. population do Black Americans comprise?

A. A little over 13 percent.

Q. If not for abortion, what percentage of the total U.S. population would Black Americans comprise?

A. Twenty percent.

Q. What do you call any act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group?

A. According to the United Nations: genocide.

Black Genocide

Q. Were there racial overtones to the Roe v Wade decision?

A. The late Ruth Bader Ginsberg thought so. In an interview in the New York Times Magazine, she said:

“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding of abortion.”

One of the attorneys who successfully argued the Roe decision, Ron Weddington, was clear in his motivations, as he expressed two decades later in a letter to then President Bill Clinton:

“I don’t think you are going to go very far in reforming the country until we have a better educated, healthier, wealthier population…. Start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country [through abortion]…. There, I’ve said it. It’s what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and…well…so Republican. Our survival depends upon our developing a population where everyone contributes. We don’t need more cannon fodder. We don’t need more parishioners. We don’t need more cheap labor. We don’t need more poor babies.”

The holocaust committed against Black babies in the United States violates the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the essence of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Said King:

”I have a dream … that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”

Abortion denies that opportunity, as Black babies are 4 times as likely to be aborted as White ones. 

Reverend King did not speak directly on the abortion issue. But he did speak directly on the need for America to finally live up to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence. Abortion is a denial of our God-given right to Life as expressed in the Declaration of Independence..

Let us honor the legacy of Reverend Martin Luther King by outlawing human abortion and ending Black genocide in America.

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