CO: Beauprez undskylder for bemærkning om abort

Den republikanske guvernørkandidat, det nuværende kongresmedlem Bob Beauprez, må undskylde for en bemærkning om at sorte kvinde for aborter i en alarmerende høj rate. Det skriver Denver Post. I et radioprogram sagde Beauprez at "I've seen numbers as high as 70 percent - maybe even more - in the African-American community that I think is just appalling,".

Det fik naturligvis aborttilhængere og sorte borgerrettighedsaktivister på gaden (men ikke rigtig hans demokratiske modkandidat Bill Ritter, han er nemlig selv pro-life...).

Beauprez undskyldte for udsagnet, men der er alligevel en smule sandhed i udsagnet. Sorte kvinder fik i gennemsnit foretaget flere end dobbelt så mange aborter som deres amerikanske medsøstre. Ifølge The Guttmacher Institute, "a nonprofit based in New York that studies reproductive issues, found in a recent report that black women had the highest annual abortion rate - 49 per 1,000 black women of reproductive age. White women had the lowest - 13 per 1,000. The overall abortion rate is 21 per 1,000 U.S. women, or 2.1 percent.

The institute estimated in 2002 that 43 percent of conceptions among black women ended in abortion, compared with 18 percent for whites. Its report in 2002 said black women were almost four times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Latino women were 2.5 times as likely.".