will only make things worse in Pontiac.
Look what it's doing to Baltimore:
The decline of marriage, particularly among African-Americans, is all
too familiar. Not as well-known is that Maryland has a very high abortion
rate (third highest among the states in 2005, the year that the
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene stopped collecting
abortion statistics). The breakdown by jurisdiction reveals that
Baltimore City is driving those deadly numbers, and also that the
abortion rate among African-American women is at least triple the white
rate.
...For comparison: In 1970, Baltimore City abortion
rates for single white and black women stood at 7.43 and 10
respectively (the abortion rate is the number of abortions per 1,000
women ages 15-44), with the married women's rates half that. By 2005,
the Baltimore rate was 86.2. The National Abortion Rights Action League,
which cites that figure, did not provide the African-American rate, but
it would be substantially higher.
Lest one think that poverty
accounts for this shift, the poverty rate in Baltimore has remained
relatively fixed at around 20 percent for decades. The marriage dearth
and the abortion deluge among all races are not attributable to material
causes as much as moral causes: young women's loss of respect for
themselves as the bearers of new life and their resulting willingness to
treat abortion as a method of contraception.
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