(CNSNews.com) – In the top ten states that report their abortion statistics to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the numbers show that 60.48% of the babies killed in those states were black and Hispanic, a total of 201,744 abortions out of 333,560.
However, the data also show that in those areas blacks comprised an average 17.18% of the population and Hispanics, 11.56%. In other words, 60% of the abortions there came from a combined 28.74% of the population: black and Hispanic women.
The CDC numbers come from the agency's latest Abortion Surveillance report, published on Nov. 28, and covers the year 2011, the latest for which the abortion data are available.
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