Seascapes is using democrat approved numbers here. And she is factually correct.
Democrats do math this way
if there are 10 white women who get abortions and 3 black women who get abortions, white women have more abortions.
Democrats refuse to look at other factors. in the above scenario there are a total of 100 white women in the population and there are 9 black women.
to a democrat, white women have more abortions. period. end of discussion. move along there is nothing to see here...
Where the rest of the country (that would be republicans, independents and mathematicians that hate politics) looks at ratios of population.
the fact is 10% of the white female population has abortions in my scenario. while 33% of black women have abortions. this matters to republicans independents and mathematicians that hate politics.... but not to democrats.
Now for real world numbers that mathematicians who hate math find interest in. See Table 11 in the link provided
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwr...5808a1_e#tab10
TABLE 11. Reported abortions, by race of women who obtained an abortion* --- selected states, United States, 1997--2006†
please note the following:
§ Calculated as the number of abortions obtained by women in a given racial group per 1,000 women in that same group. For each state, abortions for women of unknown race were distributed according to the distribution of abortions among women of known race for that state.
ABORTION RATE from the note above this is the percentage per 1000 women in that same group.
White Women
1997: 12.4%
1998: 12.2%
1999: 11.7%
2000: 11.0%
2001: 11.0%
2002: 11.0%
2003: 11.0%
2004: 10.7%
2005: 10.5%
2006: 10.8%
Black Women
1997 37.5%
1998 36.9%
1999 36.5%
2000 35.1%
2001 34.8%
2002 34.4%
2003 34.2%
2004 33.4%
2005 33.1%
2006 33.4%
In addition to looking at the number of women having abortions as a percentage of women in a category, another thing that mathematicians who hate politics like to look at is the ratio of abortions per 1000 live births.
White abortion ratio
1997 199 abortions per 1000 live births
1998 192
1999 182
2000 170
2001 169
2002 168
2003 166
2004 161
2005 158
2006 158
Black abortion ratio
1997 546
1998 532
1999 530
2000 505
2001 510
2002 515
2003 507
2004 489
2005 469
2006 450
Now a democrat will look at these numbers and say “see I told you white people have more abortions.”
The rest of us… and in particular mathematicians who hate politics, will suggest that while all the numbers are bad, abortion rates among the black population is pandemic.
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