PREFILED    JAN 10 2022

REFERENCE TITLE: unborn African-American babies

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

HR 2001

Introduced by

Representatives Blackman: Bolick

A resolution

expressing support for protecting the lives of unborn african-american babies.

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Whereas, since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the United States Supreme Court, more than 54 million babies have been aborted in Planned Parenthood centers around the nation, having drastic personal, practical and political effects on communities and citizens. Every town, city, ethnicity and age group has suffered from the tragic effects of this mostly surgical and sometimes medical procedure. The true toll of abortion may remain unknown and immeasurable because the data, for the most part, has not been collected or has been ignored by those responsible for its collection; and

Whereas, abortion impacts African Americans at a higher rate than any other population group, and more African-American babies are aborted than born alive. In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an Abortion Surveillance Report stating that, although African-American women make up 14 percent of the childbearing population, these women obtained 36 percent of all abortions. At a ratio of 474 abortions per 1,000 live births, African-American women have the highest ratio of any group in the country; and

Whereas, this alarming number equates to more than 1,300 African-American babies aborted every day in America. Of the more than 44 million abortions performed since the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, 19 million African-American babies have been aborted, yet African Americans comprise just under 13 percent of the United States population; and

Whereas, the impacts of abortion on African-American communities are hard to fathom. According to the Guttmacher Institute, which generally supports abortion, 360,000 African-American babies were aborted in 2011. CDC statistics for 2011 show that 287,072 African Americans died from all other causes, excluding abortion, making abortion the leading cause of death among African Americans.  African-American women and community leaders should be outraged about the racial disparity when African-American women are targeted by Planned Parenthood.

Therefore

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona:

That the Members of the House of Representatives recognize abortion as the leading cause of death among African Americans and express their sentiment that unborn African-American babies conceived by legal citizens of the United States are protected under the United States Constitution guaranteeing equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans.