Abortionists Seek To Thwart Black Population Growth, Group Says

HARRISBURG, PA — In a key Pennsylvania court case on abortion, a new legal filing asserts that Black women are targeted by the abortion industry in a deliberate attempt to thwart Black population growth.

The Independence Law Center filed the brief in a court case the Allegheny Reproductive Health Center filed against the state Department of Human Services that now is before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Harrisburg-based center is a civil rights law firm affiliated with the Pennsylvania Family Institute, a nonprofit group that counts among its mission keeping abortion rights out of the state Constitution.

Commonwealth Court in March ruled against the Allegheny Reproductive Health Center, which sued the state over a law limiting Medicaid funds for abortion purposes. It's unclear when the Supreme Court will hear the case.

The center contends that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry are suing the state seeking a constitutional provision that would require taxpayer funding of abortions.

The center also claims its brief exposes the rule eugenics has played in the abortion industry's targeting of Black babies for abortion.

“While the abortion industry argues that the Black community is underserved due to a lack of access to abortion, access is certainly not the problem,” said Cheryl Allen, an attorney for the center.

“Black women and their offspring are not underserved but targeted by the abortion industry, as evidenced by the fact that well over 40 percent of abortions in Pennsylvania are on Black
women despite the Black community making up only 12 percent of the state’s population. To claim they’re underserved is simply untrue.”

The brief alleges the abortion industry has sought to control and suppress Black population growth.

"Abortion‒as weaponized against the Black population‒comes from a history of eugenics and pervasive racism, spawning a legacy that harms the Black community," it states. "If our goal is to
improve access to beneficial healthcare for Black communities, abortion is not the way.”