Arkansas is a state with a rich and intriguing history, both in triumph and struggle. Part of that history, as a southern state, is a storyline rooted in the plight of Civil Rights.  As the union’s 13th admitted slave state, there have been many obstacles to overcome since the Civil War. Most of us are familiar with the “Little Rock Nine”–the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. It took federal intervention by Republican President Eisenhower when Democrat Governor Orval Faubus refused to obey the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education ruling.

Today, the battle against dehumanization continues as abortion has violently taken the lives of over 60 million, nationwide, since Roe v. Wade. In the black community, over 18 million have been eliminated in staggering numbers that are hugely disproportionate to the black population. Adoption is always a loving option and there are many resources, including pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes, for those who choose to parent.

Abortion, no matter the hue of skin, is a tragedy, but nowhere is the destruction of abortion felt more than in the black community. The abortion industry is trying desperately to “destigmatize” the killing of our posterity, especially among African-Americans, giving flowery euphemisms to an act of violence. Abortion is many things, but it is not “healthcare”, it’s not “sacred”, it’s not “equality”, it’s not “reproductive justice”. Abortion is violence.  It’s population control. It’s regret. It’s lost fatherhood. It’s fake feminism. It’s injustice anywhere.

This is no coincidence. Back in the early part of the 1900s, Hilda Cornish, friend of Margaret Sanger and member of the American Eugenics Society, began the Arkansas Eugenics Association.  In 1942, the clinic that she began with other like-minded elites, who clung to the racist pseudoscience of eugenics, was renamed the Planned Parenthood Association of Arkansas. Cornish is considered the founder of eugenics in Arkansas. Her goal was to rid the state of the reproduction of those deemed “unfit” by means of birth control–the poor, the physically disabled, and the “feeble-minded” which were, disproportionately, those who were poor and black.

In 2017, the Arkansas Department of Health reported there were 3,249 abortions within the state. The State Health department further breaks down the numbers by revealing 48.3% of all abortions occur among white women while 42.2% are among black women. These percentages are only fully understood when the total population is revealed: 79% of Arkansas’s population is white while only 15% is black. This means that abortions in the black community are 2.8 times higher than the representation in the population; abortions among whites are less than their proportion of the population. This has long been the case. In the previous three years (2014, 2015 and 2016), the number of black abortions in Arkansas have outnumbered white abortions.

Ten years ago, the total number of abortions among white women was more than twice that among black women. In 2007, for instance, there were 2,982 white abortions and 1,482 black abortions. By 2014 (the start of the inverted numbers), white abortions plummeted by 1,157 while the number of black abortions increased by 420!

The disparity is alarming as it shows what is happening nationally and who, historically, has primarily been the target of the Population Control movement. Abortion is the number one killer of black lives.