Originally aired September 2018

New York City recently released data showing there were 59,854 abortions in 2016. Approximately 10% of all U.S. abortions are performed in the city where 31% of all pregnancies end in abortion. A deeper look shows an unsettling reality; while the black community represents 24% of the population, 39% of all abortions are performed on black women. For every black child born there are 1.03 aborted. If you are conceived to a black mother you are more likely to be aborted than born alive.

There is a glimmer of hope. While abortion numbers came down 5.3% from 2015, abortions in the black community fell more than twice that - 12.6%. Is the black community waking up to this scourge upon their people?

This real abortion news update is sponsored by CompassCare. For a full transcript go to realabortionnews.com.