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Health Care Inequality is Key in Abortion Rate Disparities

By Dr. Melissa Gilliam, Guttmacher Institute

August 13, 2008 - 7:00am

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Behind virtually every abortion is an unintended pregnancy. African American women have higher abortion rates than their white peers because they have much higher rates of unintended pregnancy -- three times higher than those of white women.

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