Abortion Turns Racist?

Well, isn't that the ready-made spin that can be applied to this otherwise-heartening piece of abortion news?:

Although the overall U.S. abortion rate is at its lowest level since 1974, the drop has been far more dramatic for whites than for African Americans, who in 2004 had abortions at five times the rate of white women, according to a report released Monday.

The abortion rate for Latinas was about three times that of whites.

The Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based research group that supports abortion rights but whose statistics are generally respected by [pro-life] groups, analyzed thirty years of data since the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

The article quotes a San Francisco "expert" reassuring readers that the emerging stark disparities in abortion rates by ethnicity is ascribable to "poverty and ignorance." Another expert whom the L.A. Times would never so designate wasn't buying that rickety spin:

But Day Gardner, founder and president of the National Black Pro-Life Union in Washington, disagreed. She blamed the high rates on the number of inner-city clinics that performed abortions. “It doesn’t have as much to do with poverty as that the abortion facilities are there, ingrained in the neighborhoods,” she said. “We as a community don’t talk about this. . . . This is a silent killer among us.”

What's the old movie line? "If you build them, they will come." Sure looks like the baby-killing industry has made the mode of "family planning" they favor a lot more prominent and easier to find than its alternatives. And I'm far from the first one to make this observation:

This echoes a protest against Planned Parenthood in April by pastors and activists from prominent black churches, who see the abortion industry as a genocide targeting their communities. Planned Parenthood got caught exploiting racist sentiments in their fundraising, which certainly lends itself to Gardner’s view.

It's always fascinating to see two left-wing Donk constituencies turned against each other. In the Dem primaries we saw the race-baiters defeat the feminists. One would think that the former would be all over this issue as well. Which raises the natural exit question: since Barack Obama is not so subtley asking the American people to elect him president because he's (half-)black, doesn't the revelation that the unborn children of one side of his ethnic heritage are being snuffed at five times the rate of the unborn children of the other side of his ethnic heritage compel him to rethink his extremist views on abortion and infanticide?

Bonus exit question: What, if anything, has Uncle Jeremiah had to say on the subject?