African-Americans and Induced Abortion
Akua Furlow & Thomas Strahan

Footnotes

1. “Fears of Genocide Among Black Americans as Related to Age. Sex and Region”. C Turner and WA Darity, Am J. Public Health 63 (12): 1029- 1034, Dec 1973. For other articles on abortion and genocide or racism see: “Abortion is Not a Civil Right”. Greg Keath, Wall Street Journal, Sept 27, 1989, p A22: “Rape and Abortion: Don't Forget Robin”. Mary Meehan, Human Life Review, Vol. XVI, No 1, Winter, 1990, pp. 55-62; Abortion, Poverty and Black Genocide: Gifts to the Poor? Erma Clardy Craven, in TW Hilgers and DJ Horan, eds; Abortion and Social Justice, New York, Sheed & Ward, 1972, p. 231-242; “Abortion and Human Rights”, Edward C Smith, Human Life Review, Winter, 1978, p 57; Jesse Jackson, President of Operation P.U.S.H, "Open Letter to Congress", Sept 6, 1977, quoted in Smith, "Abortion and Human Rights", p 58; “The First Annual African-American Pro-LifeJournal”.1993, American Life League, Inc, P.O. Box 1350, Stafford, VA, 22555, (collection of essays on abortion written by African-Americans). [Back]

2.  “Unmarried Black Adolescent Father's Attitudes Toward Abortion”. Contraception and Sexuality, Leo E. Hendricks, Journal Adolescent Health Care, 2: 199-203, 1982 [Back]

3. “Outcome of Illegitimate Conception in a Black Population”, R Michielutte, CA Hang, C Vincent, C Cochrane, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 38: (4): 583-587, October, 1971 [Back]

4. “Abortion Attitudes in Poverty Level Blacks”, CE Vincent, CA Haney, CM Cochrane, Seminars in Psychiatry, 2:309-317, 1970 [Back]

5The Connecticut Mutual Life Report on American Values in the '80s: The Impact Belief, Commissioned by Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Connecticut (1981) [Back]

6.. “For Richer, For Poorer”, Jack Fowler, Human Life Review, XVIII, No. 4, pp.29-40, Fall, 1992 [Back]

7. “Abortion Surveillance, United States, 1988”, LM Koonin, KD Kochanek, JC Smith, M Ramick, MMWR Vol. 40, No. SS- 1, June 1991, pp. 15-42 [Back]

8. “Characteristics of U.S. Women Having Abortions”, 1987, SK Henshaw, LM Koonin, JC Smith, Family Planning Perspectives, 23(2): 75-81, March/April, 1991 [Back]

9. “Induced Termination of Pregnancy: Reporting States,” 1988, KD Kochanek, Monthly Vital Statistics Report, 39(12): 1-32, April 30, 1991, (14 States reporting) [Back]

10. “Flight of Life's Priorities”, Cal Thomas, Washington D.C. Times, April 1, 1993, p. G1, G4, quoting Michael Novak [Back]

11. “Pregnancy-Resolution Decisions. What if Abortion Were Banned?”, JG Murphy, BE Symington, S Jacobson, The Journal of Reproductive Medicine, 28(11): 789-797, November, 1983 [Back]

12. “Delivery or Abortion in Inner-City Adolescents. SA Fischman”, Am. J. Orthopsychiatry, 47(1): 127-133, Jan, 1977 [Back]

13. “The Social and Economic Correlates of Pregnancy Resolution Among Adolescents in New York City, by Race and Ethnicity: A Multivariate Analysis”. Theodore Joyce, Am. J. Public Health, 78(6): 626-632, June, 1982 [Back]

14. Race, “Motherhood and Abortion”, Candace Clark, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, (1979); Dissertation Abstracts Int’l, 40(10), April, 1980, Order No. 8008711 [Back]

15. “Predicting the Psychological Consequences of Abortion”. LR Shusterman, Social Science and Medicine, 13A: 683-689, 1979 [Back]

16. “Why Do Women Have Abortions?”, A Torres, JD Forrest, Family Planning Perspectives, 20(4): 169- 176, July/August, 1988 [Back]

17. “Women Refused Second-trimester Abortion: Correlates of Pregnancy Outcome,” N Binkin, C Mhango, W Cates, Jr., B Slovis, M Freeman, American Journal Obstetrics Gynecology, 149:501-504, 1984 [Back]

18. “Legal Abortion and Placenta Previa.” DA Grimes, T Techman, American Journal Obstetrics Gynecology, 149:501-504, 1984 [Back]

19. “Morbidity Risk Among Young Adolescents Undergoing Elective Abortion”, RT Burkman, MF Atienza, TM King, Contraception, 30(2): 99-105, August, 1984 [Back]

20. “Maternal Perinatal Risk Factors and Child Abuse, MI Benedict”, RB White, DA Cornely, Child Abuse and Neglect, 9:217-224, 1985 [Back]

21. “Violence During Pregnancy and Substance Use”, H Amaro, LE Fried, H Cabral, B. Zuckerman, American Journal of Public Health, 80(5): 575-579, May, 1990 [Back]

22. “Emotional Distress Patterns Among Women Having First or Repeat Abortions”. E Freeman, K Rickels, GR Huggins, C Garcia, J Polin, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 55(5): 630-636, May, 1980 [Back]

23. “The Repeat Abortion Patient”, J Leach, Family Planning Perspectives, 9(1): 37, Jan/Feb, 1977 [Back]

24. “Therapeutic Abortion During Adolescence: Psychiatric Observations”. Barglow and Weinstein, J of Youth and Adolescence, Vol.2, No. 4, 1973 [Back]

25. “Breast Cancer Risk Factors in African-American Women: The Howard University Tumor Registry Experience”, AE Laing, FM Demenais, R Williams, J. National Medical Association, 85(12): 931, Dec, 1993 [Back]

26. “Contraceptive Practice and Repeat Induced Abortion: An Epidemiological Investigation.” M Shepard, M Bracken, J. Biosocial Science, 11: 289-302, 1979 [Back]

27. “Induced Abortion and Congenital Malformation of Offspring of Subsequent Pregnancies”. MB Bracken, TR Holford, Am. J. Epidemiology, 109(4): 425, 1979 [Back]

28. “Cocaine Use During Pregnancy: Prevalence and Correlates.” DA Frank, H Amaro, H Baucher, R Hingson, S Parker, H Reece, R Vinvi, Pediatrics, 82(6): 888-895, Dec, 1988 [Back]

29. “Drug Use Among Adolescent Mothers: Profile of Risk”. H Amaro, B Zuckerman, H Cabral, Pediatrics, 84: 144-150, July 1989 [Back]

30. “Maternal Mortality Surveillance.” United States. 1979-1986. LM Koonin, HK Atrash, HW Lawson, JC Smith, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Centers for Disease Control, Vol.40, No. SS-1, June 1991, pp. 1-11 [Back]

31. “Legal Abortion Mortality in the United States: 1972 to 1982”. H Atrash, HT MacKay, Am. J. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 156(3): 611, March 1987 [Back]

32. “Deaths from Second Trimester Abortion by Dilatation and Evacuation: Causes. Prevention. Facilities”. W Cates, Jr., DA Grimes, Journal of American College Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 58(4): 401, October, 1981 [Back]

33. “Ectopic Pregnancy Concurrent with Induced Abortion: Incidence and Mortality”, HK Atrash, HT MacKay, CJR Hogue, American Journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, 162: 726-730, 1990 [Back]

34. “Ectopic Pregnancy in the United States”. 1970-1986. H Lawson, H Atrash, A Saftlas, E Finch, CDC Surveillance Summaries, MMWR, Vol. 38, No. 22-2: 1- 10, September, 1989 [Back]

35. “The Social Consequence of Teenage Parenthood.” Frank F. Furstenberg, Family Planning Perspectives, 8(4): 148, July/August, 1976; “Adolescent Mothers and Their Children in Late Life”. Frank F Furstenberg, J Brooks-Gunn, SP Morgan, Family Planning Perspectives, 19(4): 142, Jul/Aug, 1987; “The Children of Teenage Mothers: Patterns of Early Childbearing in Two Generations”. Frank Furstenberg, JA Lavine, J Brooks-Gunn, Family Planning Perspectives, 22(2): 54, March/April, 1990. [Back]

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