Justice Jackson wants to increase the Black baby survival rate to 198% but what about the Black abortion rate?
From The Aspen Beat
The three libs were outvoted last week when the Supreme Court declared Harvard’s racial discrimination illegal. So, they did what liberals do when they lose – they shouted, invented “facts,” and implied that the majority were racist.
The facts they invented included the following.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recited as a “fact” that Black pediatricians, as compared to white pediatricians, double the survival rate of black babies. She implied that Black babies die more often when under the care of white pediatricians because the white ones are racist.
Therefore, her reasoning goes, we should favor Blacks in college admissions – so that we can double the Black baby survival rate.
That would be a neat trick – to double the survival rate of Black babies – and a pretty good reason to continue racially discriminating in favor of Blacks, if only her “fact” were true.
But it’s not.
The current Black baby survival rate is over 99%, within a hair of the white baby survival rate. So, a doubling of the Black baby survival rate would put it at over 198%. In other words, for every one Black baby born, nearly two would survive.
I suppose this spontaneous generation of an additional Black baby spawned by the excellent care of a quota-baby Black medical school applicant would give us a good reason, finally, to refer to the baby with the plural pronoun “they.”
But, alas, it’s not possible. One baby equals, at most, one baby. No matter how hard we thumb the scale in college admissions, and no matter how excellent the care from a Black pediatrician, that Black baby will still be only one Black baby.
But here’s an area in medical care where we could indeed increase the survival rate of Black babies, and it would be very easy.
It’s the infanticide we call abortion. About 30% of Black babies are killed in the womb, compared to about 10% of white babies. In some parts of the country such as New York City, the figure is over 50%.
This has been semi-genocidal. The Black population has shrunk in comparison to the population at large. Altogether, about 16 million Black babies were aborted during the reign of Roe v. Wade.
That Black abortion rate may decline since the overturning of Roe last year. I look forward to Justice Jackson celebrating that fact.
