JoeB131
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Population control marched on triumphantly during and beyond the Nixon Administration. After the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, population controllers pressed hard, and often successfully, for public subsidy of abortions for poor women. Because they presented this as a humanitarian good, eugenicists were able to get credit for doing what they had always done: suppressing the birth rate of poor people and non-whites."
How Eugenics and Population Control Led to Abortion
Except that didn't happen.
Here's the birth rate for every year in the 1970s..
Live Births and Birth Rates, by Year — Infoplease.com
1970 3,731,386 18.4
1971 3,555,970 17.2
1972 3,258,411 15.6
1973 3,136,965 14.9
1974 3,159,958 14.9
1975 3,144,198 14.8
1976 3,167,788 14.8
1977 3,326,632 15.4
1978 3,333,279 15.3
1979 3,494,398 15.9
There was no huge drop between 1972 and 1974 after Roe v. Wade. In fact, the birth rate levelled off (It had been dropping since the mid 1960s when the birth control pill was introduced) and then started creeping up again.
Because the reality was, abortion was already happening in the back alleys and "someone who can take care of that" houses for the poor, while the rich just flew to somewhere it was legal or had a medical professional quietly take care of it.
And quite the contrary, despite what you say about it being a plot to kill non-whites, since 1973, non-whites have increased as a percentage of the population, not decreased.
Read more: Live Births and Birth Rates, by Year Infoplease.com Live Births and Birth Rates, by Year — Infoplease.com