The twin national actions of incarceration and abortion have made it more difficult for African\u002DAmericans to live free, or live at all
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But 1965 marked another landmark moment in the history of Black America: it was the year of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report, “The Negro Family: A Case of National Action.” It was controversial then and now for attributing the cause of Black poverty to family structures, as well as to the legacy of segregation and continuing racism.
The first is mass incarceration. No other democracy employs mass incarceration as social policy to the degree that the United States does. In 2016, the U.S. incarcerated 860 people for every 100,000 adults, down from its peak in 2008, when it was 1,000 for every 100,000 adults. By way of comparison, Canada has about 118 inmates per 100,000 people. America’s rate is more than twice that of the United Kingdom, Italy and France combined.
The comparable figure was 10 per cent for white pregnancies. More recent data show that Black women continue to have the highest abortion rate, 27.1 per 1,000 women, compared with 10 per 1,000 for white women.
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