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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander

GOP senator slammed for claiming ‘Black babies are at greater risk of being aborted than white babies’

AP

Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee has been blasted for saying that “Black babies are at greater risk of being aborted than white babies”.

During a hearing this week about the effects of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, Mr Lee said that “a New York City Health Department report that was released just about four years ago found that between 2012 and 2016, when this study was conducted, Black mothers aborted 136,426 babies while giving birth to only 118,127 babies.”

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