Matt Bevin tells Tucker Carlson that abortion bans will benefit African Americans

Speaking on Fox News’ ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ Thursday about recent abortion laws passed in some southern states, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said the new restrictions on abortion will benefit African Americans.

Bevin rebuffed claims that the abortion laws are racist after Carlson brought up tweets from Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour and model Emily Ratajkowski. The latter said states that are attempting to ban abortions have the highest proportions of black women.

“It’s so empty,” Bevin said of the racism claims. “When you consider that over 40 percent of all the abortions performed in America are the taking of young black lives, that more black children — that more blacks, period — are killed by abortion than crime, accidents, cancer, disease, AIDS ... every other cause of death combined does not add up to the number of blacks killed by abortion.”

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as examined by PolitiFact.com, heart disease was the leading cause of death for African Americans and other Americans in 2015. The CDC does not list abortion as a cause of death. Instead, it defines a “legal induced abortion” as “an intervention performed by a licensed clinician ... that is intended to terminate an ongoing pregnancy,” according to PolitiFact.

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Could the high abortion rate among African American women be a result of inadequate sex education and unavailable birth control in states dominated by Republicans? This is one instance when the statistical argument should be questioned.