CO-Gov: Beauprez thinks majority of black pregnancies are aborted

Now this is enough to get your blood boiling.  Colorado Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez, who is also running for governor in that state, said in a radio interview on Monday that 70% of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion:

"In some of our ethnic communities, we're seeing very, very highpercentages of babies, children, pregnancies end in abortion," Beauprezsaid in an interview broadcast on Colorado Public Radio. "I've seennumbers as high as 70 percent, maybe even more, in the African-Americancommunity that I think is just appalling."

It looks like someone is jealous of George Allen!  Obviously the number Beauprez gave was inaccurate, and he apologized on Wednesday.  Even though he did say he was sorry, Colorado voters have to ask themselves whether they want to elect a governor that just throws around numbers like that in order to score points with a fringe demographic.

Yesterday, columnist Mike Lettwin of the Rocky Mountain News responded to Beauprez:

I kept waiting to hear if Beauprez had said that 70 percent of pregnant African-American women lacked the necessities to swim.

As of August 15th, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter had a 48% to 39% lead over Republican Bob Beauprez.  One can only wonder what the next poll will say.
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Other sites blogging about this issue: Voice of a Native Son, 5280 Magazine, Life or something like it, Colorado Confidential, Post an Apology, Colorado Media Matters, The Carpetbagger Report, Mirror on America, ColoradoPols, Feministing, Jack and Jill Politics, Political Wire.