39% of New York Pregnancies End in Abortion

Stanek weekend question: Where are obvious places religious leaders can help lower NYCs soaring abortion rates?
Pro-choice and pro-life groups alike are shuddering at the news that 4 out of every 10 pregnancies in NYC ends in Abortion. Data released Friday by the city’s Health Dept. reveals that in 2009, there were 87,273 abortions and 126,774 live births. The abortion rate broke down along demographic and geographic lines: 60% for black women, 41% for Hispanics, 22% for Asians and 20% for white women…. Overall, the Big Apple’s abortion rate is more than twice the national average of 19%...

Jivin Js Life Links 1-7-11
Dr. Drew Pinsky has indicated that MTV’s No Easy Decision Abortion special made him uncomfortable: “The topic makes me uncomfortable,” Pinsky admitted Thursday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena . “But the paradigm there is I felt the conversation was worth having. You have to let the conversation occur.” Archbishop Dolan said Abortion statistics in NY indicated that it was unlikely that the practice would soon end. But, he added: “W...

Rare part missing in NYCs safe, legal, and rare abortion rate
Absolutely heartbreaking : NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - Archbishop Timothy Dolan is calling for efforts to make Abortions in New York City “rare.” Dolan gathered with other Religious Leaders on Thursday to draw attention to the city’s high abortion rate. The city Health Department last month released statistics that showed 39 percent of pregnancies ended with induced termination in 2009. READ THE REPORT HERE . “I re-affirm Cardinal John O’Connor’s promise of a quarter

New York abortion rate review shows 39% of pregnancies terminated
ABC and CBS News set off an Internet firestorm with reports that 49% of Pregnancy outcomes in New York City terminate by Abortion. The Big Apple’s Health Department reported on over 210,000 pregnancies in 2010. Over 87,000 of those pregnancies ended in terminations. At least no one can accuse the pro-choice community of not doing its part to end overcrowding in Manhattan. Asian and white pregnancies ending in abortion: about 20% for each group. It’s not a measure of pregnancies, but...

Rush Limbaugh on New York Citys Staggering Abortion Numbers Audio 1/7/11
Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh yesterday dropping truly shocking Abortion statistics being reported by ABC New York (their article actually says 39%). In New York City, 41% of all pregnancies end in Abortion - and the rate among Minorities is even higher (60% among Blacks, 41% among Hispanics, 23% among Asians). The rate among “Non-Hispanic Whites” in 2009 was 20%. Rush takes issue with the leftist takeaway from those numbers - That there is something wrong with “...

Shock: 41% of New York City Pregnancies End in Abortion
A new statistic released by the New York City health department is shocking pro-life advocates across the country today as it shows 41 percent of pregnancies end in Abortion. That compares with the figure of about 20 percent of pregnancies nationwide ending in abortions, as the abortion rate has been reduced over the last two decades from one in three to one in five pregnancies resulting in an abortion and the destruction of human life. The new city numbers, from 2009, show 87,273 abortions in N...

NYC's 41% Abortion Rate Riles Religious Leaders
Like this Story? Share it: (CBS/AP) In a noticeable departure from strict Catholic dogma decrying Abortion no matter what, New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan called together Religious Leaders Thursday and asked everyone to work with each other to make Abortion "rare." Dolan's called for the gathering in light of a New York City Department of Health report (PDF) stating that induced terminations ended about 41 percent of the 214,454 reported pregnancies in the city last year. Nationally, the n...

Clergy Slam NYC's 40% Abortion Rate
Archbishop Timothy Dolan at a Chiaroscuro Foundation Press Conference Yesterday, a group of clergy members gathered to denounce the 40% Abortion rate in New York City. The Health Department had previously revealed that of 87,273 pregnancies were "induced terminations," compared to nearly 127,000 live births (there were also over 11,000 miscarriages), which means NYC's Abortion rate is about double the national rate. Archbishop Timothy Dolan said, "I’m frankly embarrassed to be a member ...

Abortion Carnage in NYC
These numbers from NYC on the Abortion rate are shocking in a world where shocking has ceased to have much meaning. As summarized by CBC News: "The city Health Department last month released statistics that showed 39 percent of pregnancies ended with induced termination in 2009."This equates to 90,000 abortions in NYC annually. -------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Visit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress! ...

Catholic Church Abortion-Shames New Yorkers, But of Course They're Missing the Point
​Abortion. Saying the word in the midst of a cocktail party will hush even the most intrepid of irreverent souls. Because even if you're pro-choice, you can't actually be pro-abortion, at least not in any public Fashion. Baby killing is always, always, always bad. Right? Which is perhaps why the much-maligned Pedophile-priest-troubled generally rather sexist and without-a-clue Catholic Church has glommed on to abortion as one of the things it can censure in New York City without fear of ...

NYC: 41% of All Pregnancies End in Abortion
Sadly, this isn’t shocking. NEW YORK (WABC) - New and eye-opening statistics about the rate of Abortions in New York City have been released by the Health Department. It raises questions about the effectiveness of current Birth Control education. 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortion. The rate for Minorities is even higher. Both sides say the high abortion percentage is a crisis. “If 41% of New York babies are aborted, with the percentage even higher in the...

SUI-GENOCIDE: 41% OF NYC'S PREGNANCIES END WITH ABORTION
HORRIFYING. ...

Light of Christ Can Overcome Abortions Culture of Death
Herod was motivated by intense fear and desperation, which lead him to destroy others to preserve his position and protect his throne.   So often today fear motivates terrible decisions, adding to the culture of death in which we find ourselves.  Our culture tends to disregard hope while overemphasizing every fear to the extent that death is seen as the answer to many difficult human struggles.  Death is promoted as the answer to a difficult Pregnancy.  Death is often th...

YWCA becomes Platform 51 in Great Britain
Perhaps this best describes this organization and the changing values of our society. There is something about “Platform 51″ that says it all. No doubt the word “Christian” was a troublesome matter, and oh so not P.C. Not here yet, but soon no doubt A new statist organization, that receives government funds and can no longer appeal to any moral tenet .Archbishop Cramer has some great comments at the bottom link.  Here tis: The YWCA, formerly the Young Women’s C...

The Missing: "Parenting Is A Crapshoot"
A reader elaborates on a central theme of this thread: I have an aunt and uncle who struggled with Infertility for years. She had a serious case of Endometriosis and hormonal issues that caused miscarriage after miscarriage, and one Pregnancy was etopic and nearly killed her. Devout Catholics, they took it all as a sign from God that they were not meant to have Children "the old fashioned way", so they decided to adopt. They told the agency they signed up with they would take any chi...

Not yet released, Abby Johnsons book is shooting up the charts!
I received an advanced copy yesterday and have had a hard time putting it down. It’s excellent - compelling, intriguing, full of insight, and giving me a lot to think about. Here’s a description: Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, not long after assisting in an actual Abortion procedure for the first time, cross the line to join the Coalition for Life . Wh...

The Rape Victim as Criminal
This news story from The Saudi Gazette (hat tip: Vlad Tepes) is so fundamentally disturbing that I’ve put the entire text of the article below the jump. If you are sensitive to issues related to Rape and sexual violence, you may want to skip it: JEDDAH - A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year Prison term and 100 lashes for committing Adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus. The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed t...

Rise in abortions in China, young women targeted
XI'AN, China - The leaf-strewn median on Eternal Peace Road hides a grim secret: Numerous tiny fetuses lie in Unmarked Graves dug by women from the Abortion clinic across the street. The staff at the small clinic in the heart of this ancient city don't bury most of the fetuses — only those that have reached three or four months, when they clearly resemble miniature babies. "This big," says anesthesiologist Liu Jianmin, using her thumb and index finger to measure out the length of a l...

Thirty-Nine Percent of All New York City Pregnancies End in Abortion
Archbishop Timothy Dolan: not pleased. [WSJ] ...

BREAKING: Archbishop will join black leaders to decry NYCs skyrocketing abortions and pregnancy care center harassment
The gathering of the Religious Leaders… was prompted by the release last month of city Health Department statistics showing a 41% rate of Abortion overall in 2009, including a rate close to 60% for black women. This means 41% of all pregnancies in the NYC area end in abortion, with 60% of all black babies aborted. Pro-lifers consider NYC the Abortion capital of the US. According to the statistics linked above (Tables 4.13, 4.17) the number of abortions in NYC and the 5 boroughs totaled an ...

The new Babylon: 41% Of NYC Pregnancies End In Abortion
35 They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin. - Jeremiah 32 (NIV) Moleck was an Old Testament Ammonite god to which many, including Israelites, sacrificed their first born Children in return for a promise of prosperity. Today, many have been convinced in this...

41 Percent Of NYC Pregnancies Result In Abortion
Dolan gathered with other Religious Leaders on Thursday to draw attention to the city’s high Abortion rate. The city Health Department last month released statistics that showed 41 percent of pregnancies were terminated in 2009. While the numbers have declined in the last decade, the Religious Leaders said they are still too high. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Religious Leaders also criticized public schools Sex Education programs that include Condom distribution....

Do 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortions?
Drudge has this headlined, and Twitter is buzzing over the appalling statistic reported by ABC and CBS stations in New York City over the Abortion rate in 2009, as determined by the Big Apple’s Health Department.  For the year, New York City reported 214,454 Pregnancy outcomes, of which 126.774 were live births and just 407 were spontaneous terminations — miscarriages.  However, 87,273 Pregnancy outcomes were abortions (induced terminations), which constituted 41% of all pregnanc...

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Brazil brothers charged with burying father alive
RIO DE JANEIRO - Two brothers were charged with killing their father, a local Afro-Brazilian Religious Leader, by knocking him out with Sleeping Pills and then burying him alive, investigators told a Brazilian news website. Antonio Valente Filho, chief of police of Timon, in Maranhao state, told Globo TV's G1 website that the brothers, ages 18 and 21, confessed this week to planning the Murder. They told police their father was a violent man who drank too much and didn't accept their homos...