Stanek weekend question: Where are obvious places religious leaders can help lower NYCs soaring abortion rates?

39% of New York Pregnancies End in Abortion
You can’t say something witty about the cold-blooded Murder of babies: you can only look at the statistics, then quickly close your eyes and start praying. 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 o...

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...

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

How a Christian charity evolved into state-funded 'equality' campaigners
What would YWCA's founders think of today's equality dogma? (Photo: The Women's Library) The YWCA, formerly the Young Women’s Christian Association, has dropped its title after 156 years because “it no longer stands for who we are”. Instead the organisation will be known as “Platform 51”, a rather enigmatic-sounding name that could be a Wesley Snipes film, a band or the route to Hogwarts. In a sense the name doesn’t matter; what’s significant is how t

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 ...

Unsafe, Legal, and Not So Rare
Archbishop Timothy Dolan says, "Abortions in New York City should be 'rare.'" Those are the same words Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama use when trying to moderate their lethal stance on abortion. Obama, the most pro-choice politician in the history of America, said abortion should always be "safe [for whom?], legal, and rare" and that "families, not the government, should be the ones making the decision." Why, then, is a magnanimous government, headed by B...

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....

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...

Rise in abortions in China, young women targeted
This photo taken Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 shows an image of a three-month-old fetus during a sonogram scan for "Nancy" Yin at a clinic run by Marie Stopes International in Xi'an in central China's Shaanxi province. While comprehensive data are hard to come by, official figures show Abortions are increasing, and Chinese Media and experts say many if not most of the abortion-seekers are young, single women. The leaf-strewn median on Eternal Peace Road hides a grim secret: Numerous tiny fetuses lie i...

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...

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! ...

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 “...

It is a culture of child sexualisation, not Pakistani attitudes, that puts girls at risk
The ringleaders of the gang: Abid Saddique (left) and Mohammed Liaqat (Photo: PA) Is there a bigger hypocrite than Jack Straw, who following the Derby paedophile case has provoked outrage by saying on Newsnight there is a problem with Pakistani men and their attitude to white girls? He said: “These young men are in a western society, in any event, they act like any other young men, they’re fizzing and popping with Testosterone, they want some outlet for that, but Pakistani heritag...

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...

Teens say: Please give us decent sex ed! [VIDEO]
Why is the teen birthrate in the U.S. so high? One big reason: Sex ed in many schools sucks. In Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, some teens got so fed up that they put together a film about the dire need for real Sex Education. The High School Students have also launched a Facebook campaign and drawn up a list of demands, including "comprehensive Sexuality education" beginning in 9th grade and designated school Staffers to whom Students can go for free Condoms. Many teenagers are daunted by ...

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...

Babies in Trash Cans
Posted by JM Ashby Joining us tonight in the WTF File is -again- Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) who seems to have some sort of fanatical fetish for the subject of unwanted pregnancies and Abortion. The man just can't stop himself from blurting out the most ridiculous things that come to mind in his efforts to fearmonger over abortion, unwanted pregnancies, and non-traditional families. Here was Steve King just this past week on the subject of abortion: I often go into a High School auditorium or mee...

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 ...

'De-baptism' in Belgium in wake of child abuse scandal
"When you don't agree with an organisation that you never chose to join in the first place, the healthiest thing to do is to leave," Damien Spleeters told AFP. In this mainly Catholic country of 10 million people, the 24-year-old is among a growing crowd exasperated by church policy on issues such as AIDS, and angered by revelations last year of massive Child Abuse by priests and lay workers. After reports in April that the Bishop of Bruges had sexually abused his own nephew for 13 years, star...

Sean Strub on the Controversial Its Never Just HIV Ad
Herein lies the rub. Setting aside for a moment the critical issue of funding (especially in this economy), Bond’s blog points out that HIV/AIDS prevention messages don’t always work. Bond talks about his friendship with the late AIDS Activist Bob Hattoy who spoke about having AIDS during Clinton’s Democratic Convention in 1992. So surely Bond knew about HIV prevention before he contracted or became aware of having HIV in 2001. I knew Bob Hattoy, too, and I think he would be pr...

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...

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...

Experiencing self-esteem better than sex
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The desire to feel worthy and valuable -- self-esteem -- trumps almost any other pleasant activity such as sex or drinking Alcohol, U.S. researchers suggest. The researchers asked College Students to rate how much they wanted and liked various pleasant activities -- sex, favorite foods, drinking Alcohol, seeing a best friend, receiving a paycheck or self-esteem building experiences, such as receiving a good grade or receiving a compliment. "We found that self-este...

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