Posted on 01/06/2011 9:03:09 PM PST by Coleus
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 Bronx and among our African-American babies in the world, it is downright chilling," New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan said.
Broken down by race for 2009:
Specifically non-Hispanic Black's have a 59.8% abortion rate.
Hispanics have a 41.3% abortion rate.
Asians have a 22.7% abortion rate.
And non-Hispanic Whites have a 20.4% abortion rate.
The fact that 41% of all pregnancies in New York City end in abortion is not a secret and it's not anything new. In fact, things have been getting better over the past decade. Back in 1998, 12 years ago, the number was actually 46%.
Planned Parenthood is also not happy about the numbers, but pushes education. "We believe in comprehensive sex education, which by the way does include abstinence, but abstinence by itself has been proven to be ineffective,"
Archbishop Dolan reiterated the pro-abstinence, pro-life, anti-contraceptive position of the church. "My word, what have we done the last 30 years. There's candy bowls on people's desks with condoms, they're dropping them from airplanes, yet nothing seems to improve, so they've been on the wrong track here,"
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I’m glad to see the Black Catholics for Life group, and hope it grows. Their babies are being murdered even more than the rest of the population.
That’s a lot of emotional time bombs out there. The “parents” either shut down their minds or punish themselves with guilt. Either way, they become damaged goods.
I have coined a term for this:
AUTO-EUGENICS
Wow! I’m embarrased to admit I had no idea it’s been this high for this long. Just shocking.
>>Mass Murder<<
And nothing will change these numbers until “pro-choice” is excised from the English language. Abortionists are child molesters. Drilling a hole in a baby’s head and sucking out the brain qualifies as child molesting.
Bishops need to publicly excomminicate all the child molesters.
Participation in an abortion results in automatic excommunication.
Add me to the ping please
I’m speechless. Just speechless.
What ever happened to “safe, legal, and rare”?
>>Participation in an abortion results in automatic excommunication.<<
It’s the age-old question: If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one to hear it, does it make any noise.” So too with automatic excommunication. If no one hears about it, does anyone know?
The purpose of public excommunication is to expose the sinner in hopes that the sinner has a change of heart.
Another Holocaust of God's Children. And like the last one, the World yawns and shrugs its collective shoulders...
Horrific.
Sex Ed works....hahahaha
Maybe the public schools should teach kinds how to commit crimes....if they teach that as well as they teach Sex ed, crime rates should drop to zero
“Participation in an abortion results in automatic excommunication”.
Didn’t the Kennedy’s support abortion all these years? Aren’t they still Catholics in good standing?
Sorry, but I don’t buy it. When will the Pope start excommunicating Bishops and Cardinals and prominent people who are openly and publicly supporting abortion and homosexuality?
As long as these people are supporting the Catholic Church with money, he never will.
Most pro-aborts don’t care whether it’s a live human or not.
Like all other leftist “cover” terms,
they’ll keep using them until we demand, every time, that they define what they mean.
I am pro-choice when it comes to ice cream.
Is that what you mean? No?
Oh, you’re pro-choice when it comes to murdering the unborn.
Not surprised. I am sure that NARAL and Planned Parenthood are actually quite proud of this statistic and will use it in their fundraising letters. They are unscrupulous and consider abortion to be part of “women’s healthcare”, whatever that means.
PP is worse that unscrupulous it is evil, pure and simple.
In 2009:
I think the illiterate PP spokes-thing meant abstinence “education”. Of course, the only method that works is abstinence, if you practice it every single time! Birth control at some point fails. Just saying “no” does not exist in the vocabulary of many people.
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