New York City Has Extremely High Abortion Rate Despite Free Birth Control

Life News ^ | 8/11/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Amazingly, Deborah Kaplan, deputy commissioner of the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, told the business journal that the answer to the problem is more access to birth control.

“To me, the problem is access," she said. “If we improved access to contraceptives, there would be a reduction in abortion."

She couldn't be more wrong!

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[xtinct]

New York boasts the highest STD and AIDS rate also...

[LaineyDee]

They don’t get it. It’s not about birth control and access to it. It’s about moral degeneration and the ignorance it perpetuates.

[NativeNewYorker]

seems like a demographic issue. wonder what the rate is in places like detroit, philly, etc. you can’t go outside for 1/2 hour in nyc, and not see a way to get free contraceptives.

[Pikachu_Dad]

72 pregnancies end in abortion in New York for every 100 births.

WOAH.

So 72 out of every 172. Thats 42%

[Melpomene]

They think abortion is birth control. I lived in a sorority house in the early 90s. I can think of half a dozen girls without trying who quite unemotionally “just got it taken care of” — including my roommate of one semester.

[NativeNewYorker]

http://www.avert.org/usastatc.htm

miami, baltimore, and others ahead of nyc in aids rate...

[the invisib1e hand]

“To me, the problem is access," she said. “If we improved access to contraceptives, there would be a reduction in abortion."

blind leading the blind.

72%! That's as horrific as it is unbelievable.

[the invisib1e hand]

72 pregnancies end in abortion in New York for every 100 births....So 72 out of every 172. Thats 42%

Thanks for noticing that. That seems like a bizarre way for them to quote the statistic.

[the invisib1e hand]

72%I stand corrected.

[quadrant]

What cities have the highest abortion rates in the country?

[Morgan in Denver]

The good news is, liberal Democrats are killing themselves off at an alarming rate.

I don’t like abortions but the Democrats are following their plan of racial purity. I’m sure Democrats will be pushing abortions to Hispanics more than ever before.

[Paleo Conservative]

They think abortion is birth control. I lived in a sorority house in the early 90s. I can think of half a dozen girls without trying who quite unemotionally “just got it taken care of” — including my roommate of one semester.

Did some of them have fertility problems later?

[Melpomene]

I really don’t know. This may be surprising, but I didn’t keep up with them much.

[mbraynard]

DC actually has the highest rate in the nation. 1 in 50. This also has a racial component as the city is 57% black but 86% of the people with HIV/AIDS are black. Drug use, homosexuality, being on the ‘down low,’ etc.

[Paleo Conservative]

I really don’t know. This may be surprising, but I didn’t keep up with them much.

Not surprising but ironic. Supposedly one of the reasons for joining a fraternity or sorority is to make friends you'll maintain contact with for the rest of your life.