Posted on 08/11/2008 4:20:35 PM PDT by wagglebee
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- If there is any place in the nation women can get free or low-cost birth control, it's New York City. But a new report indicates the abortion rate in the nation's largest city is three times higher than the national average despite the easy access to birth control and contraception.
While a survey from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a part of Planned Parenthood, shows fewer than 20 percent of all pregnancies nationwide end in abortion, 72 pregnancies end in abortion in New York for every 100 births. http://www.lifenews.com/nat3624.html
More than 250 abortions are done every day in New York City at more than 200 locations, including abortion businesses and private doctor's offices.
New figures reported in the Crain's business journal show 90,157 were done in New York in 2006 -- which the business journal admitted showed "women are using abortion as their birth control method of choice."
Yet, abortion advocates repeatedly say abortions will decline if taxpayers are required to continue funding birth control and contraception at a high level and promote it extensively.
Free or low cost birth control and contraception, according to Crain's, is currently offered at through 59 publicly funded programs at 218 places in New York state, with most of those located in New York City or the greater area.
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."
Meanwhile, the taxpayer-funding of abortions on both the state and city level is draining tax dollars that could be used for education, police or other services.
Abortions cost the state of New York $16 million in Medicaid dollars every year and city taxpayers pay even more through the new York policy that provides free abortions to poor women at public facilities.
The high abortion rate also appears to have a racial component that concerns pro-life advocates.
Though black New Yorkers account for 24 percent of the city's total population, the 2006 city figures show they had 45 percent of the abortions there. That mirrors the national trend, according to AGI, which shows African-Americans have abortions at twice the rate of whites and Hispanics.
The Crain's report also indicates that New York's high abortion numbers have changed in that they no longer show women from across the northeast going there for abortions.
Now, 93 percent of the abortions done in New York City are on local residents.
“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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New York boasts the highest STD and AIDS rate also...
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.
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.
72 pregnancies end in abortion in New York for every 100 births.
WOAH.
So 72 out of every 172. Thats 42%
miami, baltimore, and others ahead of nyc in aids rate...
blind leading the blind.
72%! That's as horrific as it is unbelievable.
Thanks for noticing that. That seems like a bizarre way for them to quote the statistic.
What cities have the highest abortion rates in the country?
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.
Did some of them have fertility problems later?
I really don’t know. This may be surprising, but I didn’t keep up with them much.
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.
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.
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