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,"
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
I invite everyone to participate in the new spring campaign for 40 Days for Life which begins March 9. Join in and pray at your local death mill.
Also, Abby Johnson, who formerly worked for Planned Parenthood and “escaped,” has written a compelling book called UNPLANNED, to be release January 11. It is sure to very devastating to PP since they sued to keep her silent (and lost!).
That is a point of contention, but I believe it relates only to the people seeking the procedure and the murderer who performs it.
The purpose of excommunication is to remove someone from union with the Church; the public matter would apply to a public act.
He argues, The normal outlet of remorse is to flee from wrong; of the need for confession, to admit what one has done; of atonement, to pay the debt; of reconciliation, to restore the bonds one has broken; and of justification, to get back in the right. But if the Furies are denied their payment in [their proper] coin, they exact it in whatever coin comes nearest, driving the wrongdoer's life yet further out of kilter. We flee not from wrong, but from thinking about it. We compulsively confess every detail of our story, except the morale. We punish ourselves again and again, offering every sacrifice except the one demanded. We simulate the restoration of broken intimacy, by seeking companions as guilty as ourselves. And we seek not to become just, but to justify ourselves.[9]
Budziszewski holds that the only way to break this vicious circle is to admit that one has done wrong and to repent, in reliance on the grace of God. Failure to break out of the vicious circle leads to a variety of moral pathologies in the individual, the culture, and the body politic.
Those are some amazing insights. I can't begin to count how many women have confided in me, out of the blue, that they've had an abortion, usually followed with some kind of excuse for it. But no one has ever confessed that they have, for instance, had an appendictomy. Those paragraphs from the wiki article really do explain that behavior.
Pro-Life bump
Placemark for pingout tomorrow.
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