Posted on 11/07/2013 2:42:01 PM PST by NYer
NEW YORK CITY, November 6, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New York City has been called “the abortion capital of the world.” The city has some of the laxest restrictions and the highest abortion rate in the country, with 41 percent of its pregnancies ending in elective termination. According to New York Magazine, 10 percent of all U.S. abortions happen in the state of New York, and seven out of ten abortions in the state take place in New York City.
But those statistics aren’t high enough for newly elected Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, who claims the city is “underserved” by its dozens of abortion centers, and for whom increased access to abortion was a key part of his campaign platform.
De Blasio, who was elected Tuesday with 73 percent of the vote, has promised to partner with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers to help them expand their business in the city. He says he plans to help abortionists find neighborhoods that lack convenient clinic access and provide them with “city sponsored” space to set up shop.
Additionally, de Blasio has pledged to help abortionists wipe out their main competition – pro-life crisis pregnancy centers – that offer women financial and logistical help to either keep the babies they would otherwise be unable to afford, or place unwanted children with adoptive families.
De Blasio calls crisis pregnancy centers “sham” clinics. In his view, their refusal to perform abortions means they do not offer “legitimate health care.” He has pledged to continue the city’s appeal of a court order striking down a law aimed at closing down such centers.
In the event the court appeal fails, de Blasio says, he stands ready to “craft new regulations to prevent [crisis pregnancy] centers from masquerading as legitimate health care providers.”
To ensure there are enough abortionists to meet the city’s high demand, and fuel further expansion, de Blasio says he will continue to force doctors who train in city hospitals to perform abortions as a routine part of their training, a NARAL-backed program that started under outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg, and which de Blasio called “groundbreaking.”
Another key part of de Blasio’s plan to build up the abortion industry in his city is to make sure women can pay for the procedure. To that end, he has promised to use ObamaCare to expand state-funded abortion coverage to more New York City women.
De Blasio, a self-described “democratic socialist,” has taken some flak for illegal or otherwise unseemly trips he took during the height of the Cold War. As a student, he traveled to the Soviet Union, and he and his wife violated the travel ban to take their honeymoon in Cuba.
Most notably, he spent much of his early adulthood traveling back and forth to Nicaragua, where he supplied the Communist Sandinistas – whom he called “really inspirational” – and their allies with funds and food while working with the Quixote Center, a Maryland-based leftist Catholic group that once referred to American foreign policy opposing the Communist leadership in Nicaragua as “spreading terrorism.”
Although New York City is heavily Democratic, de Blasio’s election breaks a 20-year losing streak for the party in the mayoral race. He defeated Joe Lhota, a onetime adviser to former mayor Rudy Giulani who ran as a socially liberal, fiscally moderate Republican, and who also supports legalized abortion and gay “marriage.”
Hope and change...... that’s the ticket
Right after he gets back from his vacation to Puerto Rico...
I’m glad I don’t work in the city anymore. I’m 100% sure the commuter tax is on its way back, police will become hamstrung...the days when walking through Times Square meant avoiding hookers, dealers and piss in the streets are again around the bend
I hear on Wendy William show on Fox station that Mrs Billy Hazio was confirmed lesbian until she met the dude got married
I hear she really work for NAG gang back in da ay
Like how Wendy William said that word on the “Streets”
They wanted him, they got him.
I'm just wondering how we in Florida, and the other 47 states can stop any more of “them” from crossing our state borders in the future.(California plates are not welcome, either)
It's like MRSA or cancer: the bacteria/diseased cells multiply untill they kill the entire body.
Perhaps a citizen voucher system could be put in place?
Perhaps a fence?
Armed border controll?
Yes, I know what that means.
The USA is starkly and irreparably divided.
The civil division can be logically handled peacefully or forcibly.
Either way, it is now inevitable.
More abortions! Yeah! More death! More blood! More killing!
Maybe they should close sham mayors.
unbelievable.
the empire state is now really the empire state I guess.
if I were conservative i’d be packing up and heading out of that soon to be hell hole.
what...42% not high enough death rate?
lets be very clear too....the left HATES the lower classes...to them, life and society would be better if the lower class would not reproduce and be eliminated....why else would Warren want MORE abortion clinics in underserved areas...he’s not going for the Broadway actors guild....
What a sicko.
You’d think that New York City would have experienced an epiphany 11 years ago.
I guess they did. They fell in love with death.
If you remember NYC before Rudi Giulian, no one with any sense of self preservation would set foot there then, either. Welcome back Cotter.
So the communist wants to restrict #choice and ensure that as many minorities as possible are aborted before they are born or killed in violence, when older (his police policies.) But leftists call us racists for wanting to preserve the life, liberty, and property of all Americans, regardless of background. Got it.
LIbErals and Progressives Marxists killing themselves off? I fail to see a problem here.
Well New York you did not surprise anyone, but what is surprising is that you went from a rich moron in office to plain moron in office.
If the latest mayor gets his way your sewers will be clogged with aborted babies and the entire city will become a complete sewer.
YOU DESERVE WHATEVER HAPPENS WITHOUT ANY MERCEY.
[ My heart goes out to the conservative New Yorkers, but I don’t think it’s going to take long for New York to crash and burn under the thumb of this maggot. ]
That could be a blessing in disguise...
Only in the minds of very evil people they are. The spirit of the Antichrist is so alive right now I believe that the man Satan fully indwells could very well be alive right now.
I thought that doctors took an oath to first do no harm. Forcing them to kill infants in the womb doesn’t go against this? How about their freedom of religion? Are doctors now to be public servants at the whim of the almighty government? Where’s the separation?
I don’t hate to say it but New Yayk deserves what
they get. I do hate to say a lot of those worthless idiots
will run away to Texas and vote for the same low life
scum here. It wouldn’t be so bad if they stayed up there
and wallowed in their own slop but they have to spread their
disease here as well. Liberalism is a disease and
New Yayk is patient 0.
Liberalsim/Communism is once again documented to be a mental illness.
Condolences to any remaining conservatives in NYC.
that is what the voters wanted. If every decent person does not leave New York City, they will live to regret it. By the time this guy is through, everyone in the city will be living as animals.
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