NEW YORK (WABC) -- 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," Archbishop Dolan said.
when a C-section is an option for time saving and back to work schedules and breast 'fixing', face lifting, tummy tucking are all accepted forms of surgery and so common place why wouldn't abortion fit right in there?
ahhhhh those reality shows Jersey Shore/Kardashians/teen moms/girls next door/girls gone wild etc......dont we just love our edumacating........
......we've come a long way baby.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
That is what America has come to equate to liberty - dead babies in the womb. Ahhh...God Bless the U.S.A. We have come a long way.
We have a systemic problem where we are aborting non-white minorities at an alarmingly disproportionate rate.(6 out of 10 ten end in abortion!) Where's the NAACP? Those so-called "black leaders" are more concerned about Don Imus saying, "nappy headed ho" on the radio than the abortion crisis in the community they supposedly represent. Those "black leaders" like Sharpton and Jackson are doing such a disservice to the black community with their divisive rhetoric preaching that they are victims of white oppression, rather than leading and teaching them to make less destructive personal choices to uplift their community.
This ideology is so twisted, that the black community actually applaud the abortion option!! Looks like Planned Parenthood and their birth control education has really worked for the minorities, huh?
I would like to see the statistics comparing the abortion rate to the actual birth rates in the black community. Are they actually pumping out more babies than aborting? Or visa versa?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I'm sure Margaret Sanger would be proud of those numbers
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
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