April 02, 2006
Abortion Rampant in New York City
This article on abortions in New York stunned me:
For every 100 babies born in New York City, women had 74 abortions in 2004, according to newly released figures that reaffirm the city as the abortion capital of the country.
But it's not just New Yorkers that are being killed:
And abortions for out-of-town women performed in the city increased from 57 to 70 out of every 1,000 between 1996 and 2004, a subtle yet noticeable trend that experts say may reflect growing hurdles against the procedure in more conservative parts of the country.
These type of numbers should scare even abortion advocates. Almost half of all babies conceived in New York City were killed before they were born. What does this say about the decay and moral decadence of our culture? What does God think when a city kills almost half of the miraculous conceptions He creates there?
This article underlines one of the reasons for this - it's very slanted toward the pro-abortion position and seems to warn against the dangers of confirming Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But despite this, we may be seeing the tide turn in the rest of the country because of "The Roe Effect": South Dakota banned almost all abortions earlier this year and Mississippi looks to be on the same path. I personally believe the new Supreme Court is likely to allow these laws to stand, which means the potential for this to spread is high (let's hope Georgia jumps on this list!). At one point Planned Parenthood (the biggest abortion provider in the country) estimated that 22 states were at "high risk" of banning abortion with a pro-life Supreme Court. Needless to say New York wasn't one of those!
Much prayer and work is needed to get more states to follow the path of South Dakota. We're finally beginning to imagine an America where the most vunerable of our society can't be killed at the will of another.
God bless,
Jay
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Yet Rep. Carolyn Maloney of Manhattan is distressed at the low abortion rate nationwide and wants to keep CPCs from advertising, lest the abortion rate continue to plummet. God forbid the abortion industry collapse for lack of customers! That would be a bad thing!
Posted by: Christina at April 2, 2006 12:46 PMPray for us in South Dakota, that we can hold. All the fury of the pro-death movement has been unleashed in the oxymoronic Campaign for Healthy Families, that is trying to get the ban on the ballot to attempt to get it overturned.
They have no intention of abiding by a vote if it goes against them, either. Their next step will be to go to court, but they are trying to dissipate support for the ban and the legislators.
Ironically, the PP clinic here in Sioux Falls has to be staffed on a rotating schedule by "practitioners" from out of state. No doctor in the state will staff it.
Posted by: mallys at April 3, 2006 12:22 AM
