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41 Percent of NYC Pregnancies End in Abortion
41 Percent of NYC Pregnancies End in Abortion
ABC New=
s
Web produced by Jennifer Matarese
Thursda=
y, January
06, 2011
=
NEW YORK (WABC=
) -- New and eye-opening statistics abo=
ut 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 pre=
gnancies
end in abortion. =
The rate for minorities is even hig=
her.
Both sides say the high a=
bortion
percentage is a crisis.
"If 41% of New
York babies are aborted, with the percentage even higher in th=
e 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 2=
009:
Specifically non-Hispanic=
Black's hav=
e a
59.8% abortion rate. (Blacks in NYC are aborting six out of every ten babie=
s)
Hispanics have a 41.3% abortion rate. (Hispanics in NYC are aborting four out of every ten b=
abies)
Asians have a 22.7% abortion rate.(Asians in NYC are aborting two out of every five babi=
es)
And non-Hispanic Whites have=
a 20.4%abortion=
rate.(Whites=
in NYC are
aborting two out of every five babies)
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 Parent=
hood
is also not happy about the (Falling) num=
bers (Of abortions in NYC and nationwide, So
in response Planned Parenthood has started) pushing (Abortion public) education.<=
/b>
"We believe in comprehensive sex education, which by the way does include abs=
tinence,
but abstinence by itself has been proven to be ineffective,"
Archbishop Dolan reiterat=
ed 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.