New York - Mayor de Blasio will have plenty of help in continuing to expand the tale of two cities through abortion.

The Real Inequality in New York City

by Anne Hendershott

While more than half of the pregnancies in many of New York City’s black and Hispanic neighborhoods end in death for the unborn child, only 6 percent of the pregnancies for women living on Manhattan’s affluent Upper East Side zip code of 10162 end in abortion. 

At the January 1 inauguration ceremony for New York City’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, the Rev. Frederick Lucas, pastor of the Brooklyn Community Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, invoked God’s help to “let the plantation called New York City be the city of God.” While he was echoing Mayor de Blasio’s concerns about inequality, many denounced the rhetoric. Even the editorial board at theNew York Times described the inauguration day speeches as “backward-looking, both graceless and smug.”

But, for those in the pro-life community, Rev. Lucas’s words may have had some resonance. Pro-lifers know that for the unborn, especially the unborn children of black women, New York City has become a cruel place where unwanted children are easily discarded. In fact, there are some New York City neighborhoods—including the Rev. Lucas’s own Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood—where many more babies are aborted each year than are allowed to be born.

An analysis of New York City abortion rates and ratios by zip code published by the Chiaroscuro Foundation—a non-profit research organization committed to “starting a conversation” about abortion rates in New York City—reveals that Bedford-Stuyvesant has the highest rates of abortion in Brooklyn with an abortion ratio of 59 percent. This means that there are 59 abortions to every 100 pregnancies in Rev. Lucas’s neighborhood. And, while that may seem high, the abortion ratios in Jamaica, Queens and Southeast Queens, and Central Harlem-Morningside Heights are all well over 60 percent.

New York is indeed a tale of two cities. While more than half of the pregnancies in many of New York City’s black and Hispanic neighborhoods end in death for the unborn child, only 6 percent of the pregnancies for women living on Manhattan’s affluent Upper East Side zip code of 10162 end in abortion. And, only 6.7 percent of all the pregnancies in the similarly affluent Lower Manhattan zip code of 10282 end similarly. Likewise, Brooklyn’s Borough Park zip code 11219 has an abortion ratio of 8.6 percent, and even the middle-class Long Island City-Astoria in Queens has a comparatively lower abortion ratio of 16.9 percent.


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Standing with the Women of New York City

http://www.billdeblasio.com/issues/standing-with-women

Standing Up for Reproductive Health. 

When Planned Parenthood came under attack from Republicans in Congress, Bill de Blasio fought to protect the vital organization’s funding and reputation. He joined with allies across the country to condemn the right wing’s smear tactics. As a City Council member, Bill de Blasio co-sponsored land- mark legislation to establish protective zones around reproductive health centers, and prevent harassment of women using their services.


Protect the Right to Choose

As mayor, Bill de Blasio will work to ensure that all women in New York City have access to quality reproductive health care. De Blasio will work with providers to ensure adequate protection for clinic access by ensuring close coordination with the NYPD, clinics and clinic access volunteers. In addition, he will continue New York City’s appeal of a judge’s order overturning New York’s local law to regulate sham crisis pregnancy centers, and if the law is ultimately struck down, he will work to craft new regulations to prevent these centers from masquerading as legitimate healthcare providers. Furthermore, Bill de Blasio will work with non-profit providers to identify neighborhoods underserved by reproductive health services and work with them to identify space in city sponsored development. De Blasio will also continue the Bloomberg administration’s groundbreaking abortion training initiative for medical residents at all HHC hospitals. And Bill de Blasio will work to increase access to the state Family Planning Benefits Program as the city works to support implementation of the Affordable Care act.