Topic: NYC Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio pledges to open more abortion clinics

[LadyVirginia]

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.”

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[Pandora]

Evil is right.

De Blasio calls crisis pregnancy centers “sham” clinics. In his view, their refusal to perform abortions means they do not offer “legitimate health care.”

Planned Parenthood does not offer "legitimate health care" either; despite the propaganda about mammograms, they do not perform them, they refer.

And there's no "health" involved for the victim of abortion.  One dead + one wounded.

[Magnum]

Proverbs 6:12- 19

12 Worthless, wicked people go around telling lies. 13 They wink and make gestures to deceive you, 14 all the while planning evil in their perverted minds, stirring up trouble everywhere. 15 Because of this, disaster will strike them without warning, and they will be fatally wounded.

16-19 There are seven things that the Lord hates and cannot tolerate:

    A proud look,
    a lying tongue,
    hands that kill innocent people,
    a mind that thinks up wicked plans,
    feet that hurry off to do evil,
    a witness who tells one lie after another,
    and someone who stirs up trouble among friends.

[Pablo de Fleurs]

de Blasio's full bore Communist.

[Libertas]

I wouldn't mind if NYC was forcibly removed from the nation.  In fact I can think of several more prog-infested hellholes I'd like to abort.

[ToddF]

Without crossing any self imposed red lines, all I can say is...

Let's just say that next time, I don't see myself moved to write that $50 check to the Red Cross, and I'll leave it at that.

[oldcoastie6468]

de Blasio's full bore Communist.

WAY, WAY to the left of bambi.

[oldcoastie6468]

Without crossing any self imposed red lines, all I can say is...

Let's just say that next time, I don't see myself moved to write that $50 check to the Red Cross, and I'll leave it at that.

I haven't given anything to the Red Cross in over 38 years, after they came up to a forest fire we were fighting when I was in the Coast Guard and SOLD coffee to the firefighters.

The Salvation Army came up with their truck and gave the fire fighters anything they wanted and/or needed.

[Libertas]

Without crossing any self imposed red lines, all I can say is...

Let's just say that next time, I don't see myself moved to write that $50 check to the Red Cross, and I'll leave it at that.

I haven't given anything to the Red Cross in over 38 years, after they came up to a forest fire we were fighting when I was in the Coast Guard and SOLD coffee to the firefighters.

The Salvation Army came up with their truck and gave the fire fighters anything they wanted and/or needed.

Red Cross should have just stuck to blood...they got big for their britches and now think they are the end-all be-all of aid...and they've deep ties into the Ruling Class and the bureaucracy.

Salvation Army has largely stayed true to its calling.   

[LadyVirginia]

My opinion of the Red Cross was colored decades ago when they started advocating for school-based clinics.

[Pandora]

Without crossing any self imposed red lines, all I can say is...

Let's just say that next time, I don't see myself moved to write that $50 check to the Red Cross, and I'll leave it at that.

I haven't given anything to the Red Cross in over 38 years, after they came up to a forest fire we were fighting when I was in the Coast Guard and SOLD coffee to the firefighters.

The Salvation Army came up with their truck and gave the fire fighters anything they wanted and/or needed.

My Father hates them; they did the same thing to our guys during the Korean war, sold coffee and donuts.  He spits when the subject comes up.

A couple-few years ago, a couple of stories ran about the supposed reason they *had* to sell instead of give; something about the Brits (I think) complaining about the freebies.