Pretty staggering numbers, but no surprise. People often ask me why we do not do more to promote Lumina and "Entering Canaan" across the country and the world, the answer lies in the stats above. We are too busy right here in NY!

As a non for profit with one full time employee and a PTimer (although we have many wonderful volunteers), we are so busy with the work right here in NY  it is difficult to imagine doing more without more FT employees.

…so if you want us to continue to grow please donate and spread the word so we can reach more of those 90,000 women…

John Wilson, a guy who I love to talk with, has an op-ed in the New York Post about the abortion rate in New York City.

According to the city Health Department, 2008 saw 89,469
abortions performed in New York City — seven for every 10 live births.
Among black women, abortions out number live births by three to two.

Quinn: Speaker won’t discuss city’s tops-in-nation abortion rate.

In other words, the reality in New York is about as far as possible
from Bill Clinton’s proposition that abortion should be “safe, legal
and rare.”

Yet, of the 51 City Council members, only five — Republicans Eric
Ulrich and Dan Halloran and Democrats Peter Vallone Jr., James Sanders
and Danny Dromm, all of Queens — were willing to call that abortion
rate “too high.”

“I don’t think those numbers are meaningful,” said Upper East Side
Councilwoman Jessica Lappin. “I don’t tell people whether they should
have two kids, four kids or 10 kids.” One council aide even fretted
that a lower abortion rate would bankrupt the city.

Speaker Christine Quinn refused to answer at all, offering only the
canned response that “we can reduce the number of unintended
pregnancies . . . by expanding access to contraceptives and increasing
sex education.”
Interestingly, one dissenter from New York’s abortion taboo is former
state Sen. Franz Leichter — who sponsored the legalization bill when he
was in the Assembly in 1970. The abortion rate “is higher than anyone
wanted to see,” he says — and “my support for abortion rights . . . is
as strong as anyone’s.”

Why the silence? Perhaps it’s a concern that New York’s pro-choice
majority is not as solid as it seems, and that talking candidly about
the issue will only make matters worse.

Interesting points, but I don’t think the issue is the support for
abortion rights but rather the fiscal support for single pregnant
women. The question becomes how do we, as Catholics, support these
women not just in the effort to bring their child to term but to
actually support them.

The “sad truth” is that most actually don’t care. Most are unwilling
to put their own lives on the back burner to take up the cause of
injustice and poverty. If we all really cared, we’d all be welcoming
these people into our lives and making THEM a priority instead of our
own wants.

And I really wonder how many Republicans might be on board with that
in addition to their overwhelming support for life? And how many
democrats would have enough heart to say that abortion is murder
instead of saying that question of when life begins is “above their pay
grade” as President Obama said.

Perhaps God is continually calling all of us to open our eyes to see
the entire tree in our eye as opposed to the log that is usually there
when it comes to this question?

Read more of John’s column here:http://googlinggod.com/2010/07/02/nyc-had-nearly-90000-abortions-last-year/

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