{"id":166679,"date":"2017-05-31T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=166679"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:31:31","slug":"new-york-lawmakers-consider-legalizing-late-term-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-lawmakers-consider-legalizing-late-term-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"New York lawmakers consider legalizing late-term abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion<\/a> is thriving in the state of New York. There, the abortion rate is almost double that of the national average<\/a>, with 29 abortions for every 1,000 women. Twelve percent of the country’s abortions take place in New York alone. The Charlotte Lozier Institute’s Nora Sullivan reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

New York City has an even more startlingly high abortion rate with 41% of ongoing pregnancies being aborted<\/a> while, in the borough of the Bronx specifically, 48% of such pregnancies end in abortion<\/a>.\u00a0 An even more astounding statistic from the New York City Health Department shows that, among African Americans, 60% of pregnancies end by abortion.\u00a0 This means that for every 1,000 African American babies born alive in the City, 1,446 are aborted<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Restrictions on abortion are extremely light — no waiting periods, no parental consent laws — and abortion is covered by state taxpayer funds through Medicaid. But that’s not enough for Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has sought to make abortion even more<\/em> widespread in New York. In 2014, Gov. Cuomo made headlines by saying that pro-lifers are not welcome in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Evidently, New York’s lawmakers are still following his lead.<\/p>\n

Slate has revealed that a dangerous bill is working its way through the state legislature. Not only would the bill\u00a0legalize more late-term abortions<\/a>\u00a0than are already allowed in New York,\u00a0but it would also allow nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants to commit\u00a0some abortions.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0induction method, described in the video below by Dr. Anthony Levatino, is the most common late-term abortion procedure in the United States used at and after 25 weeks.\u00a0D&E abortions<\/a> are the most common option through 24 weeks.<\/p>\n