New York City’s Shocking Abortion Plan
Editorial of The New York Sun | June 15, 2019
No wonder New York City’s latest move in respect of abortion was advanced “under the radar,†as the New York Times put it. The plan being hatched to start allocating taxpayer funds for abortions for poor women who travel here from other states may not, at least at the moment, involve a lot of money. It is, though, a shocking escalation in the population wars.
The plan, according to the Times, which broke the story, is for the city to allocate $250,000 for abortions. The idea, the headline suggests, is to challenge conservative states that have been moving to curb abortions. The allocation from taxpayer funds would go to a charity, the New York Abortion Access Fund, that cuts checks directly to clinics to cover abortions for women who cannot pay.
“We heard the news on the abortion bans across the country,†Councilwoman Carlina Rivera is quoted by the Times as saying. “Many of us in New York felt helpless. We wanted to do more.†So she and her colleagues seem prepared to send tax collectors to raid the savings of even religious Catholics and Jews, among others, and force them to underwrite a practice that horrifies them.
“Abortion rights activists,†the Times reports, “believe that this is the first time that a city will allocate money specifically for abortions.â€
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