A study released by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reveals Chelsea to have the highest abortion rate in New York City, with 67.23 percent of pregnancies ending in abortion.
Jamaica, Central Harlem, Greenwich Village, and Bedford-Stuyvesant also ranked high on the list. The neighborhood with the lowest abortion rate is the Upper East Side, which also happens to be Manhattan’s safest neighborhood as well.
Many of us will recognize the areas with high abortion rates as the neighborhoods that have the greatest poverty in New York City. This data tells us that high abortion frequency is closely tied to poverty and the dysfunction of poverty. The statistics are staggering. So are the stats for crime, high school drop out, welfare, prostitution, government assistance and drug use.
