By Jessica Easthope
More women have abortions in Kings County, New York than any other county in the United States. CompassCare’s newest facility is hoping to combat that grim statistic, one sonogram at a time.
The New York City area officially has four pro-life medical centers now that CompassCare opened its doors on March 5 on Flatbush Avenue in Flatlands, Brooklyn.
“Women in Brooklyn need an ethical alternative to abortion,” Jim Harden, the CEO of CompassCare tells Currents News. He says women are being fed lies about abortion, and CompassCare is not only there to protect mothers and their babies, but to protect the truth.
“The mission of CompassCare is that we’re a Christ centered agency dedicated to empowering men and women to erase the need for abortion by transforming their fear into confidence,” says NAME. “It means we’ve got to be able to meet women where they are. They’re floating down a propaganda cultural stream that is death. And we’ve got to meet her and speak her language.”
This Brooklyn site, CompassCare’s fifth in New York State, provides chemical abortion reversals, sonograms and testing. According to the latest data from the New York State Department of Health, there were more than 14,000 abortions performed in Brooklyn in 2022.
“In this area, Flatbush Avenue, and in the Bronx [are] where the women are the most underserved,” explains CompassCare’s vice president of patient services, Kathy Mauer. She says a presence in the Brooklyn neighborhood is vital to the pro-life cause, as the community is among the most vulnerable to abortion.
“Many of them will say, ‘I didn’t know you were here. I wish I had known this before the last time I had an abortion or the last time I was pregnant. Can I keep coming to you? Can I send my friends to you.’”
“They’re usually very, very appreciative.” she tells Currents News.
On March 5 Father Tom Vassellotti, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi-St. Blaise parish in Brooklyn came to bless the new site. He says his parish population feels the effects of abortion every day:
“I’m in a parish where we have a very high African American, African ancestry community. And it is outrageously high. The abortion rate is just absolutely heartbreaking. Something that’s just swept under the rug. It’s not talked about in this city, but this is a beacon of hope.”
New York City is known as the abortion capital of the country – there are at least 56 abortion providers in the metropolitan region. The New York State Department of Health reports that for every 100 black babies born in Brooklyn, 114 are aborted. Furthermore, for every 100 black babies born in Queens, 85 are aborted.
CompassCare plans to expand further into the Diocese of Brooklyn, deploying a mobile medical unit to Queens in 4 weeks.
For more information on abortion alternatives, go to compasscarecommunity.com.