On Wednesday, March 5th, New York-based pro-life medical network, CompassCare, celebrated the Grand Opening Press Conference and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony of a new state-of-the-art medical office at 1957 Flatbush Avenue (between Kings Highway and Lott Place in Flatlands), following the opening of another medical office in the Bronx the previous day. The new offices are the only medical alternative to abortion for women in each borough, the two largest abortion hubs in America. Through these offices, CompassCare is providing women millions of dollars’ worth of free, lifesaving medical care.
Members of the community, political leaders, local church pastors, members of other pro-life partnering organizations, staff and volunteers attended both openings. Pro-abortion politicians which have attacked pro-life groups in New York like CompassCare, such as Governor Kathy Hochul; Attorney General Letitia James; Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Yvette Clarke and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, were all invited but refused to attend or express gratitude for the hard work and generosity of the Church through CompassCare, providing their constituents with valued health care.
Meanwhile, after an interview with Real America’s Voice, the left-leaning outlet, Jezebel, attacked Rev. Jim Harden for encouraging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to enforce the Comstock Act — a move that would halt the illegal shipment of chemical abortion nationally.
Pastor Ron George said at the Flatlands grand opening, “We have seen women in Brooklyn who have been broken by abandonment, loneliness and the cares of this life — the cares of this world — and without hope. And we know hope comes from Christ. I see the service — the love — the desire [CompassCare] has to save babies and to help women, to truly help women. We are believing that broken women are going to come and find healing and restoration when they come through these doors.”
CompassCare CEO Rev. Harden credited humanitarian hero, Chris Slattery, with over 46,000 lives saved from abortion, presenting memorial plaques to be hung in each new office. At the time of Slattery’s passing in 2023, Harden said, “It is never popular to take a public stand against systemic injustice … I loved this about Chris. He was willing to offend in order to mend the gangrenous human wound of abortion. The truth is, either we believe all people are made in God’s image and are therefore equally valuable without qualification or equality is just a farcical tune to which fools dance.”
Harden also noted the conspicuous absence of James and Hochul, saying, “Gov. Hochul and Attorney General James should adopt a ‘see before you sue’ policy. We invited them both to the reopening of CompassCare’s firebombed medical office in Buffalo, Hochul’s hometown. Neither responded. We invited them and others to both grand openings this week, and only Hochul’s office responded, declining the invitation hours after the grand opening in The Bronx concluded. Yet both Hochul and James feel the need to attack CompassCare for providing free, lifesaving care to their own constituents. No matter. Women in the Bronx and Brooklyn now have an ethical alternative to abortion.”
According to Harden, “Hochul and James would rather harass pro-life pregnancy centers providing women with millions of dollars’ worth of free medical care and support rather than protect women from the serial malpractice of the abortion industry.”
Hochul is leveraging the recently passed Shield Law to obstruct inter-state investigations into illegal acts of NY abortionists, one of which is accused of harming women in Los Angeles and Texas via illegal chemical abortions. This has effectively turned NY into an abortion sanctuary state — flouting the Federal Comstock Act and many States’ laws. As LA Attorney General Murrill said of a young LA girl who was allegedly forced to take a chemical abortion provided by a NY abortionist, “This child was NOT this doctor’s patient. She never met her, saw her or knew anything about her. The child is a victim. [Hochul] is protecting a drug dealer who victimized a child.”
According to NY Vital Statistics, abortions are up nearly 25% in NYC in 2022 (the most recently reported year), and Brooklyn and The Bronx have the highest number of abortions of any counties in the nation.
Text and photos courtesy of CompassCare
