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[26] [22] [3] According to Cornell University constitutional law professor Michael C. Dorf, the amendment would protect the right to abortion in the state of New York by ensuring that prohibiting abortion would be an unconstitutional form of health-care discrimination because they would be "singling out one form of reproductive health care, and ...
The passage of Prop. 1 does not change current abortion law in the state, but it will protect against any future Republican attacks against the procedure, including attempts to pass waiting ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) – An amendment to the New York State Constitution that protects abortion rights passed on Tuesday. Proposition 1, also known as the Equal Rights Amendment, adds protections for ...
The vast majority of voters support Prop 1, and AAPI New Yorkers – myself included – know that protecting our rights and freedoms, including the right to abortion, is at stake this election ...
Citizen-initiated amendment: Proposition 140, would require ranked-choice voting to be used in general elections, and, contradicting Proposition 133, create nonpartisan blanket primaries. [ 54 ] Legislatively-referred statute : Proposition 311 , establishes a $20 fee on every conviction for a criminal offense, which would go to a $250,000 ...
On April 10, 1970, the New York Senate passed a law legalizing abortion until the 24th week of pregnancy. [14] Republican Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller signed the bill into law the next day. [ 15 ] At the time, New York State was a Republican "trifecta", meaning both chambers of the legislature and the governorship were Republican-controlled ...
In New York, abortion remains legal and accessible. We are lucky to live in a state that has leadership committed to protecting our reproductive rights. Now, we must make those protections permanent.
[4] [5] In addition, New York law recognized licensed physicians as the only medical providers able to perform abortions. [1] Abortion was also included as part of the penal law under homicide, and could be charged as a criminal offense prior to the RHA. [2] [non-primary source needed] The Reproductive Health Act and similar bills were proposed ...